Ethics Committee to be Renamed Creepy Republican Committee
Oh Lord in heaven above, they’ve had to take another Republican off the House Ethics Committee because he’s a creep.
A Republican congressman was removed from the House Ethics Committee on Saturday after it was reported that he used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle a misconduct complaint by a former staffer.
Bye, bye, Patrick Meehan, Republican from Pennsylvania.
A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.
He made life miserable for her when she did not reciprocate. A settlement was made using taxpayer money.
Finding an ethical Republican in congress is like trying to find a virgin in a bawdy house.
Thanks to Barb in DeeCee for the heads up.
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself: “Finding an ethical Republican in congress is like trying to find a virgin in a bawdy house.”
Vegas would give Republicans 200-1, the virgins +180 and bet on the virgins to cover the point spread. It would require dispensation from Mama to explain the numbers, but I stand by them.
1I had forgotten this until just now. Long ago ca. 1963-4, I had a friend, a GOP congressman, a handsome widower, age about 60. He’d come to Colorado to ski with me. When I would be in D.C on biz we’d get together to ice skate, go out to dinner or he’d cook at his townhouse on Capital Hill. Of course we’d talk and talk. Being a gentleman I had no need to be on guard. If there wasn’t a 30 year age difference, I may have been tempted. Any guys like that left?
2Sad to say it, but I think we’ve had a congress of wh**** for a long time. Too bad they still get paid when gov shuts down.
3Maybe it’s my suspicious nature but aren’t there background done on any of the cockwomble who run on the gop ticket? Too many run on “Christian Family Values”. A sure bet that they are unchristian hypocrites who sin, sin, sin, cause Jesus just has nothing to do except forgive their sorry asses. But also jail them for misappropriated taxpayer funds.
4Tilphousia is that a rhetorical question or a really good Sunday funny? Guy in NY running after serving time for tax fraud and him caught on tape threatening to throw a reporter “off the balcony and break him like a boy.” Montana? (or thereabouts) man wins after assaulting a reporter. Roy Moore twice removed from bench runs for Senate from AL (minor miracle, he actually lost.) Then there’s Donnie, now Dotard45. Despite what was known about him, too much to list in compassion toward Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself’s bandwidth capacity. And, her patience, too. That’s the short list.
Background checks? The snacilbupeR are not likely to care whatever the results. Lyin’ Ryan is still imposing the grand old pervert rule, aptly named the Hastert Rule, on the House. Their irony meters went out the same chute as their ethics.
5At least they took him off the Ethics Committee when they found out about the ethics violation. Trump policy would be to put him _on_ the Ethics Committee _because_ they found out about the ethics violation. He’s always putting people in charge of things they want to destroy.
6Creep-y? Well, doesn’t that just remind me of the greatest creep thing of all, the Republican Committee to Re-Elect the President. Remember that one? Frankly, I think its ghost still lingers.
7I yearn for the good ol’ days when congresscritters worked their wiles on the likes of Fanne Foxe.
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