Saturday, January 28, 2023

Democrats Hate Being Held to Their Own Standards: Committee Assignments Edition

 In 2016, I made the case that Senate Republicans should force Democrats to live under their own power-hungry rules.

  • I urged Republicans to enact the Harry Reid standard and change the Senate rules to confirm Gorsuch, thus fulfilling McConnell's famous prophesy that his colleagues across the aisle would come to regret the day they'd nuked the filibuster on executive and judicial nominations.

If Democrats didn't want Republican leaders to pick and choose which of their members could serve on certain committees, they should have left those decisions to the GOP in the last Congress.

  • Henry Rodgers
  • Once the die was cast on the other side, it became inevitable that reprisals would follow

New House Rules: Speaker McCarthy formally kicks Congressman Schiff and Swalwell off Intelligence Committee

  • Because politicians will always find justifications for their moves beyond "they asked for it," there are substantive reasons behind each of these decisions
  • Omar is an unrepentant bigot.
  • Schiff used his top perch on the Intelligence Committee to wage partisan war, including repeatedly lying about Trump-Russia "collusion," even after that explosive claim had been debunked by the Mueller investigation
  • If Democrats hadn't meddled in the House GOP's affairs last Congress, McCarthy would have let things lie

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/01/26/democrats-hate-being-held-to-their-own-standards-committee-assignments-edition-n2618732

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