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Matt Gaetz Is the Perfect Attorney General Nominee
There is no better candidate than Matt Gaetz, who has stared down the barrel of the corrupt Biden/Garland DoJ through every threat and slander. They were able to tarnish his reputation, but his character remains untainted. He refused to bend the knee to his slanderers, who failed to even bring charges. But there are people who count themselves informed by their devotion to the New York Times and the Washington Post, and therefore, a story like this won’t go away. The Federalist editor-in-chief, Mollie Hemingway, wrote conclusively on this question before it was a question, in the Fall of 2022. (Read the whole thing, it’s our republic that is on the line.)
The story begins with a feisty congressman who defends his president against the preposterous Russia Collusion Hoax, and goes on to pull the curtain back on the historically shoddy Ukraine impeachment attempt. From the Federalist article:
When Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., held secret hearings, selectively released information, and lied about coordination with the so-called whistleblower during the Ukraine impeachment hearings, Gaetz led a group of Republican congressmen in protest. The move, which enraged the corporate media and other partisans, helped unify Republicans in their eventual defeat of the impeachment stunt.
Then there was the January 6 riot at the Capitol, after which Rep. Gaetz persisted in raising the very real issues in the 2020 election (see Rigged by Mollie Hemingway, the bill of 2020 election horribles, which Trump cited to Joe Rogan). He also helped bring attention to the systemic suspension of civil rights for anyone the DoJ tagged as connected to January 6.
And back when the Cheney family were still a force in American politics—from the Federalist article:
When Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., received praise from Beltway insiders for leading a small group of Republicans to join the Democrats’ second impeachment of President Trump, Gaetz immediately went to Wyoming to rally Republicans. The two had repeatedly sparred over Cheney’s support for lengthy and poorly managed foreign wars that Gaetz said did not serve American interests.
“We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party, and I intend to win it,” he said at a Jan. 28, 2021, rally in Cheyenne, long before she would be ousted from her leadership position in the House Republican conference. “You can help me break a corrupt system. You can send a representative who actually represents you, and you can send Liz Cheney home — back home to Washington, D.C.” Harriet Hageman delivered a humiliating primary defeat of Cheney less than two years later.
It was no surprise when the usual tools went to work:
A group of New York Times reporters who won awards for their roles pushing the Russia collusion lie penned an anonymously sourced article with a devastating headline: “Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl.” The story was sourced to “three people briefed on the matter,” none of them identified in any way. The story contained no evidence against Gaetz of sex crimes, but much guilt-by-association. Late in the story, the pack of reporters admitted that no charges had been filed and that the “extent of his criminal exposure is unclear.”
Mollie Hemingway tells a tale of her training as a rookie journalist in the corporate world. If one were to quote the New York Times or the Washington Post, a journalist was safe from a libel charge. For decades, judges throughout the land have, regardless of party, treated these institutions as infallible fountains of truth.
The Gaetz confirmation hearings will either be quick and routine, or they will be a full-throated airing of the volumes of evidence against the Garland DoJ and the suspicious collusion of our fourth estate. I leave you with this thought:
Published in PoliticsWhat a grotesque thing for anyone, let alone a lawyer like @DWUhlfelderLaw, to say. By this warped reasoning, we should assume all of Daniel's clients are guilty, and that anyone who ever hires private lawyers are guilty, too. Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/rbbXq47Kla
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2021
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Thank you for bringing more light to the slanders and abuse the DOJ together with the scurrilous press have heaped onto Gaetz. It is the same playbook they used on Trump, Russia, Russia, Russia, except in stead of Prostitutes peeing on a bed, it was something underage, nameless allegations.
“The seriousness of the allegations, make him unconfirmable” Even though there is zero evidence that any of it has any truth.
Mollie was taking Jim Geraghty to task on Twitter this morning. Jim was on Hugh Hewitt’s show making fun of Gaetz and repeating it on Twitter. There might be reasons to oppose Gaetz’s nomination. Repeating Democrat slander isn’t one of them.
https://twitter.com/acpandy/status/1857099147729330539
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1857083447325475214
It’s a very good point that all slurs on Gaetz are disproven at this point. Any assumption that he has a dubious past is wrong.
The Usual Suspects:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/here-we-go-rino-senators-murkowski-collins-say/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-cornyn-says-he-absolutely-wants-review-ethics/
Yes, Sen. Cornyn, let’s air all of the secret defamations intended to unseat or, failing that, to silence Rep. Gaetz. And their sources and motivations. Because they certainly and abjectly failed to silence the man, and now he has the opportunity to clear his name in the open light of day.
And if Gaetz had Murkowski and Collins in his camp, it would be cause for concern.
Best Attorney General nomination ever.
Man, I detest Cornyn. He jumped on the Dem gun legislation because he had 5 years for people to forget. He will get primaried hard next time he is up. I predict retirement.
Texans have long memories. Lamar Smith (now Chip Roy’s district) did some real squishy gun stuff and in his next primary an unknown got 30 percent of the vote. Smith was born again, hard, and never went back.
If you can kick liars out of congress, like George Santos. Why is Adam Schiff still there?
If they kicked all of the liars out, there would be no one to turn out the lights.
Republican Senators not likely to vote for Gaetz: Collins, Murkowski, and possibly McConnell.
J.D. Vance may need to be on hand to break a tie vote.
When Gaetz blew up the House last year, I demanded a refund of the $200 I had donated to his campaign, but I never heard back. I get the impression he was taken aback by the blowback he got from his supporters.
True. But there is a difference in quantity and on the record. It just seems like another double standard. If republicans took the hit and lost a seat over it – the Demons should as well.
I voted for Donald J. Trump for POTUS. I did so for many reasons, one of which is I have seen him in this job before and, in the teeth of constant backstabbing, I believe he did an excellent job. All of these cabinet positions are people who will be working for Trump. I have no idea what qualifications were defined for these positions, but it is my understanding that he has set up a team to study the applicants. He has made his choices. It is understandably fun for us to parry back and forth in discussing these decisions but after the unbelievably energetic and incredibly heroic effort Trump has made in the past couple of years to stand in front of the out of control boulder that is our country as it descends into oblivion and attempt to stop it, and WIN, I have no desire to criticize the people he believes will help him be successful before the Boss has even been inaugurated. I look forward to being pleasantly surprised by the avalanche of successes.
The Bee weighs in, because of course they do.
McCarthy said in the L. A. Times that the Senate will block the Gaetz nomination. I guess McCarthy is not content to ride off into the sunset. How does this “recess appointment” tactic work? Was Congressman Massie correct in saying that the Senate would roll over? On X, Massie said, “We recess . . . Gaetz is your AG . . . Suck it up. “
There will be no recesses…unless Senate Leadership plays ball with Trump (to circumvent or protect?) the Progressive enablers on our side of the aisle.
I think if they start pro-forma sessions to prevent a recess, get a dozen senators to show up – and start moving business in an empty chamber. (I think you need a dozen for a quorum) If they worry that they’ll get burned by the pro forma sessions they’ll stop doing them.
I am not in sympathy with Massie’s macho flash, it is a game and both sides have moves they can play. Some of these nominees are an opportunity to air matters in confirmation hearings. Gaetz and Kennedy will be worth arranging a seat in the Senate gallery. (The last time I was there they were debating the Reagan era’s amnesty bill.)
The off-year is coming fast, and MAGA primary challengers are already queueing up for their shot.
There’s desire and there’s political reality.
All it will take is 4 votes in the Senate to sink a Gaetz confirmation. Two Republican senators have already expressed that they won’t vote for him. Two more Republican senators may soon go on the record soon to express their unwillingness. There are a lot of qualified attorneys in America, some of whom are actually conservatives (go figure), who would be happy to clean house at the DOJ and FBI. Was Ken Paxton on Trump’s short list?
Not all noes are final. The game is afoot.
Our republic is imperfect and we tend to eschew the small changes, or maybe we don’t notice them because they are gradual. Eventually, we reach a crisis phase where a correction cannot be avoided and we’re there now. Gaetz, Hegseth, Kennedy, Massie…these are appointments with common intent: reset, reduce, and re-orient the government.
Nominating someone who was a target of the agency he’ll run is a good thing. We think government needs this tool or that tool to do Job X, but it’s time to rediscover the limits with regard to the citizenry (at minimum). Moreover, a leaner, perhaps more problem-solving oriented government is going to be much better at adjusting to asymmetrical external threats. Put simply, the government needs a new way of doing business. To put it in business parlance, it needs to refocus on its external clients and stop serving itself.
I’m for Gaetz and all the rest.
Senators are sworn in by the VP on Jan. 3rd with Thune as Senate majority leader, I believe, but I won’t be reading Robert’s Rules of Order now, and if a motion to recess requires a majority vote, I suspect you are correct.
If you want the man to cook the meal, you have to let him pick the ingredients. Somebody said something like that once. Of course, the first rule of DC is argue about everything all the time as if you mean it. The second rule involves donor satisfaction ranked by donation amount. I might have the order reversed. Consistency is not often observed in the Great Columbia Swamp on the Potomac.
It’s (D)ifferent when they do it.
Stolen.
I had a larger version, but can’t find it now.