Kevin McCarthy KICKS Democrats From Powerful Committee Positions: Republican Speaker Boots Squad Member Ilhan Omar From Foreign Affairs and Removes Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell From Intelligence

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By KATELYN CARALLE

Kevin McCarthy will make good on Republican threats to kick Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee, as well as blocking Ilhan Omar from serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
 
The move is likely payback for former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stripping GOP Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar from their committee assignments during the 117th Congress.
 
Republicans warned that Democrats would regret down the road deciding to dictate who serves on what committees. If operating under usual precedent, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would offer their names to the respective committees and McCarthy would approve.
 
Speaker McCarthy, however, told Punchbowl News that he’s already made the case against all three far-left representatives earning spots on these high-profile committees.
 
‘It’s not like it’s anything new,’ McCarthy said. ‘Remember, this is what Nancy Pelosi – this is the type of Congress she wanted to have.’
 
‘Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector,’ he added of his fellow California lawmaker. ‘I’m not going to give him a government security clearance,’
 
He continued: ‘Schiff has lied too many times to the American public. He should not be on Intel.’
 
All three lawmakers say they haven’t engaged in wrongdoing and should not be removed from their committees.
 
However, Swalwell has faced questions over his ties to a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
 
The woman helped Swalwell raise money for his 2014 campaign – and while the California Democrat said he cut all ties to the alleged spy, it was shown that he remained friends with her on Facebook long after a FBI briefing on her ties to China.
 
Omar, for her part, has shared a slew anti-Semitic comments and sentiments, which were even criticized by other Democrats.
 
After the rules package passed Monday night, the next big fight is shaping up to be a partisan brawl on the floor regarding committee assignments – following more than a week of Republican bickering and chaos over who should be Speaker and what rules should govern the House in the 118th Congress.
 
It took 15 rounds of voting last week for Republicans to finally decide that they were OK with handing McCarthy the Speaker’s gavel.
 
McCarthy has been vowing since 2021 to block Swalwell, Schiff and Omar from spots on the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees.
 
Multiple Democratic leadership sources claim that the plan is to still name Schiff and Swalwell to Intel and Omar to Foreign Affairs, according to Punchbowl.
 
Meanwhile, Republicans will place Greene, Gosar and the latest controversial GOP Representative George Santos to committees. Democrats, who are now in the minority, can’t do anything to stop it.
 
Greene was booted off the Budget and then Education and Labor panels in February 2021 over a series of offensive comments she made before being elected to Congress – including pushing conspiracy theories about Jewish people.
 
The Democratic resolution to remove her from her committee was backed by 11 House Republicans, as well.
 
It’s expected that McCarthy will place the Georgia Representative on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, among other potential panel assignments.

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Bravo Mr Speaker!!!

“Remains ‘friends’ ” uh huh sure ‘friends’

All three (and more) should be removed from Congress. Omar had committed immigration, income tax and campaign finance fraud. Swalwell, of course, is a well documented dupe of the CCP (possibly a willing dupe) and most probably warned Fang Fang about the FBI being on her trail. No doubt he continuously farts in committee meetings as well.

Schiff is possibly the greatest liar in Congress, and that is saying something. He threatened national security by his relentless and unwarranted attacks on Trump and cost the American taxpayer millions of dollars. Schiff is a lying piece of shit that hates this country, it’s people and the Constitution, but he has lots of Democrat company.

Just for effect, I hope McCarthy sets up at least one committee where he picks the Democrats and limits them to just two members.

McCarthy = Pelosi

But Pelosi with a choke collar.

Removing Schiff and Swalwell from Intelligence is a literal no-brainer!

You’ve literally got that right. I expect a lot more no-brain moves as these clowns self-destruct.

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Except no Republicans are proposing any such cuts. This is just more leftist lies trying to scare seniors. Well, I’M a senior and I’m anything BUT scared. I merely recognize Democrats as corrupt liars that run up debt and destroy economies.

Does that mean Biden will only negotiate on hurting Seniors, not gimmies to other countries?
Why do you keep commenting off topic? Are you unable to follow the subject,like Shifty leaking classified information, and Omar marrying he brother or the Farter sleeping with a spy?
Your favorite Republican has recused himself from all committees.

Last edited 1 year ago by kitt

01/14/23 – Here’s why the House GOP made defunding the IRS its first priority

…The claim from countless Republicans, from Speaker McCarthy on down, is that the influx of money will lead to a flood of 87,000 new IRS agents who will then turn and harass everyday Americans. Some critics of the agency go even further and claim these new agents will be armed.

But fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked the claims, and the agency itself pushed back in a Yahoo Finance op-ed from then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig in August.

The viral claims are “absolutely false,” Rettig wrote at the time, adding his agency “is often perceived as an easy target for mischaracterizations,” but he promised the new money will not lead to increased audit scrutiny on households making under $400,000.

The plan is instead for much of the money to go toward wealthy tax cheats. IRS estimates of the so-called “tax gap” — the difference between what taxes are owed to the government and what is actually paid — is hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Much of the $80 billion will be focused on taking a bite out of the gap, focusing on wealthy tax payers. The investment is projected to pay for itself and then bring in over $100 billion in increased tax revenue over the coming decade.

By contrast, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office released Monday afternoon found that the net effect of the House GOP bill’s to defund the agency would increase the deficit by more than $114.3 billion over the coming decade if enacted…

Liars, hypocrites, cheats, and thieves…

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BREAKING: COVER UP: Lawyers Found More Classified Documents in Biden’s Private Library Than Previously Known

It should be mentioned that Hunter had no security clearance to see those documents, either. Nor his drug dealers (like the Russian ones that stole one of his laptops) or any of his whores. Yet they all had access to the documents idiot Biden stole.

US Rep. and Dr. Ronnie Jackson Says “There’s NO EXCUSE for Biden to have these HIGHLY CLASSIFIED documents.” (VIDEO)

So…

Now the new GOP-run House caused the deficit Biden and his asshats causes, publicly and irrefutably, caused over the past two years?

Hahahaha.

No.

Income Tax should be abolished. It’s unconstitutional.

I’m absolutely fine with the “deficit” is causes for these parasitic bastards in Washington.

Better a working man in Iowa keeps his money and a 1000 bureaucrats get fired than letting this totalitarian state grow any further.

The irony is that the “the working man in Iowa” is likely one of the honest taxpayers that millionaire and billionaire tax cheats are robbing. The GOP plays such people for fools. Trump is the GOP’s self-serving Judas goat; George Santos should be their new poster boy.

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Those billionaires are Democrat donors who get a pass because they are Democrat donors. They are the Clinton’s, the Zuckerburgs, Soros, Sharpton, Bezos and numerous big businesses who support Democrats but move their profits overseas (like GE). The list of Democrats that skate on their taxes is massive. Democrats want the free ride and for the working people to pay for it.

“the working man in Iowa” is likely one of the honest taxpayers that millionaire and billionaire tax cheats are robbing. 

How exactly, working men dont get much from the government they dont qualify. They get robbed every paycheck by the government. Do you really think the working people want to pay for Zelensky’s wifes shopping sprees? To support their entire government and fringes?
Apr 24, 2022Joe Biden, in one of his fogs of dementia, said on Thursday that he is pledging $1.3 billion more in assistance to Ukraine. This is added to the roughly $2.6 billion previously approved. The direct economic assistance from U.S. taxpayers to Ukraine is to pay for Ukrainian government salaries, pensions, and other programs.

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The deficit was caused when idiot Biden spent $1.7 trillion in pork and waste to buy votes and weaken the country.

Matt Gaetz is a smarmy little shit. Typically, he goes uncharged, while his procurer of underage girls takes the fall and gets convicted.

Matt Gaetz is a smarmy little shit.

You think seditious liars like Schiff are gods, so your assessment is null and absolutely void. It’s been absolutely proven that the accusations against him was a blackmail plot which was broken up by the FBI back when they were doing their job. Odd how you are always on the side of the crooks.

How is it that so many don’t recognize obvious liars and dirt bags, and then imagine upright people are scum? Gaetz’s procurer, Greenberg, got 11 years for sex trafficking a minor and obstruction of justice.

In drafts of the letter, Greenberg wrote that both he and Gaetz believed the girl was 19, and that Gaetz was “equally shocked and disturbed” to discover she was underage. Greenberg writes that he confronted the girl after learning of her real age. “She apologized and recognized that by lying about her age, she endangered many people,” he wrote. “There was no further contact with this individual until after her 18th birthday.”

Apparently paying for sex with a kid 20 years your junior is OK, so long as she’s over 18.

How is it that so many don’t recognize obvious liars and dirt bags, and then imagine upright people are scum?

Is this what you consider “upright”?
Did idiot Biden lie when he said:
… the Afghanistan withdrawal went perfectly?
… the southern border is secure?
… Border Patrol mounted agents whipped illegal immigrants?
… inflation is transient?
… gas was $5 a gallon when he took office?
… Putin caused all the inflation?
… there was no vaccine when he took office?
… he has traveled 17,000 miles with Xi?
… that there are no background checks at gun shows?
… that the Georgia election law suppresses the ability to vote?
… the “surge” of illegal immigrants he caused happens every year?
… that he would only serve one term?
… that the disaster at the border is Trump’s fault?
… that the information on Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?
… that he had no knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business deals?
… the Supreme Court had decided election fraud cases?
… that he hasn’t taken lobbyist money?
… that he vaccinated (at the time) 70% of the population?
… he has driven an 18-wheeler?
… that the Georgia election integrity law would suppress votes?
… that he was a coal miner?
… he was a civil rights activist?
… he was arrested in the Capital?
… he was arrested in S. Africa?
… 350 million Americans had been vaccinated?
… no foreign leaders had criticized him?
… about nation building and putting soldiers in Afghanistan?
… about not leaving Afghanistan until all Americans were removed?
… that the collapse in Afghanistan “caught him by surprise”?
… he visited the Tree of Life synagogue after an attack on it?
… that he was going to end COVID?
… he was working “around the clock”?
… he had an opportunity to go to Annapolis and play football?
… that the 2nd Amendment banned weapons?
… the .223 and 9mm round were the most powerful rounds?
… told union members that since he took office, they have more money, more savings?
… that he was responsible for a planned Social Security cost of living increase?
… he would fire anyone on his staff that showed disrespect to anyone?
… there was no action on COVID19 “for months” under Trump?
… Officer Sicknick was murdered at the Capital?
… Republicans were defunding police, not Democrats?
… the economy was “in a tailspin” when he took office?
… the Capital riot was the worst incident of violence since the Civil War?
… the trillions of dollars Democrats were spending would cause inflation?
… Trump said white supremacists were “fine people”?
… there were Russian bounties?
… Democrat spending would not increase the deficit?
… no one making less that $400,000 would see tax increases?
… his infrastructure bill was “paid for”?
… the majority of illegal immigrant families are sent back?
… no family members of his or staff would get government jobs?
… the government was going to “buy American”?
… that he was a member of Ukraine and Polish secret service?
,,, that he didn’t know what Top Secret documents were illegally kept in his private office or how they got there?

Plus he’s a rapist and pedophile that forced his young daughter to shower with him. Is that your idea of “upright”? How about the utter scumbag Schiff that almost destroyed the country with his lies?

You’re full of it.

Fact check him dearie, lets see you deny the lying that this admin and its absolute failures.

Why do you happily accept your god and savior idiot Biden telling so many lies, being a rapist and pedophile? You pretend that such behavior is objectionable (you make false accusations of it against those the DNC tells you to, so you KNOW it’s wrong) but you worship the people who really commit the acts. Why is that? At least you acknowledge that idiot Biden is a liar of galactic proportions.

Apparently paying for sex with a kid 20 years your junior is OK, so long as she’s over 18.

Why don’t you ask Bill Clinton and his buddy, Bill Gates, what that’s like even if the girl is UNDER 18? You don’t seem to have objections to what those two did. Of course, they’re both left wingers so child molestation is A-OK with you.

And you seem to have no objections to Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. knowing his own drug addled son is so out of line with minors he is going after his own kin.

Matt Gaetz’s own father was having blackmail threats against him, but unlike Biden, who is down for the payment to the Big Guy, Mr. Gaetz worked with the FBI.

You’re such a lying POS, Comrade Greggie.

Apparently paying for sex with a kid 20 years your junior is OK, so long as she’s over 18.

What about a kid 27 years your junior? Why don’t you ask Slick Willie who is famous for creative uses for cigars?

You just seem to love dragging up Democrat scandals, don’t you?

McCarthy Says He Will Look Into Expunging Trump’s Impeachment (VIDEO)

Those phony impeachments are a blight on our history.

But fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked the claims, and the agency itself pushed back in a Yahoo Finance op-ed from then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig in August.

These would be the same “fact checkers” that verified the “Russian collusion” lie, suppressed the Hunter laptop story, silenced anyone that suggested COVID came from China, that mentioned the proven benefits of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine or that there was ANY risk to taking repeated doses of the vaccine. In other words, try again, you strike out this time (and every time because you always believe verified bullshit).

It is confirmed that the IRS goes after the defenseless because they are the quick, easy money. Do you think there are 87,000 professional tax attorneys out their just waiting to join the IRS? No, what the idiot Biden regime is looking for is people with inferiority complexes that will go wring blood out of turnips and leave DNC donors and Democrats alone. Trump had the true formula for increasing IRS revenues: boost business and allow free enterprise to do the rest. Revenues were up under Trump and inflation was WAY down. The Democrat solution is ALWAYS to steal.

Fact checkers lie and are often off subject in their conclusions.

But fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked the claims, and the agency itself pushed back in a Yahoo Finance op-ed from then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig in August.

Oh, you mean those who the left pays to lie for a living?

Because 87,000 additional IRS agents would be harassing the lower and middle class.

The Fair Tax proposal

OFFs can she rattle on any more? A shopaholic is terrified, and wants the one party system of lockdowns and tax everything plus your income.
damn Greg please find a sane person to talk about this not some dried up feminazi that bla bla talks as fast as she can waving her manicure around..

She’s just pointing out what a patent scam the Fair Tax proposal really is, and what the fundamentally unAmerican consequences of the resulting new ruling aristocracy would be.

This even grander than the GOP’s usual scams. Nobody would escape a heavier tax burden but the wealthy, who would rapidly become even wealthier. They would have all manner of work-arounds. Huge financial transactions would be beyond the reach of a final tier of purchase consumption tax.

Getting the entire retail world on debit cards and other plastic is part of the long-tern plan. There would be no escape from whatever all the combined federal, state, and local consumption tax added up to.

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This even grander than the GOP’s usual scams. Nobody would escape a heavier tax burden but the wealthy, who would rapidly become even wealthier.

Bullshit. The left simply wants to maintain their evasion of taxes. For the vast majority, it is a wash. For the wealthy, who use lawyers and accountants to reduce their tax burden, it levels the playing field. I thought that was what whining, crybaby leftists wanted? Well, not if THEY will have to start ponying up THEIR share. Just like with illegal immigration, it’s a great idea to be all “humane” and “generous”… until THEY have to participate.

Lying hypocrites.

Yeah, the leftists that make a living suckling off the government teat don’t want to be paying their share on the beer, flat screens, expensive shoes and the latest cell phones they buy. Even if you make money under the table, you still pay taxes on purchases (except, despite idiot Biden’s lies, on food). The opposition is about the freeloaders seeing the gravy train pull out of the station without them.

You know who is going to lobby against this VAT tax is tax lawyers, CPAs, H&R Block types.
It would be nice to be able to take cash from the investments without taxes and penalties, you know stimulate the real economy by building a new garage or remodel the kitchen.
Greg has little to say about the GOP taking out the trash from the committees.

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Democratic government is all that stands between the common man and total domination by an increasingly ravenous and predatory corporate America.

Democratic government is all that stands between the common man and total domination by an increasingly ravenous and predatory corporate America.

And the threat to us is the Democrats. They threaten our right to self defense, free speech, freedom of religion, right to a speedy and fair trial, right to privacy, basically they threaten life, liberty and any pursuit of happiness they don’t approve of.

We have a constitutional republic and Democrats threaten the Constitution. Democrats hate it, just as they hate democracy itself, for they cannot abide by the majority of Americans rejecting their leftist, fascist, totalitarian agenda.

That is why they steal elections. Right mind thinking Americans would not energetically vote for suicidal policies.

Only those that have been indoctrinated to hate this country, thinks it should be punished and want to see it destroyed support these Democrats.

100%
And the left is more than willing to add gas to an already burning bonfire.