Pierce: Matt Gaetz Thinks His Audience Is as Big a Box of Rocks as He Is
Matt Gaetz Thinks His Audience Is as Big a Box of Rocks as He Is
One of Trump's prime congressional flunkies makes a scene.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 14, 2019
Is Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) the biggest schmuck currently gracing the halls of Congress?
Opinions vary. But not by much.
On Monday morning, Fiona Hill, the administration*'s former Russia expert, came to Capitol Hill to testify in closed session to the House Oversight and Intelligence Committees regarding the president*'s attempt at running a protection racket on Ukraine. Gaetz is a member of neither committee, but he showed up anyway, obviously as a mole on behalf of Camp Runamuck. Acting perfectly within the rules of the House, the committees threw his truckling ass out. Gaetz immediately found a bank of microphones in front of which to drive the nails into his own palms....
You may recall that it was Gaetz who Tweeted out what could only be interpreted as a threat toward Michael Cohen before the latter testified to the Judiciary Committee. That episode was referred to the Florida Bar Association in a complaint that charged Gaetz with with witness tampering. The Florida Bar cleared Gaetz because, well, Florida, but it did hurl a handful of uncomplimentary adjectives at him. It's important to remember that any articles of impeachment that are forthcoming will have to go through the House Judiciary Committee of which Gaetz is a member and, as such, he has to be allowed into the room. Where it happens. And people say vaudeville is dead....
When the final history of this historical malignancy is written, this argument that Schiff's comic paraphrase of the president*'s guilt-laden telephone call was a "false transcript" is going to be reckoned as one of the dumbest things they ever got the MAGAs to swallow, much less one of the dumbest chunks of pure mendacity ever to emerge from Congress. For one thing none of us has seen the actual transcript of the call. What Camp Runamuck released was something close to a memorandum of the conversation, and it was still enough to touch off a legitimate impeachment inquiry. The idea that Schiff read "a false transcript into the record" is proof enough that Gaetz believes his audience is as big a box of rocks as he is.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29461933/matt-gaetz-crash-fiona-hill-testimony-congress/
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I STILL
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I'm just glad they play congress-critters and don't mess with subatomic particles.....
...to see which late-night show will feature the Chyron “Gaetz-Crasher.”
Well done, Charlie. You’re still one of my favorite MU J-school classmates. But you owe me a new iPhone: mine got an IPA shower when I read (R-Breathalyzer).
They also said, though, that Gaetz was there for the theatrics.
get in were any better off than Gaetz was. I really love these closed sessions because it takes away all the Republican grandstanding for the TV cameras, making the Republicans participation irrelevant, and we are still getting the testimony and evidence we need.