McCarthy’s formerly rubbery spine was replaced with a steel one as part of the agreement he struck with Rep. Matt Gaetz and the other GOP holdouts. And now he has the guts and spine necessary to rip into Democrats and accuse Biden of doing things that RINOs like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney would never dare bring up.
Such was obvious yesterday when McCarthy, when speaking to reporters about Biden, the Department of Justice, and the new “Weaponization of Government” Select Subcommittee, said “I see it could go from that [weaponinzation of government] committee or others, but I think Congress has to investigate this.”
Continuing, he exposed how Biden’s DOJ had treated Trump very unfairly, saying “From one standpoint they knew the documents were there — they actually asked President Trump to put another lock on it, so they were locked.” He then added that Biden “utilized the Justice Department to raid President Trump. I think Congress has a role.”
And it looks like those other steel-spined Republicans in the House GOP are ready to join McCarthy in fighting the Biden regime by investigating it (or, more likely, push him towards taking a tougher stance with Biden).
Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, for instance, have blown up on Biden for his administration’s stonewalling and attempts to cover up the document scandal.
Rep. Comer, for instance, said during a Fox News Channel appearance:
“Well, we wonder if the Secret Service had records now, that’s our next question. Because he still had Secret Service protection. And you would assume that the Secret Service would vet people that would be allowed on the premise of the dwelling for the President of the United States.
“So, there are other areas we’re going to look. I’m sure all of the records have either been destroyed or never existed to begin with. But at any rate, this is very concerning. The security cameras, remember the FBI, when they raided Mar-a-Lago, they also took the security cameras to look at security footage. Did they do the same with Joe Biden? We do know he has surveillance cameras there.”
Similarly, Rep. Jim Jordan blew up on White House Counsel Ron Klain in a letter, saying:
To date, you have not complied with our long-outstanding requests for information and documents. Instead, the Biden White House provided a perfunctory letter that discounted Congress’s constitutional oversight authorities, failed to produce any documents or information requested, and declined to address any matters of substance. The White House leaked this letter to the media, and briefed at least one reporter on it, before transmitting the letter to the Committee at 4:34 a.m. — severely undercutting the White House’s purported commitment to working with us in “good faith.”
The White House has sought to excuse its noncompliance with our requests by assertingthat the requests “were not made as part of the congressional oversight process to which the constitutional accommodation obligations apply.” Setting aside the constitutional and legal fallacies inherent in the White House’s argument, nothing in federal law prevented the White House from voluntarily complying with our requests. In addition, to the extent the White House believed it was bound only to comply with requests from committee chairmen, the White House has had notice since at least November 16, 2022, that a returning Republican Member would lead the Judiciary Committee in the 118th Congress and has taken no steps to comply with our outstanding requests in that time. In fact, as of today, we have seen no evidence that the White House has taken any steps to comply with our requests.
The Administration’s stonewalling must stop. Accordingly, we reiterate our outstanding requests — itemized in our letter dated November 18, 2022, and its enclosure, and incorporated herein — and ask that you provide this material immediately. We are prepared to resort to compulsory process, if necessary, to obtain this material.
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