{"id":54087,"date":"2023-01-30T03:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54087"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:27:39","slug":"gop-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54087","title":{"rendered":"GOP changes formula for fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23HouseGOP%20%23KevinMcCarthy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What am I missing as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doles out committee assignments for the 118th Congress?<\/p>\n<p>Republican House members lost committee seats in the previous Congress for a number of legitimate reasons. Marjorie Taylor Greene likened COVID-19 mask mandates to the Holocaust; Paul Gosar thought it was funny to depict the murder of a Democratic colleague. Now the new speaker has decided to return them to key committee assignments. Oh, and then he seats a pathological liar, George Santos, on two key committees while he is under investigation by the House ethics panel for possible violations of House rules.<\/p>\n<p>Then the speaker boots Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee for &#8212; get this! &#8212; impeaching Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>How can one set of hideous transgressions be reversed while dropping the hammer on Democrats simply for doing their constitutional duty?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23HouseGOP%20%23KevinMcCarthy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I missing as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doles out committee assignments for the 118th Congress? Republican House members lost committee seats in the previous Congress for a number of legitimate reasons. Marjorie Taylor Greene likened COVID-19 mask mandates to the Holocaust; Paul Gosar thought it was funny to depict the murder of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP changes formula for fitness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2179,2670],"class_list":["post-54087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-house-gop","tag-kevin-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54088,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions\/54088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}