Thursday, February 09, 2023

Republicans Talking To Themselves

Yes, it’s a Gym Jordan joint about the “weaponization” of government. So their witnesses were are two old, white GOP Senators. Who, unsurprisingly, aren’t making any sense. Sure, Senator from Wisconsin, why wouldn’t we believe you? What I really don’t understand: is why the House GOP keeps giving Raskin a public platform. Not that I don’t appreciate how Raskin uses it to bring up the work of the J6 Committee over and over again. But the GOP really doesn’t know what to do with the car now that they’ve caught it.
"Dear colleagues, your subcommittee can absolutely become part of a proud history of serious bipartisan oversight stretching from the Teapot Dome investigation to the Boeing investigation, into the Watergate hearings, to the tobacco hearings, to the select committee on the Jan. 6 attack," Raskin said. "Or you could take oversight down a very dark alley filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation, a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal." 
"Millions of Americans already fear that representation is the right name for the special subcommittee," he continued, "not because representation of the government is its targets, but because weaponization of the government is its purpose. What's in a name? Well, everything is. The autonym of the opposition subcommittee constitute a case of pure psychological protection. When former president Donald Trump in his followers accused you of doing something, they are usually telling you exactly what their own plans are. By establishing a select subcommittee on weaponization, they are telling us that Donald Trump's followers who obviously control the subcommittee will continue weaponizing any part of the government they can get their hands on to attack their enemies defined as anyone who stands in the way of their quest for power." 
"To be clear, that's not an exclusively partisan operation," Raskin added. "They've proven that they will weaponize the government not just against other parties, but against anyone who refuses to bend to the will and win of one Donald Trump, whether that's a lifelong Republican state election official, like Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, foreign head of states like president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or a political movement, like Black Lives Matter, a once-close personal friend and ally of Trump's, like his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for many years, or even a sycophantic Trump appointee, a lifelong Republican like attorney general William Barr. If these people break from the habits of lying and lawlessness that define life as a camp follower in the cult of Donald Trump, if the weaponize campaign isn't partisan, it's entirely political." 
"It's got an overriding electoral focus," Raskin concluded. "You know what it is. It's all about restoring Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president, to the office he lost by 7 million votes in 2020 and tried to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection against our constitutional order on Jan. 6, 2021."
See what I mean?

Anyway, back at the hearing:
Oh, it's worse than that: And remember when I said the hearsay rule doesn’t apply to Congressional hearings? None of the rules of evidence do: There’s a reason rules of evidence are complicated. It keeps the bullshit out. It also keeps random dweebs from saying whatever they want and calling it truth. At least in a government hearing, where we expect some standard above “crazy guy on the street corner muttering to himself.”

But this is a Gym Jordan joint.
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