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Why don’t Republicans try to pass something meaningful that will help citizens instead of going on these never ending witch hunts based on nothing more than vengeance, and the fact they have nothing meaningful to offer. What an absolute waste of money, governance, and opportunity
Hah
White House to Jim Jordan, James Comer: Sorry, but you have to restart your oversight requests
In respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.
“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. >

There’s a huge dig at the whole GOP in there too. The house hasn’t made their rules yet nor have they held a speaker vote yet. I just read that McCarthy has given in to pressure to lower the numbers for recall votes. >

What would lowering the number for recall votes do? >


I just read that McCarthy has given in to pressure to lower the numbers for recall votes.

I’d love to read it too. You have the citation for this and McCarthy agreeing to it? Are you talking about the “motion to vacate the chair” which allows the speaker to be removed? >

Gym Jordan usually likes to remain silent when there are allegations of wrongdoing. >

Does it make r/politics better for everyone if you refer to him as Gym Jordan?  I legit hate the dude, but are we all perpetually in 8th grade?  He was a wrestling coach for a team with a history of sexual abuse.  Is it a joke that they were abused? >

Nah it’s a reference to how he for sure knew about the sexual abuse and for sure for sure covered it up >

The GOP probably doesn't even see the hypocrisy here >

All they care about is having something to rage against. They don't care who or what. Rage is the whole point. >

That’s not true, sometimes it’s about the cruelty and hurting the right people >

To be fair, I get a kick out of being cruel to them in return. You can practically hear the angry fat shifting and recongealing around their hearts if you say General Sherman gave the South what they deserved. >

Lol! Amazing. >

Why would anyone answer a subpoena from a group that refuses to answer them? I’m lost! So should the Democrats hold there own investigation into Trumps children at the same time. Again this congress was elected to address immigration, crime and the economy and have no plans to do anything but obstruct. >

The GOP wants a vengeance tour.  They will hold everything up to get revenge on them getting a black eye from TFG .. >


getting a black eye from TFG

Oooh I got this one. The Football Game? >

The Farting Gremlin? >

That Fucking Guy™️ >

Dems should do the same in the Senate--run investigations of actual crimes committed by house gopers on 1/6 >

They're just hoping to complete their collection of Hunter Biden pics. >

Any bets on when the Hunter cock NFTs start circling the GOP turd bowl? >


And then who can forget all the bashful hateful rhetoric Trump had on numerous Democratic congress members all 4 years.

Baby that's just locker room talk. >


Republicans rage

It is, after all, a Thursday. >

Can you imagine how miserable these fucks are? They’re like suburbanites that overpay for a home because “it’s safe,” But then they buy a ton of guns and security cameras because they’re scared of thief’s. >

None of these fuckers at the federal level, with maybe the exception of MTG, are actually true believers in it.  It's just theatre.  It is how they are able to change what they are mad about every 5 minutes, because you have to keep moving topics to keep up with the right-wing anger machines.  There is no underlying structure to these people.  They are just there to keep and hold power and deliver the deregulation and tax cuts, and to keep that in with the judges.
If you think about Republicans as being "monkey wrenches thrown by corporate/Koch America to 1) keep taxes low 2) reduce regulation to help corps make more money 3) stymie progress by the Democratic Party on anything of actual substance/prevent Democrats from using the government for social(ist!) improvements" then, through that lens, the actions of the GOP make much more sense, at least to me.
If we don't treat them seriously, because they have nothing serious to offer, that's the easiest way to minimize them. >

Time for rightwing drama queens to start pissing away taxpayer money again.  It gets worse every time they do this. >

Amazing that Gym Jordan gets to investigate anybody. >

The next two years are going to be a shit show with these clowns in charge. >

Isn't this just “Benghazi” again? I mean, just dust off the old playbook because it sorta worked the first time? Remember McCarthy lost the seat to Ryan because he admitted that the Hillghazi hearings were simply designed to discredit her? Is it really just “own the libs?” This shit is ridiculous, we have problems, the world has problems, we got some shit to do! What about governing, fixing infrastructure, immigration, healthcare?by the time it all wears itself out I’ll be dead, but this is really WTF land we are in. I don’t give a fucking shit what Hunter Biden did, and I should but don’t care what Jared Kushner, Ivanka, Don Jr did either. We have the ability to fix this shit, can we at least start trying? >

Oh fuck, did you just use the G word in relation to Republicans? They don’t have a clue how to governor, at least in any aspect towards a functioning society. They didn’t teach that to their party members. At least since the ‘90s they have only operated as obstructionists. Their operating strategy is, “Don’t let the Dems succeed.” Followed by, “If we don’t try at all, we can’t get blamed for anything.” >

So, let me get this right.  Jordan is threatening to use the power of a subpoena….when he ignored the one the Jan 6 committee sent him?  Why would anyone submit to his subpoena, when he did not? >

Wow, they got some balls making a complaint about the White House obstructing an investigation after trump >

You can't obstruct something that hasn't begun yet. >

I know I should’ve been following this, but what exactly are they investigating? Personal email accounts used on a laptop from Benghazi or something? >


what exactly are they investigating?

Hunter Biden's penis. Thoroughly. That dick is hiding something important.
--Laptop Truthers >

They do seem to want it pretty bad. >

Republicans attempting to assert an authority before it's legally available to them is on point for their party.  Let 'em wait.  Then, after the "requests" show up in January, assert that they (GOP) have sent requests with no legislative purpose and tell them to go run to the Supreme Court for each request. >

Which is exactly what traitor Flynn did with Russia in 2016 >


Jordan has already sent a slew of letters to the administration outlining documents and interview requests he wants next year as Judiciary Committee chair, warning potential witnesses that while he’d prefer voluntary testimony, he’s willing to use a “compulsory process if necessary.” 

Says the guy who ignored his duty to testify about January 6. >

Yes Kevin, we got the requests. You'll be the first to know when we respond. No, I can't tell you exactly when that might be. But in the meanwhile enjoy those pictures of Hunter Biden's sweaty hog that you guys seem so taken with. Talk soon. Bye bye. >

Nothing gives them a nostalgia trip like seeing a big old dick that likely had some coke snorted off it once or twice. It reminds them of college. >

I'm too lazy to go through Gym and Comer's past tweets but I bet they defended the trump admin from Dem investigations. >

By God, I’d make them subpoena everything, and I’d reference Gym Jordan’s failure to respond to subpoenas as the reason I’m doing the same. >

Get lost. Lmao >

Didn't Jim refuse several congressional subpoena?  Why does he think other people are going to play by the rules he is ignoring? >

Get out your tiny violins and rosin up the bow >

Any party who is this tone deaf on the reality of their own precariousness deserves to be allowed to implode as loudly and ingloriously as they seem determined to attain.
Idiots. 
(grabs popcorn) >

To be clear, they are simply making the Republicans follow the rules.   As Santos is proving, Republicans don't got no rules. >

Investigate Biden.... for what, exactly...? Do they even know? >

Several years of Whitewater turned up a blowjob. Who knows how deep the depravity goes here. >

The bj didn’t even happen until well after the investigation was into about its fourth dead end. Classic grasping at straws. >

There will be zero sympathy for the republicans while democrats slow the process down. After what has happened (and continues to this day), I don't give a damn anymore.  They are going to try and paint democrats as this evil entity because they do not plan on bending over. Well, republicans you lost all credibility and ground to stand on when you chose to defend insurectionist and corruption over this country.
Oh and remember how trump repeatedly attempted to and failed to use executive privilege because you know... he's not the president anymore. Well Biden can and I'm sure if needed, he will. Ask me 2 years ago I would javelin said be transparent as possible but republicans do not care to govern at all, so why bother giving them any benefit of the doubt. >

Don't go to a single subpoena.  If the court finally orders you, go and say "executive privilege" to everything. >

Yeah no more Hillary level professionalism… 11 hour hero is what she was.
Looking at her like she was a criminal but all the while those guys were just that … criminals >

Kevin doesn’t have votes and the GOP wants to investigate. It’s going to be a shit show so let them try whatever they want >

And this is coming from the same Republican Party that didn’t want to investigate the 1/6/21 attack on the Capitol.
The same Republicans that didn’t want to investigate Donald Trump’s administration into its role in the attack on the capital. 
Take a good look America, The republican party has no intentions of ever changing its colors. it’s business as usual with them. >

After 4 years of executive privilege bullshit coming from their golden cow, they are outraged? Every single one of them can go fuck themselves. >

Jordan, who refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 committee this term, is going to try to subpoena Democrats to talk about Hunter’s laptop or the end of the war in Afghanistan? 
I don’t know which is thicker, the irony or the hypocrisy. >

Let’s be honest, if you don’t give republicans something to rage about, they make something up. >

The Republicans, had they any integrity, would be investigating themselves. >

“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. >

The GOP has got to be absolutely tone deaf! Did they not get the message from voters from the last election??? We do not want political theater, we do not want their crazies running the show, we want our government to function correctly! 
McCarthy is going to wear this shit show, and may they lose in droves come 2024. They simply can’t be trusted in Ny position any more. >

This is how the government is supposed to function.     Dysfunctional,  constant gridlock and out of our way so we can live without the psychopath shaking us down.   
The entire system is full of monsters.    You battle them against each other,  so they don’t come after you.     That’s always been the system.  
Billions of stolen FTX money given to the mafia political parties,  not one penny will be returned. >

There are multiple articles about political parties / PACs and media entities returning the donations they received from FTX (largely from one side of the political spectrum but I admit I haven’t looked at every single instance) so am a bit confused what you’re referencing at that point with your thinly veiled ‘both sides’ schtick >

Title is misinformation. White house isn’t slowing shit. GOP doesn’t have the power yet. >

Dishonest headlines like that are part of the “both sides” problem. >

And they will rage about it with a straight face, completely ignoring that trump literally just ignored every subpoena he got while in office. 
Hasn’t even been a full week since the subpoena against him was dropped because the investigation finished, and they’ve already started the hypocrisy dramatics. 
At least I know that in their religion there’s a special place in the seven rings of hell for them. >

New headline: clownish, clown shoes upset that there are rules. >

The same Jim Jordan that refused to appear before the Jan 6 committee? >

Oh, that’s rich! Republican’ts are the undisputed masters of obstructing oversight activities. Clutch those pearls, you despicable assholes. Jim Jordan, himself, ignored a subpoena from the Jan 6 Committee, and HE’S complaint about obstruction of oversight. Bwa ha ha ha ha! >

The GOP can keep up these charades and lose more votes if they want… the GOP looks like a bunch of bankrupt gambling addicts. >

Quid pro quo muthafukas... >

Karma comes to mind >

Flexing their hypocrisy real hard. >

My opinion on GOP House Committee’s is they’re like mushrooms. 
Feed em shit and keep em in the dark. >

I don’t care about their rage against things like this. I only care if Republicans are interested in good governance, and you should too. The only thing that is going to get republicans to do hood things for the American people is if we all demand it from them. >

Their investigations are a bogus waste of taxpayer money for cheap political theater and an excuse for why they never deliver anything important for the citizens they are sworn to represent. >

How can any serious person hear what Republicans are saying and NOT break out into uncontrollable laughter? >

The White House is really saving them from themselves. they should be thanking them >

Republicans crying about this administration citing the Trump administration’s own legal opinions. In other words, they are getting a taste of their own medicine and they don’t like it.