Goldman, Nadler, what are you prepared to do about it?

 

Can't help judging THAT book by its cover.  Where did they find that giant hayseed?

UPDATE 06/19/2025:

Boebert showing her dumb ass again

Vying for most ignorant while being loud in Congress with Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Do they not even have aides who can explain things to them?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07/11/2024:

And again...

Fair question

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mayorkas impeachment

Dan Goldman is on it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

The spirit of ignorant fascism lives on

The Japanese suffered the consequences during WWII in American internment camps, which Trump promises to bring back.  But the House GOP would like to get a jump on it by deporting Palestinians. Then the camps won't have to be so big, I guess.

[A] GOP bill, introduced earlier this month by Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) with 10 Republican co-sponsors, would ban or revoke visas, refugee status and asylum for Palestinian Authority passport holders dating back to Oct 1, shortly before the Hamas attack on Israel.

[...]

[A countering] two-page resolution [...] is being introduced by Reps. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), both of whom are Jewish and steadfastly pro-Israel.

[...]

The resolution says the GOP bill “dangerously conflates Palestinians with Hamas” and “is un-American, bigoted, and is designed to inflame tensions which could result in violence.”

[...]

"Calls to expel Palestinians from the United States are racist, xenophobic and have no place in the government of the United States," Goldman said.

  Axios

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway, he did not say.

Having fun in the House Homeland Security committee hearing

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green barred GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from speaking further in a hearing after she called Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” – a stunning example of how Greene’s extreme rhetoric led even members of her own party to shut her down, creating tensions inside the House GOP.

The outburst took up considerable time during the hearing and threatened to overshadow Mayorkas’s testimony – to the frustration of Republican committee members.

A source close to Green said the chairman was furious with the congresswoman’s behavior and planned to privately reprimand her, and also said he would encourage Speaker Kevin McCarthy to remove her from the committee if she ever had an outburst like that again.

Greene told CNN on Thursday she was “surprised and angered” over the incident and said she already spoke to McCarthy. “He agreed with me,” Greene said, indicating the speaker believed she shouldn’t have silenced. She also said McCarthy would never agree to pulling her off the committee. “Speaker McCarthy is never going to let that happen,” she said.

  CNN

She's right about that, because she has his balls. if he gets crossways with her, she'll be calling for a vote to remove him from the Speaker's seat. That deal was sealed when the MAGA caucus finally let him become Speaker after 15 rounds of voting. 

She got what she was after: a video clip showing how tough she is.  Fundraising material.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Democrats seem to be taking to Republic manners in Congress

See previous post, and add these:

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Self-owning Republican committee

Despite their own past behavior, Republicans are using their newfound control of the House to probe Democrats’ and federal law enforcement agencies’ interaction with Twitter.

[...]

WHEN THE WHITE House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.

That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. The newly empowered Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now devoting significant resources and time to investigating this supposed “collusion” between liberal politicians and Twitter.

  Rolling Stone

Ooops.

The Trump administration and its allied Republicans in Congress routinely asked Twitter to take down posts they objected to — the exact behavior that they’re claiming makes President Biden, the Democrats, and Twitter complicit in an anti-free speech conspiracy to muzzle conservatives online.

[...]

But during both the Trump and Biden presidencies, these types of moderation requests or demands were routinely sent to Twitter by the staff of influential GOP lawmakers — ones with names like Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik.

[...]

The obvious irony here is, the sources note, that Republican leaders and elected officials have long been committing precisely the kind of “government interference” that they are now investigating, fundraising off of, and accusing Democrats and the so-called anti-Trump “Deep State” of perpetrating. Some of the loudest conservative and MAGA voices on Capitol Hill — who’ve been endlessly demanding taxpayer-funded, high-profile investigations into Big Tech “bias” and “collusion” — were themselves engaged in the behavior they now claim is colluding.

I wonder if Matt Taibbi and Jonathan Turley - or indeed, Elon Musk himself - will have anything to say.

Other posts on this insane flop of a committee can be found here and here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 09:24 am:

UPDATE 03:18 pm:  Well, we've heard from Turley now...

Maybe Taibbi will have something to say about that.

Katie, bar the door...

Too bad the yelling and screaming clips are what they're after - the fundraising value is priceless.

And wrapping it up...

The Age of Angry Torpor has descended on us all.

[...]

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability had its first chance to air out its chuckleheaded conspiracy tales about Twitter's "suppression" of the news about Hunter Biden's laptop. It took up most of the legislative day on Wednesday.

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When Rep. Lauren Boebert threatened a witnesses with arrest and prosecution for...something...and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Comer if he didn't think this violated committee protocols on witness intimidation, Comer fumbled and foozled around until an aide at his shoulder prompted him to reply, “We don't agree there was witness threatening.” (He couldn't come up with that on his own?)

[...]

Comer put a blow-up of the NYP front page in question behind his chair. That story speculated that the laptop contained evidence that Joe Biden had gotten a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because the man was closing in on one of Hunter's business partners. This, you may recall, was the primary red herring Republicans tossed out as an alternate theory of the crime during Impeachment No. 1. One person who remembered that quite clearly was rookie Rep. Dan Goldman, whose previous gig was lead counsel for the House Judiciary Committee in that very matter. He took Comer out for a walk.

  Charlie Pierce

Continue reading.

Stefanik's reputation tied to Santos?

Rep. Elise Stefanik has been asked by her New York congressional peers to cooperate with a House Ethics Committee probe into whether Rep. George Santos committed a crime among the many lies he told to get elected.

On Sunday, Reps. Daniel Goldman, D-Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres, D-Bronx, wrote a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Stefanik and Republican fundraiser Daniel Conston, asking them to disclose any knowledge they may have had of Santos’s lies before the November election.

  Adirondack Daily Enterprise

I'm sure they're shocked. Shocked! Stefanik's "friend" wouldn't lie, would he?

New reporting from the New York Times has involved Stefanik in the debacle, reporting that her chief political aide, who has gone unnamed, helped Santos on his campaign in the spring of 2022, after his first team of campaign staff resigned when they learned of his lies.

Oh! He WOULD lie. And Stefanik's people replaced his staff when they quit BECAUSE he lied. So much for pretending you didn't know.

Republican donors active in Long Island Republican circles are reported to have informed associates of Stefanik about concerns that Santos was a fraud as well.

Oh my.

Stefanik’s team did not provide a response when asked about these claims on Monday.

I'm shocked.

And then, let's hear what McCarthy knew.  Stefanik was awfully prominent in the scrum around him during the five days of his attempt to get the gavel.  He at least knew that someone on Santos' staff pretended to be someone on McCarthy's staff in order to fund raise. 

At this point, it seems like Republicans have decided to throw so much shit at the fan that people can't separate it out to decide what to do about what. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 01/24/2023:

Oh yeah, she's lying.

The week's scheduled public hearings

Wednesday: William Taylor (US ambassador to Ukraine)
Wednesday: George Knet (State Dept deputy ass't secretary)
Friday: Marie Yovanovitch (smeared, ousted US ambassador to Ukraine)

Democrats plan to hold two weeks of hearings in the House Intelligence Committee and will later hold hearings in the Judiciary Committee, which will draft any articles of impeachment.

  Politico

Do you suppose they'll move Jordan onto the Judiciary Committee, too?

Republicans are allowed to request their own witnesses, but it’s ultimately up to Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff to approve them. Some of the GOP suggestions are explosive, including Hunter Biden and the anonymous whistleblower who sounded the alarm about Trump and Ukraine. Schiff has effectively shut the door on those asks, saying the committee “will not serve ... as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the president pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit.”

[...]

Democrats, mindful that high-stakes hearings can quickly deteriorate into messy partisan free-for-alls, have attempted to streamline the standard hearing process to ensure an uninterrupted flow of questions.

[...]

[The Intelligence Committee] has the fewest lawmakers in the House, with 13 Democrats and nine Republicans, and most aren’t known for grandstanding or theatrics — though there are a few notable exceptions.

Including one of the biggest grandstanders, Jim Jordan, who is a member of the Oversight Committee that the Republicans have put temporarily on Intel so he can cause a stink there.

The process of questioning witnesses will also be centralized. Schiff and his GOP counterpart, Rep. Devin Nunes, will control the majority of the questioning and likely defer to staff lawyers for much of it.

[...]

Schiff and Nunes also will each have the power to ask an unlimited number of questions to witnesses, for up to 45 minutes at a time. During these periods, only they and their staff may participate. The rank-and-file lawmakers on the committee will also be given five minutes apiece to ask witnesses questions.

[...]

Trump and Republicans also have demanded that the president’s lawyers and White House counsel be permitted to participate, a request Democrats have rejected. However, Trump will be allowed to be represented when the Judiciary Committee drafts impeachment articles in the next few weeks.

I don't know why they'd let him do that. Defendants get represented at trial, not during prosecutor deliberations about whether and what to charge.

Schiff is expected to yield much of his time to [Daniel] Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who serves as the Intelligence Committee’s director of investigations. Goldman spent 10 years as a federal prosecutor with the Southern District of New York.

Goldman was featured prominently in the deposition transcripts, and he’ll likely play a similarly outsize role during the public hearings.

[...]

In addition to Goldman, Schiff is likely to tap [Daniel] Noble for public questioning, too.

Double Daniels.

Noble also worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He specialized in cybercrime and organized crime prosecutions.

Noble was brought on to the Intelligence Committee in March as a senior counsel and has been intimately involved in the private questioning of witnesses throughout the impeachment inquiry.

[...]

Jordan is a fierce questioner and fire-breathing defender of Trump — but until last week, he wasn’t even on the Intelligence Committee. But his consistently aggressive defense of the president pushed House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to install Jordan on the panel (and remove a less prominent Republican member [Rick Crawford]) and give him a chance to put his tenacity on display.

[...]

In moving Rep. Jim Jordan to the Intelligence Committee, Republicans also brought over his chief counsel for the Oversight Committee, Steve Castor. Sources familiar with GOP planning say Nunes will yield much of his time during the 45-minute round of questioning to Castor, who has endeared himself to GOP lawmakers for sharply grilling witnesses during the depositions.

[...]

[Minority chair Devin] Nunes has emerged in recent years as Trump’s most hardline defender in Congress, one of the few lawmakers who, when Republicans previously controlled the House, was willing to use his gavel to undermine the investigations of the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. He’s been a Fox News fixture, insisting that Trump is the victim of coup attempts and conspiracies.