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Title: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: mystery-ak on January 25, 2023, 02:27:53 am

Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
By Bonchie | 9:00 PM on January 24, 2023

As RedState reported on Monday, Kevin McCarthy was left at a crossroads after Hakeem Jeffries attempted to reappoint Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff to the House Intelligence Committee. In a brazen letter, Jeffries demanded Swalwell and Schiff be reinstated, appealing to the very House tradition of minority deference Democrats had thoroughly shredded during the prior congress.

The minority leader also tried to draw a distinction between the behavior of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Swalwell and Schiff. What he didn’t mention is that the actions of the two California Democrats in question were far more dangerous and egregious. In Swalwell’s case, he’s been credibly accused of having an affair with a Chinese spy.

Now, McCarthy has responded to Jeffries with a simple answer: Pound sand.

https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1618047779422769154

There are some on the right who live to be upset, and no matter what McCarthy does, they are going to hate him, call him a RINO, and accuse him of being an establishment shill. Objectively, though, things are going pretty well so far, aren’t they? He’s kept his promise on the new Church Commission, appointing a Republican murderers’ row to it. He got the new rules package passed despite many doubting he could hold the caucus together. Further, as this article notes, he’s now made good on his pledge to boot Swalwell and Schiff from the Intelligence Committee.

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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/24/kevin-mccarthy-tells-hakeem-jeffries-what-he-can-do-with-his-intel-committee-demands-n693426

Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 02:38:59 am

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Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 02:49:22 am

"Holy shit. Kevin McCarthy just absolutely destroyed a reporter who questioned his decision to remove Schiff and Swalwell from the intel committee.  Total annihilation". (Video)

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1618061588375932929

Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 03:13:22 am

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Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 03:14:54 am

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Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 03:19:05 am

"This is a crisis. With @RepAdamSchiff no longer on House Intel, who will release the still-secret "more than circumstantial evidence" of Trump-Russia collusion that he claimed to have found all the way back in March 2017?" (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1618074653628694528

Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: corbe on January 25, 2023, 03:38:31 am

   Thank You Freedom Caucus for stealing McCarthy's cajónes from the Trumpers and the RINO's  (so far).

Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 25, 2023, 03:53:24 am

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell are central players in the corruption and politicization of the Intelligence Community: exactly that which the new Church Committee must investigate.

McCarthy should -- and will -- use Pelosi's new precedent to reject them.

3:34 PM · Jan 23, 2023

Title: Re: Kevin McCarthy Tells Hakeem Jeffries What He Can Do With His Intel Committee Demands
Post by: Sighlass on January 25, 2023, 05:21:56 am

Trying hard to think of a democrat I would trust in the position.... McCarthy says there is 200 more democrats qualified... Yeah... No...