Well, obviously, he rescued them from that Evil™ Check Forger! You’d know that if you didn’t hate puppies and love crime!
Followup:
One thing is clear after Thursday’s first hearing of the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government”: The weaponization panel’s weapon of choice will be the blunderbuss.
I don’t want to be conspiratorial about it, but House Republicans somehow turned Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Judiciary Committee hearing room, into the main ballroom of a QAnon convention. The witnesses — including world-class conspiracy purveyors Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Ivermectin) and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-Ukraine bioweapons labs) — might as well have been auditioning to guest-host “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
It is possible that, by random chance, one of the witnesses may have said something that is factually true, but any pellet of accuracy was lost amid all the errant slugs that ricocheted crazily out of their muzzles.
They revisited the “Russian collusion hoax” perpetrated by the “fake dossier,” Fusion GPS, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. They conjured an “engineered” Trump impeachment and a “coordinated effort” to “sabotage any public revelation of Hunter Biden’s laptop.” They alleged maltreatment of Jan. 6 insurrectionists and suggested that embedded federal agents provoked the crowd to attack the Capitol. They went back a decade to revive the debunked charge that a politically motivated Obama administration sicced the IRS on tea party groups.
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Good use of governmentin’ time!
Republicans run on a platform of “government doesn’t work” and they’re making sure of it.
Yeah, I’m starting to think they really might just be fucking crazy.
George Santos:
Was charged with giving Amish dog breeders bad checks for dogs
Told a Nerwsmax interviewer that he founded his Devolvder company in 2001, which, if his Congressional bio is to be believed (a big if), was when he was 12 or 13, “after he stepped away from his previous employment.”
Has been accused of groping a male staffer, less than six weeks after taking office,
The FBI is searching Mike Pence’s house for classified documents.
At this point, I’m pretty sure he’s now just conducting an experiment on the GOP: How far can I push this before they finally do something?
I’ll admit, as an academic question, it is interesting.
As long as they keep it contained to their side, as they mostly have, I’m fine with the in fighting.
Reading through to the next topic in that same op-ed (gift link) I found the following additional gem that is perfect for the thread. (hopefully its not too large a quote for the mods, but you really can’t cut any of it out and keep the meaning.)
First, the newly installed chairman of the House Oversight Committee said he would investigate Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his time as vice president, but not President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. Why? “The president has the authority to declassify documents,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Jan. 15. “The vice president does not.”
But that rationale blew up a few days later, when it emerged that former vice president Mike Pence also mishandled classified documents. So Comer approached reporters in the Capitol basement on Jan. 31 in an attempt to establish a new justification for probing Biden but not Trump. But Comer only succeeded in confusing himself. “We’re very concerned about who had access to Pence’s documents,” he said — then stopped. “I said Pence. I’m sorry. Let me start all over. We’re very concerned about who had access to Biden’s documents.” Moments later, he added: “I want to be very clear, I was talking about Biden.”
Comer tried again this week, returning to CNN for an interview with Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday. This time, he said he wasn’t looking into Trump’s documents because “there’s a special counsel looking into everything at Mar-a-Lago.”
Collins pointed out that “there’s a special counsel looking into Biden as well.”
Comer, trapped, grasped for a lifeline. “Pardon me for not having as much confidence in this special counsel appointed by [Attorney General] Merrick Garland on Joe Biden.”
Collins checked him again: “But he appointed the special counsel into Trump as well.”
“I’m against both special counsels!” blurted out Comer, contradicting his latest rationale, expressed mere seconds earlier, for probing Biden but not Trump.
More from Santos: He claims that after his confrontation with Mitt Romney, Kyrsten Sinema consoled him. Her office says that didn’t happen.
200 high school students in Alabama walk out after school administration told them that their Black History month presentation could not include anything prior to 1970.
Bravo, students!
This story and the one about the homeless vet are going to dog him for ages.
Hey, hey, hey! We’ll have none of that logic stuff here.
Hey, hey, hey! Again, we’ll have none of that logic stuff here. Also, those “great minds” didn’t flinch at all when their tan in a can hero demanded to have those very same documents returned to him.
Silly kids, everybody knows that history only goes back 50 years!
From walkout article:
GAH! Groomers! 
Woulda put this in the schadendfraude thread, myself.
Also, since he quit his committees, now he has a job where he doesn’t have to actually work. He must love that.
Those students should protest the teaching of white history before 1970 as well.
Remember when MTG wasn’t on any committees? You still heard about her, but it was the freak sideshow. Now that she’s on committees, she’s center ring of the Republican circus. The right has elected so many circus tents worth of clowns.
I thought it was only banana republics in which holding office in the legislature was a sinecure. How many of the Qliban party is it now that have been in office without any committee assignments?