Update on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his “investigative
revenge Weaponization sub-committee trip” reported on here from MSNBC with this headline in an excellent article by Steven Benen
(formatted to fit the blog), and tied to my earlier post here – the same subject:
“Jim Jordan overlooks the key problem
with his ‘Weaponization’ probe”
As Jim Jordan scrambles to defend his flailing “Weaponization”
committee, there’s a problem he doesn’t seem to understand: His crusade is
bound to fail.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan and his team couldn’t have been
pleased when they saw this headline report from Axios: “Jim Jordan scrambles amid claims ‘Weaponization’ probe is
a dud.” As a rule, politicians leading multifaceted partisan crusades try to
avoid words such as “dud.”
Unfortunately for the Ohio congressman, however, such talk has become unavoidable. For example, a lot of planning went into the opening hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which Jordan leads.
As discussed,
it was nevertheless an embarrassing display: Republicans whined about old grievances without presenting new information and invited
witnesses who weren’t
in a position to shed light on the issue at hand.
One Republican insider told Rolling
Stone this: “Clearly there is room to grow and improve before [more]
public hearings.”
Things went from bad to worse last week when the Judiciary Committee’s
Democratic members released a 316-page report showing that Jordan’s FBI “whistleblowers” aren’t actually whistleblowers, and their recent behind-the-scenes testimony
was literally unbelievable (refer to the quote
above from that DEM report).
The GOP is clearly feeling antsy about the whole Jordan endeavor.
On Steve Bannon’s program,
a conservative guest described the
“Weaponization committee as a failure. Jim Jordan is just not a
serious person.”
This came on the heels of
a Twitter thread from Mike Davis, former chief counsel for nominations for
then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who wrote: “Jordan is overextended and short-staffed,
biting off much more than he can chew. This is doomed to fail.”
None of this has escaped
the attention of Chairman Jordan, who also leads the House Judiciary Committee,
and now is also leading the “Weaponization sub-committee.”
Jordan sounded quite defensive in his comments to Semafor writing after Fox News said that his sub-committee on
the Weaponization of the federal government has yet to uncover much, with him
not seeing it that way, saying: “I feel like our staff is working their tail
off and we’re getting things up and rolling.”
Jordan then said in the same interview, that he promised more hearings, then pointed to more “whistleblowers, and bragging that his panel’s staff had more than doubled to 50 people.
My 2 Cents: As many of us who follow this “new” GOP and the likes of the new Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and committee chairs he picked as a favor for voting him in the speakership, like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and several others it’s easy to see the goal of this GOP.
That goal is to
spread chaos as far and wide as possible to convert the country to their BS
side of democracy.
I say to them: It ain’t gonna happen. This Jordan “Flim-Flam” side show
is a perfect example of that failure in the making – at least in my view.
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