Remember that kid who got elected to Congress from North Carolina when no one was paying attention for a minute? Madison Cawthorn. He wasn’t any crazier or more heinous than his pals Marjorie Traitor Greene, Matt Gaetz or Lauren Boebert. In fact, in the beginning he hadn’t even found his MAGAt identity. Trump had endorsed Mark Meadow’s wife’s real estate agent and canasta partner in the primary. But the home-schooled Cawthorn soon sank to the bottom of the barrel and hooked up with the QAnon psychos… and there was no holding him back after he got a taste of cable news and podcast fame.
And then he stepped over the line. He admitted Republicans were snorting coke in his presence and that then whip-to-be Patrick McHenry invited him to an orgy (for 2). And BOOM! The world fell right on top of him. This wasn’t like accusing the Biden family of [fill in the blank]… this was ratting out your own team. They dumped him without glancing back and brought in some garden-variety quieter right wing nut, Chuck Edwards… and Madison moved down to Florida, where his brand of lunacy fits in better.
And that brings us to rural Tennessee crackpot Tim Burchett, the guy McCarthy elbowed in the kidneys. Earlier today, Jonathan Nicholson reported that Burchett told HuffPost that “he stands by recent remarks in which he said some of his fellow members were likely victims of blackmail. Like Cawthorn, he’s refused to say who. Cawthorn didn’t give up McHenry until McCarthy forced him to. On Thursday Burchett said “You as a member of the media understand confidentiality, and I appreciate that, and I am going to keep that confidential unless those people tell me otherwise.”
[A]sked if he believed there were House members who had decided how to vote based on compromising material about them held by foreign powers, Burchett said, “Absolutely. And other powers. It doesn’t have to be foreign powers.”
On The Benny Show podcast, hosted by Benny Johnson, Burchett said, without pointing to specific evidence or names, that powerful people protect their own interests by blackmail.
“The old honey pot. The Russians do that. And I’m sure members of Congress have been caught up. Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress?” he asked.
He said members may be on a trip or at a bar, meet someone and buy them a drink.
“Next thing you know, you’re in a hotel room with them, naked. Next thing you know, you’re about to make a key vote, and what happens? Some well-dressed person comes up and whispers into your ear, ‘Hey, man, there’s tapes out on you. Were you in a motel room on whatever with whoever?’ And then you’re, like, ‘Uh-oh.’ And they say, ‘You really ought not be voting for this thing.’”
“They know what to get at. If it’s women, drugs, booze— it’ll find you in D.C. And other elected offices,” he told Johnson.
…“They’re not all crooked. The vast majority of people up here do the right thing. They just get caught in bad situations. That’s all,” he said.
With only 366 days (this is a leap year), there are too many nazi NOIX to only have one per day.
per day in the decade? maybe too many even for that.
or, occam's razor, it's just plain olde-fascioned corruption. Like when wall street bought obamanation in 2008 and he and your hapless worthless feckless corrupt neoliberal fascist pussy democraps refused to do the following after their crash:
1) prosecute anyone at all for $21 trillion in fraud
2) re-apply useful laws/regs to banking and other finance that slick willie repealed
or when health insurance and phrma bought democraps in 2008 and your pussy democraps did the following:
1) assigned lobbyist liz fowler to write aca
2) pretended to care about a PO, briefly, before settling for the version the lobbyist wrote.
and y'all re-elected him. but not congress. the 2010 slaughter lasted a few cycles.
Whichever it is in each individual…