Republican Echo Chamber Politics

By Robin Itzler

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Going After Gaetz, Going After Maga

When Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress, it was assumed the House Ethics Committee would not release its report because he was no longer a member of the House. But after a secret vote, that’s exactly what the House Ethics Committee did on December 23. Since it was a secret vote (cough-cough), should we assume that the two Republicans on the committee who are loyal allies of ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy voted to embarrass Gaetz? They are:

• Ohio Representative Dave Joyce:  Email (media): sarah.young@mail.house.gov,  Phone: 202-225-5731, Write: 2065 Rayburn House Office Bldg, Washington, DC 20515 
• New York Representative Andrew Garbarino: Email: Click here for form, Phone: 202-225-7896,  Write: 2344 Rayburn House Office Bldg., Washington, DC 20515

Until we rid Congress of RINOs, having the “majority” isn’t going to mean that much. If you want to share your thoughts with Reps. Joyce and Garbarino, remember it was a secret vote.

Mollie Hemingway posted on X on the day the report was released:

“Sometimes I feel like I was the only reporter to look into details of the Gaetz allegations. That’s how I learned the accuser is in prison for making the same false sex-with-minors accusation against someone else.”

Patriot Neighbors reached out to a national opinion writer who asked to remain anonymous about the report. This was their comment:

“Gaetz wasn't allowed to mount a defense to the ethics committee. There was no due process, so nothing is believable.”

Gaetz said the same on X:

“There is a reason they did this to me in a Christmas Eve report and not in a courtroom of any kind where I could present evidence and challenge witnesses.”

As I see it, these McCarthy acolytes represent echo chamber politics where the resonance is pure stupidity and ignorance, and they don't represent a winning strategy.  Think about this. They railed at Matt Gaetz and his Heroic Eight for daring to stand against the time, vilifying and condemning them, but what happens after the next election in two years and more conservatives take seats in the House?  Gaetz and his supporters were the heroes, Joyce, my Rep., and that entire crowd are disgraceful.   

"Treason is an ugly word and an even uglier crime. In simple language treason is the act of betraying one’s country to those who would destroy it and enslave its people. This definition is so simple that leftwing sophisticated journalists sneer at it. To them treason is merely relative with one country’s traitor being another country’s hero. This is the appalling moral and intellectual state of current Western journalism. The moral rot runs so deep that one despairs of living long enough to see any improvement." - Gerard Jackson