Middle of the week and there’s a flurry of activity in the House as Kevin McLuntz (LOL thanks to J.J. Sefton over at Ace of Spades) works the list of promises he made to get and keep the gavel. Unlike the IRS defunding bill that doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance of surviving Daytona Beach at noon in the middle of July of being passed by the Senate, much less signed by the Resident, his promised next move is entirely within his control and will produce immediate results.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed late Monday that he will make good on his pre-midterm pledge to remove three high-profile Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar — from their House committees.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) told the Associated Press that he would move to strip the trio of their assignments, following through on a vow of payback for Democrats ousting Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from their panels during the last Congress.
Schiff and Swalwell, both from California, would be removed from the House Intelligence Committee while Minnesota’s Omar would be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
McCarthy vowed almost exactly a year ago that he would remove the three Democrats if Republicans won back the House in the 2022 midterm elections, and repeated that promise last November after his prediction was realized.
They call it “payback” and it’ll be spun as revenge, but the truth is that the Democrats — especially San Fran Nan — started this tactic in the last Congress. Omar was quick to denounce his plan to demote her. “I think it would be hypocritic [sic] for him to remove, you know, the first African born on subcommittee on Africa on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where I’ve had the opportunity to not only represent my constituents but the voice of so many people who have never had a voice on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”
It’s so sad all those people on the African continent have never had a voice on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
McCarthy offered his reasoning for revoking their committee assignments.
“Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector,” McCarthy told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo at the time. “Why would we ever give him a security clearance and the secrets to America? So, I will not allow him to be on Intel.”
Schiff, meanwhile, “lied to the American public time and again,” McCarthy said, while Omar has made “anti-Semitic comments.”
Not to mention that Swalwell slept with Chinese spy “Fang Fang” and threatened to nuke a fellow American, while Adam Schiff lied through is teeth about Trump and took part in sandbagging the former president through a sham impeachment process, twice. And Ilhan Omar is credibly accused of marrying her own brother in order to help him get a green card to stay in the U.S.
I’m totally in favor of stripping these three compromised anti-Americans from their posts.
See, when Democrats break precedent, it’s to protect our precious democracy (*ptooie*) from white supremacist domestic terrorists; when Republicans do it, they’re destroying our precious norms and institutions (*ptooie*). We can’t go on like this. Like Trump said, we have to punch back twice as hard and make life as miserable for the hard left as we can while we take back political territory that we’ve conceded. It is, as Andrew Breitbart said, “War!”