From today’s NY Times (well said by Michelle Cottle):
Mr. Jordan clearly fancies himself more of a Trumpian strongman. He has never been a leader or a serious legislator but is, rather, a career pugilist who seems developmentally stuck in his glory days as a high school and college wrestler. When nominating him on the House floor Tuesday, Elise Stefanik (one of the more painful cautionary tales about the corrosiveness of Trumpism) felt compelled to cite his mad skills “on the wrestling mat.”
The pugnacious pugilist’s entire brand is being a brazen bully who can never be pinned down, who is not afraid to stutter, tap dance and angrily defy when he finds himself in a tight corner (like answering questions about his involvement in the boss’s plan to keep himself in power illegally). Sounds like the ideal candidate to broker political deals and make the hard calls about where to compromise and where to fight to the death, no? The main thing, of course, is that the little bastard simply cannot be pinned down.
In 2017, former Republican House speaker John Boehner told journalist Tim Alberta: “Jordan was a terrorist as a legislator going back to his days in the Ohio House and Senate…. A terrorist. A legislative terrorist.” In 2021, he clarified: “I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart—never building anything, never putting anything together.”
Change the Senate rules to remove the ability of one random bigoted misogynistic obstructionist moron from blocking all military promotions because he loves fetuses.
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Clearly, the mad former reality TV star and very stable genius, under increasing pressure by the day, is calling the chaotic shots in the Chaos Caucus. He would like to replace his spineless Kevin with a stronger, more loyal, pugnacious, ever-fighting bantam rooster, Jim Jordan. Jordan’s claim to fame, outside of always showing up to work in shirtsleeves, is that as a collegiate wrestler he was never pinned, never lost a match, his record was something like 100-0. The crablike Jordan was born to grapple, though he took a pass at passing the bar exam after law school. Good to know your strengths and weaknesses.
Jordan tap-danced, stuttering in response to a FOX reporter’s question on live TV about how many times and exactly when he talked to the Boss on January 6th, the day Chrumpie urged the angry patriots of MAGA to fight like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore. Jordan later wiped his ass with a subpoena from his House colleagues, wasn’t referred for criminal charges like Bannon and Navarro, and, after the RED WAVE gave MAGA a narrow House majority, became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Now he’s the one with subpoena power, so there! This was part of his reward for his steadfast loyalty to the man he tried to help overturn American democracy back on patriotic January 6, 2021.
We know Jordan was among the loyal insurrectionist Republicans in Congress who Chrumpie told his DOJ would “do the rest”, carry out the batshit crazy plan to decertify Biden’s electoral college victory, throw it back to the states, the “Green Bay Sweep” we heard Peter Navarro discuss with Ari Melber, like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Here is the great Heather Cox Richardson quoting Liz Cheney, 99% hateful in most of her political positions, 100% on the money in regard to the danger posed by the insane wannabe dictator and his fungible, disposable, endlessly power-craving myrmidons:
Trump today endorsed Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) for the speakership. There is an important history to this endorsement. On January 11, 2021—five days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol and the attempt of some Republican lawmakers to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election—Trump awarded Jordan the Medal of Freedom without a real explanation of why he deserved it.
On January 6, 2021, then-Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) told Jordan to get away from her because “You f*ck*ng did this!”
Yesterday, in a speech at the University of Minnesota, Cheney explained: “Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for January 6 than any other member of the House of Representatives. Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election…. There was a handful of people, of which he was the leader, who knew what Donald Trump had planned. Now somebody needs to ask Jim Jordan, ‘Why didn’t you report to the Capitol Police what you knew Donald Trump had planned? You were in those meetings at the White House.’”
She concluded: “If the Republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be the Speaker of the House…there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
Heather raises an important question, why was Jordan given the Medal of Freedom, instead of a full pre-emptive pardon and a million dollar job in a think tank created just for him? I guess we’d have to hold a seance and ask Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh.
President Donald Trump awarded conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at the State of the Union address on Feb. 4. The White House website says the award is for people “who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Despite his support for Kevin McCarthy in the 2023 Speaker of the House of Representatives election, including nominating McCarthy on the second ballot, Jordan was nominated on the second ballot by Representative Matt Gaetz. He received 19 votes, enough to deny McCarthy the speakership in the second round.[54] Jordan was nominated again on the third ballot by Chip Roy.[55] He won 20 votes in the third ballot, with Byron Donalds switching from McCarthy to Jordan. This was enough to necessitate a fourth ballot, but Jordan got no votes on ballots 4 through 11, as all his supporters switched to Donalds. On the 12th ballot, Gaetz nominated Jordan again. He received four votes, enough to necessitate a 13th ballot when combined with the three for Kevin Hern. He was not nominated on the 13th or 14th ballot, but received six and two votes on each, respectively.
After the House removed McCarthy from the speakership on October 3, 2023, Jordan launched a bid for the speakership.[56][57]
The name of the political party might change, but Nazis will be Nazis.
After only a few hours lapping at the crusty posterior of his master, shortly after the riot at the Capitol, no more worries about a deadly attack on democracy, fake smiles all around!
On second thought, McCarthy’s expression can be read as the expression of a spineless man on his way to hell.Now it’s time for him to join his fellow “Tea Party” “young guns” Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan.
Mar-a-lago is worth over 1.5 billion dollars, that’s why I pay property tax on $18 million, you ignorant suckers. I informed every customer that I am probably lying in my financials, so if they believe me, they’re the one committing the crime. You’re all commies.
Sad to say, the only path back to power for these populist heroes is blood running in the streets. They are doing everything possible to make the angriest and most unstable crack, before turning their Second Amendment right against themselves. Heaven help us all.
You can spend hundreds of millions smearing Senator Whitehouse and others who would have the truth of this shrewdly engineered, sinisterly orchestrated rottenness laid out before the American people, but you can’t actually dispute his argument here.
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