House Republicans Reportedly Looking to Expel Gaetz By Using Findings from Upcoming Ethics Report: ‘No One Can Stand Him’
House Republicans Reportedly Looking to Expel Gaetz By Using Findings from Upcoming Ethics Report: ‘No One Can Stand Him’
As Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) launches his rebellion against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), multiple reports indicate that House Republicans are looking to get rid of the Florida congressman altogether. According to a report from CNN, an unnamed House Republican said that the caucus wants Gaetz go...
I love that “No one can stand him” Is a good reason for expulsion. The human trafficking wasn’t enough.
Fucking a teenager is why Republicans want to allow child marriage. His only crime to them was not marrying her after he trafficked her. That's forgivable. Being unbearable might possibly not be.
Rape, fraud, etc is fine because it doesn't affect them. Him causing the Reps to not vote uniformly and needing Dem help is a catastrophe.
Bible also says the rapee must marry the rapist. Surprised the evangelicals aren’t pushing that one too.
And if he isn't a Russian asset, he certainly acts like one.
Of course not, Republicans only pay lip service to children, just ask Dennis Hastert
I mean I loathe all of them too, but the rest of the quote is about his morals, and it's the results of that investigation that they intend to base this on.
Human trafficking is a bonus in their books, but he was mean to them and that will not stand!
Andrew Johnson's impeachment included:
. . . as well before as afterwards, make and declare, with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues, and therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces, as well against Congress as the laws of the United States duly enacted thereby, amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes then assembled in hearing, which are set forth in the several specifications hereinafter written, in substance and effect . . .
Which is 19th century formal language for "this guy is an asshole".
Mind you, the Senate never voted on this particular article, and Johnson was otherwise acquitted. It remains unclear if you can remove a President for being an asshole, but there is some precedent that suggests you can.
No on can stand him
Get rid of him
He fucks an underage prostitute
crickets
If they aren't getting rid of George Santos they are not getting rid of Matt Gaetz. Honor among theives.
I think the difference is that Santos is willing to go along with whatever the Republicans think will keep their majority. Gaetz is willing to burn it all down if it gets him extra social media points right now.
This isn't really about ethics violations, it's about a Republican threatening his party's chances of keeping power.
It's nice that the House has its own Ted Cruz.
"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." - Al Franken
Al Franken probably doesn't like Matt Gaetz more than most members of Congress, though.
He has a very punchable face.
There's just something wrong with his face. It's like some alien put together a human but they'd only ever heard descriptions.
The GOP made their bed with Gaetz, now sleep with him.
Or however that saying goes.
Sorry, the GOP is too old for Gaetz to want to sleep with them.
The average GOP senator is 65+ years old - that's about 10x too old for Gaetz to be interested in sleeping with them.
I don't think they let 13 year old boys be congresspeople.
but only if he pays them using venmo..... and they are 14
This guy tries to exert way too much influence for someone who only won his last race because both candidates were under active criminal investigation.
Seems like the timing is a little off on the third criminal investigation.
A pox on both houses
Let them destroy each other. I'll make popcorn.
I do bite my thumb sir
I fart in their general direction.
Ahhh yes. Now his politics don't align with yours, his ethics finally matter. Classic.
No one can stand Gaetz and his inner circle. They are fucking immature assholes.
Some of them literally, I suspect.
That's the joke.
I'll believe it when I see it.
House republicans hate paedo gaetz in the same way everyone in America hates house republicans. No one can stand any of those pricks either.
No one can stand him? For a lot of us he’s more the face of the Republicans than McCarthy or McConnell
I can't stand any of them
Do Ted Cruz next.
this party supports and protects George Santos.
Cause George knows to shut the fuck up and vote properly, they care fuck all about who the politician is as long as they vote along party lines.
I can't stand looking at his stupid face either
He looks like a big toe with a face.
He has a very punchable face.
You can tell his
momlab attendant drank quite a bit while he was in vitro.
Just compile a list of things he accuses Democrats of, and you know what to look for in his case.
Right? The projection is crazy.
I'm sure Faux News will hire DollarStore Beavis right away.
Get it straight--he looks more like Dollar Store Butthead.
If he's against the party I see Fox news turning on him very shortly
They're about to pay out the ass to Smartmatic. They won't be able to afford him.
If they do and don't elect a Republican to replace him, and if they expel Santos and his replacement in the special election isn't a republican, there goes the GOP majority
Odds of the house GOP giving up their majority/control are exceedingly low. If there's one thing they'll prioritize, it's keeping their own power
I increasingly believe that they don't actually care. For the hardliners, keeping a majority is like a distant second place motivation to just keeping their own jobs, and they are under bigger threat from the right in these districts. Really, the house majority probably ranks like third or fourth somewhere between "get book deal where the RNC buys 100k copies" and "take bribes from Russia." All things which are arguably easier as an opposition party which doesn't actually have to govern.
How very...Late Roman Republic.
Dude is literally Rudy Russo from Used Cars (1980).
Just a plain scumbag salesman trying to be a Senator.
"Come on, trust me!"
Oh, how I would love to see this.
Hope they pull the trigger simultaneously.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8a314411-14ca-49c6-b706-734077e1ef2e.jpeg
I was picturing the Reservoir Dogs scene. I'll take either.
I say we go further and just get rid of Florida all together.
Yup we should sell it off as it's just a loss. Sell it to Mexico.
Give it to Cuba as reparations for the embargo lasting 30 years after the Soviet Union fell.
If we could invent something like a Valdosta Canal connecting Mobile to Savannah, I'd be in to that.
Currently my dream is just to get rid of the Confederate states while keeping the port of New Orleans and navigation rights to the Mississippi River. Then merge all of the states in the middle of the country that have more cows than people into a single state.
Then we're be ready to rock.
So the useful idiot has served his purpose and is no Ionger useful?
