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Gaetz: Old rules won’t work against unethical Dems acting like ‘angry pack of rabid hyenas’
BizPackReview ^ | October 24, 2019 | Frieda Powers

Posted on 10/24/2019 6:18:59 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Rep. Matt Gaetz slammed closed-door impeachment hearings with “no rules” that are being run by House Democrats acting like an “angry pack of rabid hyenas.”

The Florida Republican unloaded his frustration to Fox News host Tucker Carlson Wednesday, defending dozens of his GOP colleagues who stormed a secret hearing by House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight Committees in protest of the way Chairman Adam Schiff has been conducting the proceedings.

“What was the purpose?” Carlson asked the lawmaker on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” referring to his leading members of the Freedom Caucus and other Republicans in storming the classified Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility where Democrats were interviewing Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lisa Cooper on Wednesday.

“We had the audacity to want to know what in the world was going on behind closed doors where Democrats have engaged in a strategy of secret interviews, selective leaks, theatrical, weird performances of transcripts that never happened and then lies about whistleblowers,” Gaetz replied. “So it’s reasonable to suggest that we would want more transparency on behalf of the millions of people we represent.”

“Do you have a right under Congressional rules to demand it?” Carlson asked.

“There are no rules,” Gaetz responded.

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: billbarr; connecticut; coup; democrats; florida; gaetz; house; impeachment; johndurham; mattgaetz; michaelhorowitz; trump
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To: treetopsandroofs

Let’s hope that is all it takes.


21 posted on 10/24/2019 8:20:14 AM PDT by chris37
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To: yesthatjallen

Congress, as presently constructed, which has become a House of Lords with lifetime appointments and the creation of a ruling oligarchy, has out-lived its functionality.

For either legislative body: One term only, after which eligibility to hold federal legislative branch office ceases for life. All federal employees above a certain GS level must leave their positions upon the election of a president - and may only be rehired by an appointee of the new president. No unionization in any federal employment. Immediate elimination of the CIA and all non-defense intelligence positions. Elimination of the FBI, with the creation new federal law enforcement agency with limited jurisdiction, with a director that serves solely at the pleasure of the president as does any other cabinet officer and without a specter of employment.

I have my pipe dreams...


22 posted on 10/24/2019 8:21:08 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: Williams

The “House Intelligence Committee” is supposed to handle foriegn intelligence, not political coups. But the judiciary committee doesn’t have a SCIF.


23 posted on 10/24/2019 8:51:32 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: yesthatjallen

The next time the Dirty Thirty show up outside Shitt’s Congressional Kangaroo Court Bunker, they should have Scottish Highland bagpipers playing continuously throughout the day.


24 posted on 10/24/2019 8:53:13 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: A Navy Vet

What you said, shipmate!


25 posted on 10/24/2019 9:30:53 AM PDT by rhubarbk (MAGA/KAG . . . Trump 2020!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen
"There are no rules," Gaetz responded.
I love that answer. Calvinball rules.

The flaw with the current outrage is that it has no reasonable basis. The flaw is not that things are done in secret, it is that innocent and positive activity is being "converted" to nefarious action by speculation, misrepresentation, innuendo, and other sundry forms of rank dishonesty.

Fundamental dishonesty does not follow or respect rules. It bends rules out of recognition, it abuses rules, it hides behind rules and law.

Well, now the stage is public theater, and the DEMs have started down the path of the absurd. Play along with it, play along.

26 posted on 10/24/2019 9:36:19 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: yesthatjallen

27 posted on 10/24/2019 9:45:31 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Sans-Culotte

No. Use sunshine power. Instead of secrecy, the Senate Judiciary Committee should have open hearings under legal subpoena, where every secret witness from the Schiff chamber is deposed under oath, and if he brings the transcript of his Schiff testimony for reference, it has to be copied for review by the Committee. Television cameras and a court stenographer will be in use. Also, subpoena all the witnesses that refused to go to the Schiff chamber, and have them deposed. The WH counsel and Rudy will be present to cross-examine and offer evidence of their own.

The Schiff chamber is thus exposed and upstaged, and the people get to learn what really went on in an unbiased, due-process forum. Nancy and Schiff-head gnash their teeth but can do nothing.


28 posted on 10/24/2019 10:53:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5
An interesting thought: Senate subpoena Schiff’s witnesses AND their transcripts AND Ol’ Shifty himself. Alternative thought: Barr subpoena all the relevant stuff for grand jury on likely charges against the Dems’ coup attempt.
29 posted on 10/24/2019 11:07:40 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation; All

Don’t ya love the entire media circus using the word: “stormed?” Were the stormtroopers carrying “assault rifles?”


30 posted on 10/24/2019 11:11:37 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Mat_Helm

Love that pic.

The DemonRat party in the People's House should quit having "Secret Meetings in the People's House", period.

Nancy Pelousy will not be our Speaker next year after the 2020 election and she knows it too since she looks like she is having another Alzheimer's/Dementia spell every time a camera is in front of her.

The DemonRat Party is pathetic to say the least and they have had one (1) Coup attempt on our duly elected President Trump and they want another Coup attempt on President Trump since they hate our POTUS.

We already know we have "Cesspool Swamp In D.C."

31 posted on 10/24/2019 11:13:01 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: yesthatjallen; bitt; LucyT
I've heard many on the left claiming that several of the Republicans violated security regulations by bringing their cell phones into the SCIF with them. The fact is, these devices were all removed upon entry.

There were NO tweets sent from the SCIF, as reported by #fakenews outlets. The tweets were sent by their clerks from other offices.

What I haven't yet heard from anyone whatsoever, is that the demented Democrats are bringing their uncleared witnesses into a TOP SECRET SCIF, which indeed is a serious violation of our national classified security regulations if any classified information is within the sight of them.

These Democrats have absolutely no business, threatening the security of our Country, by bringing these un-American traitors into the TOP SECRET areas of Congress!


32 posted on 10/24/2019 11:22:40 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Missouri gal

Do both. Rabid hyenas need to be put down.


33 posted on 10/24/2019 11:30:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Reason he is having it in a scif is probably to twist their words, lead the witness. And say they said things they didn’t say.


34 posted on 10/24/2019 3:22:58 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: yesthatjallen
“angry pack of rabid hyenas.”

He was being too gentile and deferential to the Dems. Hyenas aren't that bad.

35 posted on 10/24/2019 4:00:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Delta 21

People with torches....

They’ll never make it past the Pelosi mansion estate wall. Fourteen feet thick like the Vatican wall. Those leftists can build ‘em, baby. Those are walls.


36 posted on 10/24/2019 4:03:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Mat_Helm

I always hated the taunting derision from the left when a court or other decision went against the good conservatives. They’d say “Ha! What are the conservatives going to do now, have riots at the country clubs? Ha, Ha.”

Rodney King? MLK? 1967 Detroit? Trayvon? Tens of millions of dollars in riot damage for days.

Also Reginald Denny, rest in peace, pulled out of his truck and beaten with punches, kicks and a cinder block while he was down in Los Angeles.

It’s true, conservatives do not riot.

Yet.


37 posted on 10/24/2019 4:10:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

being too genteel and deferential....

not “gentile”

Sorry.


38 posted on 10/24/2019 4:11:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

I see swords and pikes in there. Barrage trebuchets are coming up the road!


39 posted on 10/24/2019 4:46:02 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

WaPo logo: Democracy Dies in Darkness


40 posted on 10/24/2019 5:03:17 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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