Posted on 11/28/2021 4:25:57 AM PST by Libloather
Multiple House Democrats who are frequent top targets of the far right face the prospect of losing their committee assignments if Republicans win back the chamber next year.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has threatened to retaliate after Democrats stripped GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) of committee seats this Congress, warning that some liberal lawmakers “will need the approval of a majority to keep those positions in the future.”
None of the Democrats singled out by McCarthy as examples of who could be removed from House committees have embraced conspiracy theories or promoted violence against their political opponents the way Greene and Gosar have.
But that’s not stopping Republicans from warning of a scorched-earth environment if they win back the House, as many poll watchers expect.
McCarthy has also pledged to restore Gosar's and Greene’s committee assignments.
Democrats maintain that they’ve only adhered to a precedent of taking punitive action against lawmakers who promoted political violence in the absence of a formal rebuke from GOP leaders.
“Let me be clear: If a Democrat did the same thing, I would introduce the same resolution,” said Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who led the original resolution to censure Gosar for posting an anime video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging swords at President Biden.
Democrats defended last week’s vote to censure Gosar and take away his committee seats as necessary given the unprecedented level of violent threats that lawmakers still face months after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. But some Democrats acknowledged that the possibility of Republicans engaging in payback is real.
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“Far right”...I stopped reading right there.
The GOP would be in the majority if the 2020 election was not stollen.
So I don’t know how the GOP thinks the 2022 mid terms will not be stollen again?
“Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Republicans have long been itching to retaliate against Schiff. The House Intelligence Committee chairman became one of the Democratic Party’s biggest stars after leading the first impeachment against Trump in 2019 over the former president’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden.”
I was glad to see him on the list, especially with that I have seen evidence of Russian Collusion statement.
And the repubs are going to defund pbs/npr and planned parent (no father one parent)hood.
Did Eric Fartswell sleep with a Chinese spy? And yet he is still on a committee.
Gotta love the double standard Democrats.
Huh?
Adam Schitt, and his LIE in a committee hearing about the Perfect Phone Call.
Gerry Nadler and his breaking the House rules in order to ramrod through testimony.
Maxine Waters demand to stir up the masses and mobs and "get in their faces".
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These are just a few off the top of my head...
DEMOCRATS STANDING IN QUICKSAND:
Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.)
In 2018, Waters urged people to confront Trump administration officials in public spaces and “tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere” over policies that resulted in separating migrant families. And the year before that, Waters told a crowd that she would “go and take out Trump tonight.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.)
Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress and a prominent member of the progressive “squad,” has faced bipartisan pushback for her criticisms of Israel. And while Democrats have taken some action in the past over some of Omar’s comments that were considered controversial, Republicans have long called for going further and removing her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.)
McCarthy and other Republicans have been calling for Swalwell’s removal from the House Intelligence Committee since Axios reported in late 2020 that a suspected Chinese intelligence operative named Christine Fang cultivated ties with him. Republicans forced a procedural vote on a resolution in March to remove Swalwell from the Intelligence panel, but it was rejected along party lines. That vote came weeks after Swalwell served as one of the House prosecutors in Trump’s impeachment trial following the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Fang reportedly took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 reelection campaign — although records indicate she didn’t make donations herself — and helped place an intern in his office.
Federal authorities alerted Swalwell to concerns about Fang around 2015, leading the California Democrat to cut ties with her. Swalwell has not been accused of any wrongdoing and said he provided information about Fang to the FBI.
Adam Schiff.
After what they did to Marjorie Taylor Greene, you basically have to find a few of their more off-the-wall ones to boot out in retaliation come 2023.
Consider the source. They also like to use "baseless," "unfounded," and "false."
Sure they are.
And candy grows on the trees on your planet, I presume?
Duh..... that’s normal practice
As soon as I saw far right I knew this was yet another BS article.
GOP already has enough safe seats — through redistricting alone — to win back House in ‘22
Salon ^ | 11/16/2021 | Igor Derysh
Posted on 11/18/2021, 3:54:52 PM by Signalman
Republican-led states have already added enough safe seats through redistricting to flip control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections.
Republicans have already reconfigured enough districts to add five safe seats, which would be enough to flip the House majority if nothing else changes, according to a New York Times analysis.
Though people of color drove most of the nation’s population growth in the last census, some Republican states have aggressively packed voters of colors into single districts or failed to draw a single minority-majority district at all.
Many of the new maps have already been challenged by lawsuits, although a 2019 Supreme Court decision that allows federal courts to review gerrymanders that appear to be based on race — but not those designed simply for partisan advantage — is likely complicate the legal challenges.
Republicans have already added a net total of five seats, according to the Times, after completing redistricting in Texas, Iowa, North Carolina and Montana. Though Democrats are poised to add safe seats for themselves in states like New York, Illinois and Oregon, Republicans have total control of the redistricting process in states that represent 187 congressional districts while Democrats control just 75.
Some of the new maps build on existing districts that were already heavily gerrymandered by Republicans following the 2010 census.
The path back to a majority for Democrats if they lose in 2022 has to run through states like Texas, and they’re just taking that off the table.
Other Republican-led states are expected to produce similarly gerrymandered maps. Ohio Republicans are pushing a map that would give them 13 of the state’s 15 seats in the House, giving them 86% of seats even though Donald Trump won just just 53% of the vote in Ohio last year.
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“The Hill”...I stopped reading right there.
Hush, McCarthy's got this
You really nailed it.
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