Let me say right up
front and as honest as possible: Republicans in elected or appointed public
office are great at identifying problems; explaining problems; sometimes even
offering solutions to problems; but, at the same time, long term, they are
horrible at solving most serious problems many of which they created themselves
all the while blaming others for their shortcomings. History, I believe proves
me correct.
Current case in point shows just how hypocritical and massive
serial liars the GOP has become as seen in this NEWWEEK article with this headline:
“Ted
Lieu Points Out Jim Jordan Ignored Subpoena as GOP Threatens More”
A prominent House Democrat is calling out
Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, over his past refusal to
comply with subpoenas, as he is expected to take over the House Judiciary
Committee as chairman and to order plenty of them.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) has taken to Twitter on
multiple occasions to remind followers that the GOP lawmaker refused to comply
with a subpoena from the bipartisan House select committee investigating the
Capitol riot. This, Lieu highlights, runs counter to the GOP's promise to use
subpoena power to conduct investigations into their political rivals.
Lieu tweeted Saturday
evening: “I will be regularly reminding the American people that incoming
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan ignored a bipartisan congressional subpoena.”
Lieu's tweet was in response to author and former FBI agent Peter Strzok, in which he shared excerpts from a statement issued by the DOJ reiterating to the new House GOP leadership that it does not share files related to ongoing cases with Congress.
House Republicans
had previously proposed the review of such files as part of their pledge to
investigate the alleged “weaponization of the federal government.”
Strzok tweeted on January 7: “Sadly for Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Scott
Perry, and others, no exceptions for the files of the investigations of members
of Congress.
In another tweet shortly after his first, Lieu again
reminded followers about Jordan and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's refusal to
answer the select committee's subpoenas in the past, in response to McCarthy's recent
promise in his acceptance speech “…to use subpoenas to get the job done.”
Lieu tweeted: “Your
regular reminder that Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and Speaker Kevin McCarthy
both ignored bipartisan congressional SUBPOENAS.”
Lieu previously served as a manager for the second Trump impeachment,
and he has been among the most outspoken Democratic critics of the former
president and the general transgressions of far-right lawmakers in Washington,
D.C.
Jordan also has often been the target of Lieu's critiques in the past
while calling him out last month for lying about a controversial tweet that
praised rapper Kanye West; Twitter CEO Elon Musk; and Trump that was posted to the House Judiciary GOP account.
That Jordan tweet read: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.”
It became a point of
mockery and condemnation online before it was eventually deleted by Jordan.
When asked if he condemned the tweet, Jordan, who served as
a ranking member on the committee, reportedly lied and said it had not
originated from the Judiciary GOP's official account.
In response, Lieu
shared a past quote from Jordan about small lies which he said: “One thing
I've learned: People who mislead folks on small things mislead them on big
things.”
My 2 Cents: Rep. Lieu is sharp and savvy and spot on with his critique of hypocrite Jim Jordan.
Now we wait to see just how revengeful and rabid Jordan will be. I suspect a boat load.
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