Elected officials fail to realize that independent voters want Congress to cease being an ethical cesspool. The Insane Red team is going in the other direction.
Time reported on Kevin McCarthy's pursuit of the Speaker of the House:
.... buried in the text was another provision that could be highly consequential for the new Congress being sworn in on Tuesday: language that would effectively gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), as the independent panel faces pressure to investigate lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Most significantly, McCarthy’s proposal would require OCE to hire its staff for the 118th Congress within 30 days of the resolution’s adoption, a requirement that sources familiar with the process tell TIME would make it exceedingly difficult for the office to have the resources it needs to conduct its investigations, given how long it takes to hire candidates for roles in the federal government. The proposal would also block OCE from hiring new employees over the next two years if someone leaves their position, sources say.
“Republicans get to take control of the House, and on their first day in Congress, they are not trying to take a hammer to the OCE—they’re being a little smarter about it—but they’re taking a scalpel to it,” a Hill source familiar with the ethics process tells TIME.
A former Chair of the House Ethics Committe was recently the lobbyist for FTX. This says something about the Insane Red Team and their Blue Lucy counterparts.
Update 1-3-23: The House cannot do business until a Speaker is selected. The Insane Red Team failed to do so in three rounds of voting today. It's not a shutdown but a failure to launch.
Update 1-7-23: Kevin McCarthy won Speaker of the House in the 15th ballot after negotiating with extreme members of the his Insane Red Team. One House member astutely observed:
“We would have won more seats in 2022 but too many feared the extremes in the GOP even before this.”
Many of those same extreme Insane Red Team members had their hands in the Jan. 6th insurrection, which saw its second anniversary yesterday. Insane with no shame...portends poorly for our country.
Update 1-9-23: Newly elected Insane Red Rep. Cory Mills joked about the criminal attack on Paul Pelosi.
The Insane Reds will likely cause great financial harm to the U.S. over the debt limit come summer.
The specter of default, of missing payments and shaking faith in the United States, hangs over all debt ceiling debates
Update 1-16-23: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy played a role in pushing the George Santos con on New York voters.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) admitted Monday he “always had a few questions” about the resume of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.)
McCarthy's right hand man Dan Conston was aware of the fraud. It's nice that boss McCarthy admitted that he knew as well.
Update 3-9-23: Speaker Kevin McCarthy flip flopped on January 6th. His forceful words the day of and davs after the insurrection are ancient history. McCarthy gave Fox News pinhead Tucker Carlson access to over 40,000 of Capital video footage. Pucker used it to portray the event as a picnic.
