Somebody Looks Nervous About Something

 

One tell that a person is keyed up over something is the gibberish that starts falling out of their faces. Take Jim Jordan and whether he talked with Trump on January 6th. He just couldn't remember when it might have been or what they had to talk about, but it turns out there was more than one call, Matt Gaetz was in on one of the calls, and the conversation had to do with whether Trump would please call off his angry hounds at the door. As if Jordan believed Trump had control of that particular situation. And that's pretty much what Kevin McCarthy went around with Trump about on the phone that day, too. 

But here's something interesting to me--while McCarthy has said he'd be fine testifying about that call before the January 6th committee, but he is indignant that his member, and himself, might have their phone records subpoenaed. Interesting. And he's not making any sense, nor is his spokesperson. 

Now, if Marjorie Taylor Green gets out in front of a camera and complains about her phone records being handed over and threatens the phone companies with being shut down, I guess I would tend to shrug a little bit at that because, um, she's certainly got a way about her. But when Republican House Leader McCarthy makes the same kind of nonsense threat, that's a little different. It's a congressional investigation into a riot/insurrection attempt that left over a hundred police officers injured in something like 1000 acts of assault and which caused damage not just to the building these member of congress work in, but to our democracy. 

It's not really any kind of over-reach for the committee to ask for those records, or for the phone companies to hand them over, even if only to rule out that GOP members of congress had any involvement. (Aside from promoting the Big Lie and making firebrand speeches in front of those people of course. Of course!)

But check out this gibberish from McCarthy's spokesperson regarding McCarthy's records: 

It is unfortunate how unserious and political Bennie Thompson has made this inquiry," Mark Bednar, a spokesman for McCarthy, said in a statement to CNN, referring to the select committee's chairman, when asked for comment on the minority leader being part of the preservation of records request. "A serious inquiry that was not politically motivated would be looking at why the Capitol was left so unprepared and how to prevent this from happening in the future -- and an authoritarian, unconstitutional attempt to rifle through individuals' call logs will not help answer that question."

Yes. A serious investigation into a crime would totally depend on looking into the cops and not the people doing crimes. This is....some kind of take, all right.

This sounds like people who want to cover something up, and you know, after Benghazi and "her emails", I'm so out of fucks with Republicans going, "Now now, we certainly wouldn't want this investigation to be POLITICAL."

Trump fans broke glass, spread feces on the walls, fought with law enforcements and tried to intimidate lawmakers for very political reasons. Crying about the politics of investigating that mess gets no sympathy from me at all. Yeah, it's political, and yeah, Republicans could turn out looking very bad--but its because of what they did and said, not because people bothered looking into it.

It looks bad because it is bad. And they look nervous and they should.