{"id":52791,"date":"2023-01-12T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/alternate-reality-republicans-change-the-rules-as-democrats-cry-foul-52791"},"modified":"2023-01-12T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:00:51","slug":"alternate-reality-republicans-change-the-rules-as-democrats-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/alternate-reality-republicans-change-the-rules-as-democrats-cry-foul-52791","title":{"rendered":"Alternate reality: Republicans change the rules as Democrats cry foul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington is a hall of mirrors, these days.<\/p>\n

What Republicans see as accountability in government<\/a> is viewed by Democrats as harassing federal officials for doing their job.<\/p>\n

What Republicans see as protecting the little guy from wild-eyed tax auditors is seen by Democrats as allowing fat cats to get away with tax fraud.<\/p>\n

While many Republicans want<\/a> newly elected serial fabricator George Santos to resign, he said yesterday he is not and the House leadership is not pressing the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And what Republicans view as hypocritical misconduct by Joe Biden<\/a> on classified documents, Democrats see as model behavior that contrasts with blatant lawbreaking by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

No wonder nobody knows which way is up. In Kevin McCarthy\u2019s Washington<\/a>, each side is staring at a polar-opposite reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the media long ago lost their ability to play the role of honest referee.<\/p>\n

In each instance, this is not the usual partisan wrangling to gain the upper hand. These are deep-seated beliefs about the essence of what government should do or refrain from doing.<\/p>\n

As part of the negotiations that made him speaker, McCarthy agreed to create a Judiciary subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. Democrats dismiss this<\/a> as investigating the investigators \u2013 going back over legitimate probes to discredit the job done by the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

Jim Jordan<\/a>, who will run Judiciary, said he was not trying to undermine past Trump investigations but to protect the First Amendment and keep conservatives from being unfairly targeted. “We don\u2019t want to go after anyone. We just want it to stop,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the subcommittee, denounced by Democrats, could become the main vehicle for investigations of the Biden administration. And its insistence on having access to classified information, even involving ongoing Justice Department probes, is likely to create a showdown over how far such a panel can go without jeopardizing legitimate investigations. <\/p>\n

WHY MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, WHO HELPED MCCARTHY BECOME SPEAKER, TRIED INSIDE GAME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The IRS is another battleground<\/a> where no one can agree on the terms of engagement. A series of fact-checkers, including in the Washington Post, say it\u2019s bogus for Republicans to say they\u2019re going to get rid of 87,000 IRS agents who will make life miserable for working families and small businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of those hired under past Biden legislation will not be agents, the overall size of the agency will continue to shrink and no one earning less than $400,000 a year will be audited, the truth-squadders say. In fact, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says if the GOP has its way, the budget deficit will rise by $115 billion because the wealthy will get away with tax chicanery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nonsense, say the Republicans, who are trading on the agency\u2019s unpopularity \u2013 who wants to be audited? \u2013 by insisting they will protect hard-working wage slaves from overzealous auditors. (Reality check: This is all Kabuki theater, because whatever bills the House passes, they will be blocked by the Democratic Senate or by President Biden\u2019s veto.)<\/p>\n

George Santos<\/a>, who has fictionalized everything from his college (he never attended) and Wall Street background (non-existent) to his religion (which isn\u2019t Jewish), told a scrum of reporters yesterday he will not quit. “I was elected to serve the people of #NY03 not the party & politicians,” Santos tweeted.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party of Long Island\u2019s Nassau County<\/a> is demanding his resignation, and Santos faces multiple investigations, but at the moment no one can force him out. Several Democrats told McCarthy in a letter that Santos poses a “direct threat to national security,” but the speaker told reporters that the voters made the decision to elect him and as of now he would give him committee assignments.<\/p>\n

PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS BEEN ‘IGNORING’ THE BORDER CRISIS EVEN AS IT WORSENS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Does McCarthy trust Santos?<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s going to have to build the trust here,” the speaker said.<\/p>\n

But no spin cycle is more dizzying than the one involving classified documents.<\/p>\n

The media have rushed to point out that what Joe Biden did is exactly what Trump should have done. Once Biden\u2019s people discovered that 10 classified documents had made their way to the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Biden center, they notified the National Archives, voluntarily turned over the stuff and are cooperating.<\/p>\n

And what a contrast, say Biden\u2019s liberal allies, with a former president whose far greater number of classified papers had to be subpoenaed, and even after the Trump team<\/a> said he\u2019d returned everything, that FBI raid found another 100 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n

Well, fine. But what Biden did totally muddies the waters. And after listening to endless self-righteous speeches about the dangers of keeping top-secret material, you can\u2019t blame Trump and his supporters for exulting in the fact that Biden, upon leaving office as VP, didn\u2019t follow the rules.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s more, the Biden Penn Center got a major surge in donations from China after the former vice president set it up \u2013 while Hunter Biden was engaging in global buckraking. And the timing \u2013 the papers were discovered six days before the midterms, but not disclosed until now \u2013 feels like an effort to hide something.<\/p>\n

And late yesterday, NBC reported that Biden aides discovered at least one more batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Penn Washington office\u2026drip drip drip.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just hard to grasp how Merrick Garland can now prosecute Trump<\/a> on anything related to the documents if his own boss gets a pass. It just doesn\u2019t smell right. Even with Trump throwing out unsubstantiated allegations about the “Biden crime family,” even with the AG handing the matter to a Trump-appointed prosecutor, it will smell like a double standard.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why, when you strip away the factual finger-pointing, Biden just gave Trump an enormous political gift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/media-buzz\/alternate-reality-republicans-change-rules-democrats-cry-foul <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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