Historian Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American,
posted Feb. 9:
“Today the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government held its first meeting under chair Jim
Jordan (R-OH), who promised to look at “the politicization of the FBI and DOJ
and attacks on American civil liberties.” There are twelve Republicans and nine
Democrats on the committee.
Today’s hearing began with testimony from Senator Chuck
Grassley (R-IA) that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee
colluded with the Russians in 2016. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has
complained that the government impeded his investigation of Hunter Biden’s
laptop; former Democratic representative from Hawaii and now Fox News Channel
personality Tulsi Gabbard; and conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley also
testified. They rehashed old complaints, but no one produced any new evidence.
The top Democrat on the committee, Stacey Plaskett, from
the U.S. Virgin Islands, said: "I'm deeply concerned about the use of this
select subcommittee as a place to settle scores, showcase conspiracy theories,
and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining Americans' faith in our
democracy." Constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sporting a
purple bandana from his cancer treatments, pointed out the many times Trump
abused his power to reward friends and punish enemies and said, "If
weaponization of the Department of Justice has any meaning, this is it.”
Raskin also recalled that in August, Jordan said an investigation
would “help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is
going to run again. And we need to make sure that he wins.” Raskin said the
committee was "all about restoring Donald Trump, the twice-impeached
former president, to the office he lost by seven million votes in 2020 and
tried to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection against our
constitutional order on January 6, 2021."
Early in the proceedings, Aaron Rupar of Public Notice
mused: ”It is a bit odd to me that Fox News isn't carrying the ‘weaponization’
hearing live, since it is basically Fox porn.” After Raskin testified, he
wrote: “I’m beginning to understand why Fox News thought it might be a bad idea
to carry this live.” (1)
Of course, this is nothing less than a run-up to the next
presidential election; a repeat of the Benghazi and e-mail nonsense leading
into the 2016 cycle. Of course, there is no substance here, unless of course
one takes the position that publishing photos of Hunter Biden’s genitals on “Shitter”
is appropriate material for your children to see. The
only purpose of the previous proceedings was to drive up her negatives. McCarthy admitted as much after the 2016
election was safely in the bag. The only
purpose of the present proceedings are to smear Biden lest he once again flog
them like a rented mule.
Following Goebbels and vindicating Orwell’s predictions, the
scum have tortured the language to such an extent that it will now admit to
anything. The Fascist Caucus is now the “Freedom Caucus”,
free speech chokes in the smoke of burning books, and now the Committee on
the Weaponization of the Federal Government is itself a weaponization, just
as the failed coup d’état, the ‘stop the steal’ was nothing more than an
attempt to steal the last presidential outcome. Orwellian “Newspeak”, a form of doublespeak in
which coded terms meant to mislead and to justify the greatest crimes against
the republic. There is no Republic in
the Republican Party, only a naked Will to Power.
The nation isn’t fooled.
