Republican House Take Over
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Kevin McCarthy breaks silence with a simple answer for releasing controversial Jan 6 tapes
“I promised,” he told The New York Times during a brief phone interview on Wednesday. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.”
Anyone who opposes release of the J6 footage is afraid of the truth that will be exposed. Now the whole truth will be revealed and that scares the hell out of them. They better secure their lawyers now, because the crap is about to hit the fan.
Hijinx
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If only that were true. Nothing weakens our Democracy as badly as the way the democrats have reacted to Jan.6.
They placed people in jail without trial, without bail, destroyed these people's lives for a political trick. Now they are frightened that the truth will come out. A truth that half of America already knows and the other half ignores.
House ethics panel to further investigate Ocasio-Cortez over Met Gala gifts
The ethics report said Ocasio-Cortez "appears to have now paid for the rental value of the attire she wore to the Met Gala and for the goods and services she and her partner received in connection with this September 2021 event." However, it said, the payment wasn't made until after the ethics office contacted her for its review.
If it weren't for the ethics review, the report said, "it appears that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez may not have paid for several thousands of dollars’ worth of goods and services provided to her."
FBI politicized J6 cases, targeted pro-lifers, whistleblowers tell House panel on weaponization
FBI whistleblower Garret O'Boyle testified that he was suspended by the bureau in retaliation for making protected disclosures to Congress.
O'Boyle was suspended, he recounted, as his family was preparing to move from Kansas to Virginia for a job transfer within the bureau. Their old home had been sold, and they were waiting to close on their new one.
As part of the transfer, the FBI paid for the moving company to pack and ship the family's belongings to Virginia. After the possessions were shipped, however, O'Boyle was denied access to them for over a month, forcing the O'Boyles to borrow coats and warm clothes for their children from family. Ultimately, he said, he had to pay around $10,000 to retrieve the family's belongings from bureau storage.
"I thought the FBI was being weaponized against agents or anybody who wanted to step forward and talk about malfeasance inside the agency prior to this," O'Boyle testified. "But now, after what has happened to me, I don't think I can ever be convinced that it's anything different than that."
The J6 Committee Lied to America About Representative Loudermilk, When Will Speaker McCarthy Punish the Liars?
One of the many egregious lies was the slander of Georgia Representative Barry Loudermilk.
In March 2021, one of the prosecutors in the coming show trials, Michael Sherwin, claimed that the government investigators who had skipped completely over Ray Epps and the mysterious pipe-bomber were now investigating really important stuff like the possibility that some of the demonstrators may have legally visited the US Capitol.
On May 19, 2022, the leadership of the silly little kangaroo court investigating the “insurrection” on January 6 sent Rep. Loudermilk a letter alleging that he led a “reconnaissance” tour of the Capitol on January 5 and demanding answers.
That's my photo of nhboy.
Democrats Attempt to Discredit Weaponization Committee
“These individuals have been determined not to be whistleblowers,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said. “These are not whistleblowers,” she added, noting how some of their allegations had been reviewed and rejected by certain agencies, including the FBI itself.
“The law has not determined they are whistleblowers,” ranking member Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) added.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) called the hearing “a partisan political stunt that is more interested in attacking the FBI than helping whistleblowers.”
“In Texas we would just say that this is just a lot of hot air blowing here and it ain’t a whistleblower,” Garcia said.
Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen, all of whom had their security clearances revoked or suspended by the FBI, testified that they had witnessed anti-conservative bias at the bureau, brought it to the attention of their supervisors and later Congress, and were retaliated against because of it.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), a longtime oversight hawk who authored the most recent successful whistleblower legislation in 2012, tore into the Democrats for doubting the witnesses’ whistleblower status.
“They’re missing the point. Each of these whistleblowers came forward with what is clearly protected disclosure,” Issa said.
The House Weaponization Committee shone a big bright light on a concerning action by Bank of America that should concern all Americans. Now, the House GOP is taking action.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said they would be investigating what they’d learned from whistleblower testimony — how Bank of America, without any legal process from the FBI, turned over to the FBI a list of all its customers who purchased anything within the neighborhood of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021. That means they turned over the private information of thousands of Americans to the FBI—without any evidence that they were involved in a crime, and did it without even the FBI asking for it by way of subpoena.
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said they would be investigating what they’d learned from whistleblower testimony — how Bank of America, without any legal process from the FBI, turned over to the FBI a list of all its customers who purchased anything within the neighborhood of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021. That means they turned over the private information of thousands of Americans to the FBI—without any evidence that they were involved in a crime, and did it without even the FBI asking for it by way of subpoena.
The outline of the deal includes clawing back tens of billions of dollars in unspent COVID-19 stimulus funds and streamlining the regulatory permitting process for energy projects with the first major reform to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) since 1982, according to the House GOP document.
Most Republicans and some Democrats have complained NEPA’s red tape has been slowing energy production in America, from oil and gas drilling to new clean energy projects.
The agreement also reduces funding for the hiring of additional Internal Revenue Service agents by eliminating the fiscal year 2023 staff funding request for new agents.
It would cut $400 million from the Centers for Disease Control's "Global Health Fund" that House GOP leaders have said sends "taxpayer money to China and billions in other programs for the largest total rescissions package in history."
Student loan borrowers would also have to start repaying their student loan debts. Student loan payments were paused throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also imposes a work requirement for some able bodied food stamp and welfare recipients, which the GOP memo boasts will “save taxpayer dollars, get Americans back to work.”
The agreement is also expected to include a formal rejection of Biden's "proposed new tax increases, new government mandates, and new federal programs."
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Most Republicans and some Democrats have complained NEPA’s red tape has been slowing energy production in America, from oil and gas drilling to new clean energy projects.
The agreement also reduces funding for the hiring of additional Internal Revenue Service agents by eliminating the fiscal year 2023 staff funding request for new agents.
It would cut $400 million from the Centers for Disease Control's "Global Health Fund" that House GOP leaders have said sends "taxpayer money to China and billions in other programs for the largest total rescissions package in history."
Student loan borrowers would also have to start repaying their student loan debts. Student loan payments were paused throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
It also imposes a work requirement for some able bodied food stamp and welfare recipients, which the GOP memo boasts will “save taxpayer dollars, get Americans back to work.”
The agreement is also expected to include a formal rejection of Biden's "proposed new tax increases, new government mandates, and new federal programs."
McCarthy-Biden debt deal eliminates unspent COVID funds, blocks IRS expansion and reforms permitting
Framework also imposes new work requirements for welfare recipients and prohibits any new taxes.
So far I'm unimpressed with the "Republican takeover". Chips are flying but no wood is being cut. They talk a lot about what they're "gonna" do, and I'd like them to get off their dead asses and actually DO it. If they were our employees we'd have fired them a long time ago....oh...wait...they ARE our employees!
McCarthy isn't much of a leader. He seems more like a toady than anything. But honestly most of those turds have forgotten that they're there to represent their district/state and not the DC establishment.
They seem to be more interested in getting rid of Trump than doing anything to benefit the lives of the American people. If they spent half the time and energy actually representing us as they do whining about Trump on talk shows they could rule the freaking world.
I'd say I'm disappointed but I honestly didn't expect any different from them.
McCarthy isn't much of a leader. He seems more like a toady than anything. But honestly most of those turds have forgotten that they're there to represent their district/state and not the DC establishment.
They seem to be more interested in getting rid of Trump than doing anything to benefit the lives of the American people. If they spent half the time and energy actually representing us as they do whining about Trump on talk shows they could rule the freaking world.
I'd say I'm disappointed but I honestly didn't expect any different from them.
SamSpade
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You’re right and forty years ago, I chose to register Democrat because a conservative Democrat was very good at suggesting interesting ideas. Republicans mostly just talked a game because they were a permanent minority.
Right now I’m just glad the Dems AREN’T in there proposing stupid ass woke bills. I can breathe easy for two years.