Current House GOP: The Worse in American Political History Two Examples

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) 

(Vote$ no; take$ the dough; brag$ about it)

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) 

(Vote$ no, take$ the dough, brag$ about it)

The below NEWSWEEK article shows the raw hypocrisy of this broken GOP and many members with the classic example this story headline addresses:

“Rep, Jim Jordan (R-OH) was the subject of trolling and mockery online after he touted job gains in his state and district attributable to the very bill he voted against.”

Jordan has represented Ohio's 4th District since 2007 and established himself as one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House GOP and a loyalist to Trump. He has been assigned to numerous committees during his time in Congress and he currently chairs the GOP House Judiciary Committee where he has been heavily involved in efforts to launch an impeachment against President Joe Biden.

Despite his outspoken opposition to Biden’s agenda, Jordan has now been called out by the White House for a post to X (formerly Twitter), in which he hyped recent job gains in Ohio, with post headlines like these: (1) “New manufacturing plant to create 160 local jobs; (2) Sheetz to hire over 400 new employees in Ohio; (3) Move your business to Ohio; (4) Hire workers, and (5) See success.”

In response, the official account for the White House singled out the news about Honda and LG, attributing their investment in U.S. jobs to one of Biden's signature pieces of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Jordan voted against in 2022. 

The White House account wrote. “Honda and LG are adding jobs here in America because of President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – which Rep. Jim Jordan voted against.” 

Following that, other users on X also took Jordan to task over the discrepancy, including Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) who wrote: “I want to thank Republican Jim Jordan for highlighting manufacturing jobs being created. The laws passed by Democrats and signed by President Biden are working.”

A businessman named Rich Luchette wrote in his own X post: “Joe Biden's economy at work.”

Jordan’s office, responding to an inquiry from Newsweek, called the assertion from the White House: “Laughable. People move their jobs to Ohio because of freedom and conservative values — certainly nothing Joe Biden has done.”

Honda and LG Energy Solution are set to begin the hiring process soon for a battery plant in Ohio's Fayette County, which was announced in 2022 and began construction in 2023. The plant is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2024, with estimates suggesting that it could end up creating around 2,200 jobs. 

The Ohio plant will focus on the creation of batteries for electric cars, with green energy production being a major goal of Biden's IRA.

My 2 Cents: Jordan is not alone in that sort of bragging nonesense while voting no on bills that bring lots of money and jobs to their districts.

Dozens of other Republicans have done the same thing back in their local state districts, and that is to take credit for money and jobs coming in while voting against the legislation that authorized the successes. They vote no and then take the dough – see here for examples. 

A classic example is like this one from my GOP Rep. in Congress in my Upstate NY district. That is Rep. Claudia Tenney (pictured above). 

FYI and BTW: I’m a DEM and I think she is a whack job and horrible, but very slick and very talkative as seen in this article. 

Tenney criticized the CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS: “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors”) but has welcomed spending that would benefit her constituents, saying: “Senate Democrats … announced, only hours after the [CHIPS and Science Act] passed the Senate, that they had struck an agreement on a partisan reconciliation bill. “While they call it the ‘Inflation Reduction Act,’ the opposite is true.”

Then she added: “The bill is poised to send our country into a crushing recession even faster, and it is inextricably linked to passage of the CHIPS and Science Act.”

Then shortly thereafter, Tenney thanked colleagues for their bipartisan support in helping her secure a tech hub designation for the NY Semiconductor Manufacturing and Research Technology Innovation Corridor (called the: “NY SMART I-Corridor.”

FYI: Tenney did not respond to requests for comment for this story through her press office.

My personal view of Rep. Tenney – she is as phony as they get.

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