{"id":1121097,"date":"2023-01-27T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/democrats-hate-being-held-to-their-own-standards-committee-assignments-edition\/1121097\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:10:28","slug":"democrats-hate-being-held-to-their-own-standards-committee-assignments-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/democrats-hate-being-held-to-their-own-standards-committee-assignments-edition\/1121097\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Hate Being Held To Their Own Standards: Committee Assignments Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democrats Hate Being Held To Their Own Standards: Committee Assignments Edition<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Guy Benson, op-ed via Townhall.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Back in 2016, with a presidential election underway,\u00a0I made the case<\/a>\u00a0that Senate Republicans should force Democrats to live under their own power-hungry rules. \u00a0<\/strong>They should do so, I said, by applying the\u00a0Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer standards<\/a>\u00a0to the newly-created Supreme Court vacancy, following the death of the late great Justice Antonin Scalia. \u00a0Then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did precisely that, holding the seat open until after the election, paving the way for President Trump’s trio of superb SCOTUS nominations. \u00a0The Democrats got red in the face and stomped their feet, but after decades of\u00a0hyper-partisan, unilateral escalations<\/a>\u00a0in the judicial confirmation wars, they were merely getting a taste of their own medicine. \u00a0<\/p>\n

When Democrats attempted to filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to fill that seat, I\u00a0urged Republicans<\/a>\u00a0to enact the Harry Reid standard and change the Senate rules to confirm Gorsuch. \u00a0They did so<\/a>, thus fulfilling McConnell’s\u00a0famous prophesy<\/a>\u00a0that his colleagues across the aisle would come to rue the day they’d nuked the filibuster on executive and judicial nominations, for short-term partisan gain (eliminating a tool of the minority\u00a0they’d abused<\/a>\u00a0for years while it benefited them). \u00a0In Washington, no one squeals louder than a Democrat held to his or her own standards. \u00a0A few Democrats\u00a0mumbled about ‘regrets’<\/a>\u00a0after their GOP colleagues pressed the Reid Rule button, but nearly all Senate Democrats now favor doubling down even further by jettisoning the legislative filibuster, which they’ve called a racist vestige, even as they’ve repeatedly used it themselves. \u00a0Expect some of them to change their tune if and when they\u00a0lose the Senate majority<\/a>\u00a0in 2024. \u00a0They never fully learn, which is why the teachable moments need to be clear and painful for them.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the current contretemps over committee assignments in the House of Representatives. <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democrats are hopping mad that Speaker Kevin McCarthy is moving to boot Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee, and that Ilhan Omar may be stripped of her slot on the Foreign Affairs Committee. \u00a0We’ll see if he\u00a0has the votes<\/a>\u00a0to do so. [ZH: he did and they were stripped of their positions]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last Congress, Democrats — then in the majority — stripped two Republicans of their committee assignments, due to offensive statements they’d made. \u00a0Dozens of House Democrats,\u00a0led by the Squad<\/a>, agitated for another GOP member to lose her committees, as well. \u00a0At the time, nearly every Republican in Washington, including many of those not inclined to defend their sanctioned colleagues, warned that if Pelosi and her party went down this path, the shoe would end up on the other foot. \u00a0If Democrats wanted break with tradition and wrest certain committee assignment decisions from the minority party, they would be answered in kind at the earliest opportunity. <\/strong>\u00a0And here we are. \u00a0In case you missed it, McCarthy was badgered about his decisions on this front by a journalist this week, using George Santos as the hook for her objections. \u00a0Conservatives quickly started circulating his response, which\u00a0Julio wrote up<\/a>\u00a0yesterday:<\/p>\n

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Wow. McCarthy responds to a question about removing Schiff and Swalwell from the Intelligence committees and Santos. pic.twitter.com\/f00hE2K21K<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) January 25, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I\u00a0said on Fox Business<\/a>, some of this is the ‘play stupid games, win stupid prizes’ effect. \u00a0If 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. <\/strong>\u00a0Once the die was cast on the other side, it became inevitable that reprisals would follow:<\/p>\n

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NEW HOUSE RULES: Speaker McCarthy formally kicks Congressman Schiff and Swalwell off Intelligence Committee @guypbenson<\/a> reacts on @Varneyco<\/a> #FoxBusiness<\/a> #McCarthy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WbhnkvRhL3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Guy Benson Show (@GuyBensonShow) January 25, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And because politicians will always find justifications for their moves beyond “they asked for it,” there are substantive reasons behind each of these decisions. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Omar is an\u00a0unrepentant bigot<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Swalwell is a smarmy mud-flinger who ‘became close’ with, and was allegedly compromised by, a Chinese spy. \u00a0He cites news ‘fact checks’ in his defense, but McCarthy says the\u00a0FBI briefing he received<\/a>\u00a0on the underlying intelligence vindicate his call to keep the California Democrat away from sensitive national secrets. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And Adam Schiff used his top perch on the Intelligence Committee to wage partisan war, including repeatedly lying about Trump-Russia “collusion,”\u00a0even\u00a0<\/a>after<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that explosive claim had been\u00a0debunked<\/a>\u00a0by the Mueller investigation. \u00a0Schiff is angry<\/a>. \u00a0Maybe he should have lied less, and maybe he should have told his party not to travel down this path, given the guaranteed tit-for-tat that would ensue \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If Democrats hadn’t meddled in the House GOP’s affairs last Congress, McCarthy would probably have let things lie, despite the case against all three (would-be) booted members. \u00a0But Pelosi and company pried open this Pandora’s box, and now they may have to live with the results. <\/strong>\u00a0Enjoy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 01\/27\/2023 – 19:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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