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Have you heard about politics before?
The ethics panel that lost its funding? Or am I thinking of a different part of the House? >

One of McCarthy's first moves as Speaker of the House: Gut the House Ethics Office.
By McCarthy now essentially saying "Go through the Ethics office", he's officially mocking the media, and establishing himself as an enabler/abetter of political corruption. >

He’s not mocking the media. He’s mocking his constituents, the constitution and the American people that depend on a functioning government. >

And if they could read they'd be so upset right now. >

They would also need to understand what it is theyre reading too, which is asking a lot of them. >


“If for some way when we go through Ethics that he has broken the law, then we will remove him,” McCarthy told reporters during a press conference just outside his office.

He already sounds doubtful in his wording, so I doubt he actually sticks to his word or does his usual spineless routine and shift the goalposts. >

Since House Republicans are trying to defang the Office of Congressional Ethics, he can stick to his word while simultaneously shifting the goal posts.
The MAGAdittohead caucus are forcing the Republican Party into a prisoner's dilemma but don't assume that that means that Kevin McCarthy is a prisoner. He benefits from this dysfunction by being able to deflect culpability to the reality TV shock jock opinion programmers that have been holding bipartisanship hostage since the Newt Gingrich inspired Contract with America of the '90s.
Unless he actually gets taken down by the federal elections Commission, I don't expect anything to happen. >

We’re going to be “going through some stuff” the next couple of years or more. It’s our punishment for the 2020 election. >

Lol “if?” >

anything he says is worth about as much as the shit i took last week and we all know it >

I for one don't know much about any of your shits >

So thats the standard now? Ethics is dead. >

what a magnificent shift of the goalposts. what the hell is the point of an ethics committee if the bar for punishment is being guilty of  crime? >

Didn't McCarthy murder the ethics committee? >

No, he just crippled the Office that makes the Committee function. >

Yeah, that ethics probe should take about 2 years to finish. >

But he won't if he didn't. Lying about literally everything else to get elected, 100% A-OK in the GOP's book. >

Didn’t they get rid of the ethics panel? And even if they did, I suppose it won’t have a lot to say until they actually finish appointing people to it…
What a goddamn joke Congress is… >

They torched the Office of Congressional Ethics, not the House Ethics Committee (very similar but different groups) >

Funny, most jobs will fire you if you lie on your resume.