{"id":55460,"date":"2022-11-19T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55460"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:00:14","slug":"house-republicans-openly-promise-to-abuse-power-and-impose-one-party-totalitarian-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55460","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Openly Promise to Abuse Power and Impose One-Party, Totalitarian Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Trump Republican Party prepares to assume control of the House of Representatives with the barest of a majority, they are plotting unrealistically ambitious plans for  how they will govern. And almost none of their priorities align in any way with what the American people want, or even with what they campaigned on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=House Republicans Openly Promise to Abuse Power and Impose One-Party, Totalitarian Rule%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55460\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-titanic-gop.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Republican, GOP\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45545\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gone is any discussion of inflation, crime, immigration, or abortion. They have been replaced by a singular focus on phony probes of President Biden, his administration, and his family. Republicans have been fanning out on Fox News and other conservative media outlets promising to impeach the President, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, just for starters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55312\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes on Berserk Impeach Everybody Rant and Challenges Biden to a Debate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s set aside the fact that they have no chance of succeeding with any that. Nor do they have any intention of doing so. It&#8217;s a brazenly political parade of stunts aimed damaging Democrats while ignoring the welfare of the nation, and wasting untold millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also something much worse. It&#8217;s an embrace of totalitarianism that seeks to suppress their political foes. Republicans are determined to rule unimpeded by protocol, decency, or the Constitution. For example, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) was asked on Newsmax if GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy intends to strip Adam Schiff of his committee assignments if he becomes Speaker. He replied&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yeah, absolutely. Kevin McCarthy has said that. Along with him will be Eric Swalwell will also be removed from the Intelligence Committee.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Greg Steube says Kevin McCarthy intends to strip Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff of their committee assignments if he becomes Speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/98EeFLkPYN\">pic.twitter.com\/98EeFLkPYN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1593717136148631552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, McCarthy said that last year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/mccarthy-says-if-house-speaker-he-would-strip-some-democrats-n1287252\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to NBC News<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;McCarthy named Reps. Eric Swalwell of California; Ilhan Omar of Minnesota; and Adam Schiff of California as Democrats he&#8217;d remove from their committee assignments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind that there is no reason other than ideological disagreement for these punitive actions. This is the sort of fascistic behavior that the GOP has been trending toward for several years. What they didn&#8217;t mention was the fact that any such committee removals would require a vote of a majority of the House. The Republicans will have a small majority, but because of that, McCarthy wouldn&#8217;t have a vote to spare if he intends to carry out this oppressive threat. And if he manages to get away with it, the blowback will be brutal.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that, Republicans are up in arms about Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing an independent Special Counsel, Jack Smith, to investigate the crimes of Donald Trump. Garland justified the appointment as a measure to separate the Justice Department from the politics. Needless to say, Trump was mortified, as well as terrified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55451\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s Response to the Appointment of a Special Counsel is Predictably Outraged and Schizoid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump-fluffer Marjorie Taylor Greene weighed on in this with a threat of her own. On Steve Bannon&#8217;s webcast, she told him that she intends to defund the Special Counsel, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just wanna tell Jack Smith he\u2019s not going to get much of a paycheck. Because I&#8217;m gonna do everything I can to make sure there is zero American taxpayer dollars appropriated for Merrick Garland&#8217;s special counsel, which is nothing but the Democrat Party&#8217;s campaign against president Trump [&#8230;] We\u2019re not going to do this again. That\u2019s it. We\u2019re gonna stop them and we\u2019re gonna do it through the power of the purse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marge says she has a plan to stop the Special Counsel: \u201cThey can tell Jack Smith he\u2019s not going to get much of a paycheck. It\u2019s gonna be real simple. We\u2019re not going to do this. That\u2019s it. We\u2019re gonna stop them and we\u2019re gonna do it through the power of the purse.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UTj1nZxytE\">pic.twitter.com\/UTj1nZxytE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1593788290205089792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Once again, Greene (who said, in the best tradition of fascists, that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54959\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she would <em>&#8220;rule with an iron fist&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong>) and her Republican confederates don&#8217;t have the power to unilaterally defund anything. Even if they passed a bill in the House, it would never get through the Democrat-controlled Senate, or be signed by Biden. What&#8217;s more, why on Earth would she want to do that? Would she prefer that the investigation be done by the Justice Department attorneys who report to Garland? This is one of those things that Republicans typically fail to think through. Naturally, Greene got concurrence from both Bannon and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1593813574723538945\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Ingraham of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has been cutting deals with folks like Greene in order to secure their votes for Speaker, which he still doesn&#8217;t have. Consequently, he is on board with these crackpot schemes that they can&#8217;t actually do. And he has also revealed his own priority for the next session of Congress, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity\/status\/1593266791098220546\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">insisting that<\/a><\/strong> the <em>&#8220;GOP will repeal Biden\u2019s 87,000 new IRS agents on day one.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is no such initiative. It is just another Republican lie based on an appropriation of funds to recruit IRS employees to replace those who leave over the next five years. And most of them are not agents, but administrative staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54195\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Fear Mongers that Biden\u2019s IRS Agents Will \u2018Hunt Down and Kill Middle Class Taxpayers\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is what America has to look forward to after the GOP assumes control of the House. On the one hand, it will be a nightmare as Republicans carp endlessly about fake <em>&#8220;scandals&#8221;<\/em> and contrived conspiracy theories. On the other hand, it will only further alienate the American people from the GOP, because they are repulsed by their self-serving political antics.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is proudly anti-American. They have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/The GOP\u2019s Not-So-Secret Plot to Sabotage the Economy if They Gain Control of Congress\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pledged to sabotage the U.S. (and world) economy<\/a><\/strong> by refusing to increase the debt ceiling in order to force cuts in Social Security and Medicare. As a result, it is fairly safe to assume that the GOP majority in the House isn&#8217;t going to last longer than the next session of Congress. And the Republican&#8217;s march toward irrelevancy will advance the Democrat&#8217;s prospects for elections in 2024. And they&#8217;ll have Marjorie and Kevin to thank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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