Adam Schiff had some tough, well deserved words about Kevin McCarthy this morning:
John Amato at C&L makes it clear just how fatuous McCarthy’s lame threats really are:
Since Republicans have shown no mercy, comity, or any form of civility and morals when they took back the House in 2010, and the Senate soon afterwards, their threats are meritless.
House Republicans held eight separate hearing on the Benghazi incident to smear Hillary Clinton and wreck her chances of the presidency.
Majority Leader McConnell immorally blocked Pres. Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, lied to the American people about why he stopped the nomination, claiming 8 months out of an election cycle was too short a time.
When RBG died, he along with Trump danced on her grave, and within a few weeks of an election filled her seat with another Christian right evangelical.
Now he is arguing that no matter what your actions or your statements were no matter how anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic, seditious, and QAnon-inspired, as soon as you’re sworn in as a Congressperson, they no longer matter.
Ad anyone who calls for the execution of their political rivals simply should be disqualified. But since it isn’t, the least the Republicans could have done is exercise a tiny bit of discipline and deny Greene her committee assignment. But McCarthy is so weak and spineless — so attached at the hip to Donald Trump, eve now — that he punted and made the Democrats do the dirty work.
Fine. And yes, if they win the majority in 2022, I fully expect that they will strip a dozen Democrats of their committee assignments over nothing. That’s how they roll. But they can’t be allowed to let these insanely radical conspiracy theorists run wild and you cannot let their threats and intimidation have free rein. If they do their worst in two years, they do their worst. It doesn’t change a thing.