Republican says smoking of cigars inside the Capitol Is "about freedom," and definitely not about being a belligerent asshole. Republican Says Smoking of Cigars Inside the Capitol Is 'About Freedom' https://www.newsweek.com/republican...side-capitol-about-freedom-troy-nehls-1773789
The White House is just sitting back, getting out the popcorn, and getting ready to enjoy the show. Nothing has made the Biden administration happier than watching the MAGA clowns obtain key assignments after McCarthy folded to their demands to be the majority House leader. A move that ensures that the GOP majority House will not only be inoperable but a complete national laughing stock for complete failure. Biden White House feeling 'unbridled glee' at seeing MAGA diehards getting key committee spots: report https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...committee-spots-report/ar-AA16v5J1?li=BBnb7Kz Multiple far-right Republicans -- including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) -- have landed coveted spots on the House Oversight Committee. However, Politico reports that members of President Joe Biden's White House appear to be far from intimidated and are actually feeling "unbridled glee" at these appointments. "Privately, the president’s aides sent texts to one another with digital high fives and likened their apparent luck to drawing an inside straight," the publication writes. "One White House ally called it a 'political gift.'" Another Biden administration official told Politico that the MAGA House Oversight Committee members are “extreme and crazy, yes, and easy to dunk on in the media," which could benefit the White House politically. While some House Democrats were apprehensive about the MAGA allies being so much in the national spotlight, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said that it would make the GOP caucus appear unhinged. "“The Republicans have brought the QAnon caucus to the Oversight Committee, and you can expect them to run with the most ludicrous conspiracy theories one can ever imagine,” he said. “And I think our job is very simple, which is to make sure that we ground our work and any of these investigations in reality.”
McCarthy announces hearings to investigate the government. This is not a repeat from 1954. Or is it? McCarthy names GOP members to run sweeping investigative panel https://www.politico.com/news/2023/...t-weaponization-subcommittee-members-00079341
The origins of a rightwing conspiracy -- how a post from one rando twitter user becomes a congressional investigation in five days. A thread -
I tried to tell you but you didn't believe me.---Now, take a look at this article-- Biden’s new debt ceiling problem: Wall Street’s not freaking out https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/30/biden-debt-ceiling-problem-wall-street-00079957 The Biden administration warns of catastrophe if Congress fails to raise the government’s borrowing limit in the coming months. But some Wall Street executives and analysts are starting to break from that script. A number of prominent financial experts at Bank of America, Barclays and other major firms are confident that the U.S. will avert a global market meltdown by continuing to pay its bondholders if the Treasury Department crosses the threshold where it can’t cover all its other bills. They think the U.S. can do so by withholding funds for things like benefits owed to individual Americans or payments to firms doing business with the government.
The GOP does not think you need civil rights or civil liberties. Just remember that next time you cast your ballot. Republican House Oversight Committee disbands Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...ommittee-on-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties/
The first hour of a GOP-led House committee's meeting was a food fight over saying the Pledge of Allegiance https://news.yahoo.com/first-hour-gop-led-house-212024737.html
Republicians want this Pledge of Allegiance to the flag Democrats want this Pledge of Allegiance to the flag