John Deering for January 17, 2023

So gross!

The repugnant repubs have no problem giving security clearance to a guy who they have no idea where he got his money from.

They don’t care if he’s truthful. They just want him to vote as they do.

He is very welcome in their club, a club that I want no part of.

Yes, America, THIS is today’s Republican Party, the party of LIARS, FRAUDS, CON-ARTISTS, and OUTRIGHT FAKES.

Come on folks, Santos did a great job as Brazil’s Minister of Finance, just check the testimonials on his web site.

I read that in 2019 he was using a different name. Presumably he has to provide a SS number for his paycheck. That would provide an interesting search.

The insurrection coalition.

Jim Jordan has already laid out his ‘roadmap’ to push FBI conspiracy theories

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-OH) plans to work with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to “weaponize” the House into a body that conducts “years of hyperpartisan investigations” for political messaging, warned former GOP communications official Amanda Carpenter in a new article for The Bulwark published on Tuesday. “In one of his first acts as speaker, McCarthy called a vote to create a new panel with sprawling authority to investigate how conservatives are mistreated, and every Republican voted in favor. It will have subpoena power and the ability to obtain classified information and review ongoing criminal probes, including those related to January 6th,” wrote Carpenter. “And whom has McCarthy tapped to lead this partisan initiative? Jim Jordan, the hyperpartisan Ohio congressman who also chairs the Judiciary Committee, of which this new panel is a subcommittee.” Jordan is not only unqualified to lead a serious investigation, Carpenter argued, but he is also one of the people facing investigation for his role in the plot to overturn the election in the first place.

‘Don’t be ugly!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert quarrel noisily in House restroom

Tensions between Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) boiled over into a confrontation in a women’s restroom at the U.S. Capitol. The squabble took place Jan. 3, on the first day of the new Congress, in the House speaker’s lobby ladies’ room, and sources told The Daily Beast the lawmakers feuded over their perceived loyalty to Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as he tried to secure enough votes to become House speaker.

‘Safety threat’ George Santos must be removed from Congress immediately: NY Republican

A local Republican official from Long Island told CNN’s Kate Bolduan that she believes Rep. George Santos (R-NY) represents a “security threat” in Congress and cannot be allowed to remain in office. Jennifer DeSena, a town supervisor for North Hempstead, is one of many Republicans from the area calling on Santos to resign for his serial lies about his personal background and shady financial backings — and, she made clear, it doesn’t matter whether Santos leaving would jeopardize Republicans’ narrow House majority.

Brazil.It’s full of nuts.

MTG confronted Boebert in the bathroom, accusing her of taking millions from McCarthy but refusing to vote for him

Gaetz will hold onto any gas stove under 18 years of age.

Great characatures

Deport him.

Remember … McCarthy NEEDS their ‘support!’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wields more power in the new Congress than ever before, stated, “you’ve heard Leader McCarthy say publicly that he doesn’t see very good odds for much funding for Ukraine going forward in a Republican-controlled conference.”

Speaker at Miami-Dade meeting: ‘Long live Trump, long live Putin, long live DeSantis’

Activist Rafael Antonio Gomez praised former U.S. President Donald Trump®, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis® at a Miami-Dade commissioners meeting on Tuesday. Gomez began by telling the commissioners he did not know what the agenda item was, but they should vote against it.

Jan 6 defendant stabbed in the nose during jail fight over Tucker Carlson show

Department of Justice has charged nearly 1,000 January 6 suspects

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/january-6-tucker-carlson-stabbed-b2263411.html

Khanna warns House GOP wants to ‘hijack the entire US economy’ to cut Social Security

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California said Tuesday that House Republicans are threatening to “hijack the entire U.S. economy” and “subject it to collapse” in pursuit of cuts to Social Security and other right-wing policy goals, a warning that came as the Treasury Department prepared to take emergency measures to prevent the U.S. from breaching the debt ceiling.“This is what the Freedom Caucus wants,” Khanna said in an appearance on Democracy Now!, referring to the far-right faction of House Republicans pushing to use the debt ceiling as leverage to enact deep cuts to federal spending—a strategy that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has embraced.

‘I know it was you’: House Republican explodes at Kevin McCarthy over lost chairmanship

“You bleeped me. I know it was you, you whipped against me,” Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) told Speaker McCarthy, according to Puck.

Rep. Buchanan “exploded after losing Ways & Means to a McCarthy ally, fueling anxiety that he could retire out of pique—and that McCarthy’s favor trading has eroded his narrow margin of support.”

The chairmanship ultimately went to “the 42-year-old Speaker’s pet Jason Smith, potentially reducing Kevin McCarthy’s margin of error from four votes to three to pass critical partisan legislation,” Puck reports.

The red slime…

The new Confederacy of Dunces.

Turns out his last name isn’t “Santos.” It isn’t “Devolder,” either. It’s “Kardashian.”

Republicans hand massive tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations while they push to increase an already bloated military budget. Bush 43 is the only president to start wars and cut taxes, and those should not have been started in the first place. They greatly increase debt / deficit, but if the president is a Repib, then “deficits don’t matter” (per Cheney). When a Dem becomes president, the Repubs start screaming about the debt and deficit THEY inflated.

The Repub standoff in 2011 caused the U.S. to pay higher borrowing costs, and potentially hurt the credit rating for the first time in history.

The 2017 tax cuts were used by companies to buy back their stock, just like they said they would. The execs didn’t invest in their companies or their employees; investments in the company and people could have put the U.S. in a better position before the pandemic.

Now that a Dem is president, the debt and deficit are important. Rather than reversing the 2017 tax cuts, the Repubs want to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Matt Schlapp’s wife engaged in conspiracy to undermine sexual assault allegation against him: lawsuit

Longtime Republican lobbyist and American Conservative Union director Matt Schlapp engaged in defamation to try to bury a sexual assault allegation against him — and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, engaged in a conspiracy to help him do so, according to a new defamation suit reported on Tuesday by The New York Times. The original allegation, first reported two weeks ago, is that Schlapp aggressively and non-consensually grabbed the crotch of a male staffer for Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign, who had been tasked with acting as Schlapp’s driver — and that the campaign took the staffer, who has filed anonymously to avoid retaliation, off that assignment when he disclosed the assault. Contemporary videos and text messages logged his allegations in real time.

Anger as GOP put former 9/11 truther Marjorie Taylor Greene on Homeland Security Committee

Georgia representative has history of embracing far-right conspiracies

I love it when people act shocked at the sleazy, subhuman behavior of people like santos. As if it were some sort of surprising development that couldn’t possibly be foreseen. That’s SO kewt…/s