Double secret probation?
Posted on 02/01/2021 7:27:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) will be judged by a “secretive” Senate ethics panel over whether they had a part in inciting the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6.
The Senate Ethics Committee probe “will unwind over an interminable timetable with little hint of where it is going,” Politico reports.
The committee says nothing about its business until actions are taken. And it has a lot of business before it: Seven Democratic senators filed a complaint against the two GOP senators who led the effort to object to the election results, arguing that they ‘lent legitimacy” to the cause of those who invaded the Capitol. Hawley fired back with a counter complaint alleging “improper conduct” for partisan gain.
The panel is led by Chair Chris Coons (D-Del.), who called for Cruz (R-Texas) and Hawley (R-Mo.) to resign, and Vice Chair James Lankford (R-Okla.), who planned to challenge the election results himself before backing away after the invasion of the Capitol. Coons and Lankford speak frequently to each other and have a warm relationship, just as Coons did with former Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). […]
The committee's rules keep all actions of the panel secret without approval by a majority of the committee. The last press release the committee released was in 2017, confirming an inquiry into former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). (Politico)
Lankford told the outlet that nothing about the probe will be discussed—“we don’t confirm anything and we’re pretty lockstep about that.”
Seven Senate Democrats filed a complaint against Cruz and Hawley but Senate Republicans questioned the decision to take it to the Ethics Committee.
“It’s a very slippery slope if you start punishing senators for holding unpopular views and exercising their rights on the Senate floor,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), reports Politico. “That’s not what I think of the Ethics Committee as being for. I don’t see how this is an ethics complaint.”
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), meanwhile, called it “draconian for the other side to try and take that action given senators’ First Amendment rights.”
Oh, this just keeps getting better and better.
We’re taking giant strides here. Towards USSR 1937.
A Secretive Senate Panel?
Is this the same Secretive Senate Panel that wants to impeach Trump on a voice vote only? With no record of individual votes?
Bleep ‘em.
Double secret probation?
How about a Super Ultra Secret Committee?!
The central Committee has made up it’s mind your next.
I can see April 1861 from my back porch...
5.56mm
If they go secretive and voice vote no record only then please take note that if you get an invitation to a distant wilderness relaxation camp with fully paid Train tickets for you and your family-——
DONT GO!!!!
What was it? Yesterday that Cruz went out and started to slime the Donald?
Backstabbing little SOB.
Judged for following a Constitutional process.
Secretive committee?
Thank you sir may I have another?
What an excellent choice of words.
But, but....
They promised me a nice hot shower when I get there.
Although the train ride is a little smelly. (Mooo)
The Senate now has its own Star Chamber!
These actions are pissing off soldiers and military members big time.
Back in the USSR.
Is there any reason to believe this coiled spring can be safely unwound without it exploding? It appears to me we have crossed the Rubicon where insanity now reigns eternal. This is a case where the inmates now run the insane asylum, which they have corrupted to insure permanent tyranny over the Country.
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