Hunter v. Jared

The House Oversight Committee is one of the most powerful in Congress. It’s the main investigative body in the House and one of only three committees where the Chair can issue subpoenas without a full vote of the committee or consultation with the Ranking Member.

Between 1997 to 2002, The Republican Chair, Dan Burton, issued 1,052 subpoenas mostly to investigate Bill Clinton at the cost of $35 million. From 2003 to 2005, the next Chairman, Republican Tom Davis, only issued three subpoenas to the George W. Bush administration.

After the GOP took the House in 2010, Chairman Darrell Issa issued over 100 subpoenas over four years investigating the Obama administration. His three Democratic predecessors issued less than that over eight years.

Republicans abuse the power of the Oversight Committee, especially as they issue subpoenas when they refused to comply with them from the Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack. But you know Republicans don’t take it seriously and only use it for partisan hackery by looking at who’s on it. So, who’s on it?

Its Chairman is James Comer who’s been howling since he got the job that President Biden is corrupt, and is still howling after his chief informant turned out to be a tool of the Russian disinformation campaign. Wah.

Then there’s Jim Gym Jordan who demands to know the truth unless it’s about rapes and insurrections. And then there are the true conspiracy theory-spreading MAGATs who make up the most vile members of Congress. We’re talking about Byron Donalds, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, Clay Higgins, Nancy Mace, Scott Perry, and Anna Paulina Luna.

Several of these are members of the Freedom Caucus. Why are there so many fucknut shitweasels on one of the most important committees in Congress? Because to get elected Speaker, before they stabbed him in the back, Kevin McCarthy made deals to put stupid MAGAt morons on the committee. He’s not around anymore, but they’re still here.

Hunter Biden testified before the committee last week in their effort to impeach his father. Now remember, the committee doesn’t have any information that his father is corrupt and their star informant turned out to be a peddler of Russian disinformation and has been charged for lying to the FBI over this.

Hunter called this Republican investigation a “partisan political pursuit.” He’s right, and they didn’t get what they wanted from asking him questions for over seven hours. One person who’s not a member of the committee but was allowed to weasel and slime his way in to ask stupid pointless questions was Matt Gaetz who wanted to know details of Hunter’s drug addiction. In one of his several rebuttals to Gaetz, Hunter said, “Was I an addict? Yes, I was an addict. What does that have to do with whether or not you’re going to go forward with an impeachment of my father other than to simply try to embarrass me?” Hunter also was able to point out that irony in Matt Gaetz asking anyone else about drug addiction, which flew right over his great big tall scary forehead.

Gaetz is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee which he claims is “payback” for his involvement in ousting McCarthy from the speakership, which is so much projection, you could project it onto his forehead.

Gaetz and others wanted to know about Hunter answering phone calls from his dad while he was with his business partners. Gaetz believes that if you answer a phone during a meeting, then the person on the phone is in the meeting.

Hunter said, “The pattern I see is that you literally have no evidence whatsoever of any corruption on the part of my father,” he said. “And therefore what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to make every single thing in business that I was ever involved in somehow corrupt.”

A lot of headlines, like from Fox News and The New York Post tried to make it look like Hunter verified that his father, Joe Biden, is “The Big Guy,” which was mentioned in an email, as in “ten percent” for The Big Guy. But Hunter stated that his father has never had any dealings with his businesses and didn’t even remember the email. This is plausible because I don’t remember every email of my life and I’ve never had a drug addiction.

When asked by a Democrat, “There’s no secret big guy anywhere in this email?,” Hunter replied, “No, there is not.”

During the hearing, Hunter said, “It’s not incumbent upon me to point to you to something that doesn’t exist. It’s incumbent upon you to create something, to come up with something based upon the voluminous evidence that you’ve collected, which shows no involvement.”

As for the infamous laptop that Republicans claimed proves so much criminality yet doesn’t, Hunter doesn’t even remember dropping it off at the Delaware computer repair shop where they owner gave it to Rudy Giuliani.

Hunter said that if his computer needed repairs, “I would have gone to the Apple store.”

Republicans went to the Bullshit Store.

Note: The blog is late because I was already running late with it when a couple of friends invited me out to dinner at a nice Salvadoran restaurant and I will put anything off for going out to dinner. It’s also why there’s not more to the blog.

Music note: I listened to Bruce Springsteen.

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