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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Said without citing a single example.
Because she can't.
McCarthy probably wears a thong...
I think we all see what MSN is doing here. Damn the GOP if they pack all these voters into a single district. Damn the GOP if they don't draw a special distict for them.
McCarthy needs to start with ejecting Cheyney and Kinzinger as well as stripping the 13 GOPe weasels who voted for in support of a number of Jao Bai Dan regime initiatives
Until he instills voting discipline, why bother going after other side.
But alas McCarthy is a GOPe wussy and wont do anything. Pelosi showed her contempt for him by scheduling an early AM vote after his 8 hour stint delaying vote. GOPe would have pulled a comparable bill -
McCarthy needs to start with ejecting Cheyney and Kinzinger as well as stripping the 13 GOPe weasels who voted for in support of a number of Jao Bai Dan regime initiatives
Until he instills voting discipline, why bother going after other side.
But alas McCarthy is a GOPe wussy and wont do anything. Pelosi showed her contempt for him by scheduling an early AM vote after his 8 hour stint delaying vote. GOPe would have pulled a comparable bill -
“”one of the Democratic Party’s biggest stars after leading the first impeachment against Trump in 2019””
Without having to give up one shred of evidence he swore he had. What’s he saving it for?
I’m a big fan of not turning the other cheek when it comes to confronting Democrats who start something. No more Mr Nice Guy. Payback should be harsh.
I’m a big fan of not turning the other cheek when it comes to confronting Democrats who start something. No more Mr Nice Guy. Payback should be harsh.
Stopped right there. I must have missed where these Democrats stood up and said, “Stop all this Russian collusion nonsense”.
quote “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.”
um... remember when President Bush blew up the twin towers?
yeah, I DO!
I wouldn’t let any democrats sit on any committee!
“And the repubs are going to defund pbs/npr and planned parent (no father one parent)hood.”
This has been a long term promise of the GOP. It has never happened when they controlled the House (all appropriations bills begin in the House) or when they’ve controlled the House, Senate, and White House.
That is why I said it
...an' remove CRT from and rebuild the military, an' complete the wall, an' punish all those guilty of and/or complicit in the steal, an'.....an'.....an' give me a pony!
None of them embraced conspiracy theories or promoted violence?
You mean none of them embraced the Russia Collusion Hoax or the Klantifa/Burn Loot Murder riots?
How about booting them from the country?
Wow - yikes
Said without citing a single example.
Because she can't.
forget about examples, what about evidence?????
Don’t forget “debunked”
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