Posted on 01/08/2021 8:46:07 AM PST by RandFan
Rep. Peter Meijer (R–Mich.), the Republican successor to the retiring Libertarian Justin Amash, has had quite the week. On Sunday, the 32-year-old Iraq/Afghanistan veteran and supermarket heir was sworn into office.
On Tuesday, he joined a dozen GOP lawmakers, including such Amash-pals as Reps. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) and Chip Roy (R–Texas), in objecting to Republican attempts to delay or oppose the certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. ("To unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process — would amount to stealing power from the people and the states," they wrote.)
And on Wednesday? "Definitely didn't expect to be donning a smoke-inhalation hood and having to get down under some chairs because there were concerns that they might start shooting into the House chambers," Meijer told me in a phone interview Thursday afternoon.
The congressman has withering words for elected Republicans who have spent the past nine weeks filling protesters' ears with false conspiracy theories and unfulfillable hopes.
"They were being lied to. They were being misled," he said of the demonstrators. "Some of my colleagues in Congress, they share responsibility for that. Many of them were fundraising off of this Stop the Steal grift. I don't understand how you can look in the mirror and go to sleep at night without that weighing on your conscience, I fundamentally do not. I'm just at a loss for words about how some of them have acted in ways that are just knowingly, provably false. And they know they're lying, too."
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T post. INFOBUMP!
Sigh, he’s my new rep. Good riddance, amash. In with the new trash.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Die, GOP, die
Just another swamp creature who will fit right in D.C.: Meijer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the grandson of supermarket chain founder Frederik Meijer. His family is one of the wealthiest in the state of Michigan [Forbes], with a net worth above $6 billion. His financial disclosures list in excess of $50 million in assets.... He initially studied for one year at the United States Military Academy at West Point before transferring to Columbia University in 2008, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology.
This was once Gerald Ford’s seat.
The Meijer name is arguably one of the five most famous family name in west Michigan (the others would be Kellogg, Gerber, Van Andel and de Vos), as most people there shop at a Meijer hypermarket.
As a person who grew up in the area, I actually have high hopes for Peter Meijer. Let’s give him a few months.
One of the commenters was mocking the Meijer heir big time:
“serving in Iraq and Afghanistan made him want to ‘end the endless wars.’”
Ummmmmmm, that’s not really the direction libertarians should be going in right now. Sounds like something Ron Paul would say.
The future of libertarianism is to find common ground with politicians like Joe Biden (voted for the Iraq War) and commentators like Bill Kristol (wrote an entire book advocating the Iraq War).
#LibertariansForEmbracingNeocons]
I haven’t read the full interview (BOOKMARK) but he sounds ok on endless wars
you can gather around him if Whitmer is recalled
A few months, ok. I voted for amash first time. It took two more election cycles to get rid of him.
WTH is wrong with these people??? It’s easy enough to object to any slate of electors from a state with a competing slate of electors. Then you let the chips fall where they may.
It’s like this entire country is turning into a hate group against the Boorish Orange Man (who I like and support, BTW) and his supporters.
And, as far as I know, Congressional involvement in the certification process was never a Constitutional issue before. After all, was Congress actually meant to be a useless bump on a log, a mere audience for Mike Pence to rotely read out and confirm certification of all electoral slates, fraudulent and otherwise? This is not the SOTU!
C’mon, man!
And, of course, just another reason to be glad that I left the GOP in October.
Treasonous scum will face a reckoning for supporting Satanic actions.
“Definitely didn’t expect to be donning a smoke-inhalation hood and having to get down under some chairs because there were concerns that they might start shooting into the House chambers,” “
But your useless covid mask is just fine?
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