"...It was, to coin a phrase, an “absurd” spectacle to watch this law-and-order conservative being attacked by MAGA lawmakers set on undermining the rule of law. Various House Republicans had already issued demands to “defund the FBI” (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia even sold T-shirts with the slogan), and on the day before the Wray hearing, Jordan, the Judiciary chairman, sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (Tex.) requesting that she “eliminate any funding for the FBI that is not absolutely essential.” (For good measure, Jordan also asked her to block some funds for the ATF.)
"Were
Republicans to succeed, Wray told the Judiciary Committee, they would
leave Americans more vulnerable to fentanyl cartels, violent criminals,
gangs, sex predators, foreign and domestic terrorists, cyberattacks and
Chinese spies. This is where a government of lies will take us..." -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post, writing about the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing inquisition of FBI Director Chris Wray by the likes of "Gym" Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Troy Nehls ("Republicans Celebrate Their Successful Deception of Voters"). Milbank focuses not only on the FBI hearing, but also on hearings focused on the coronavirus pandemic conspiracies and the "whistleblower" who turned out to be a Chinese agent on the lam. The common element was the miasma of lies, conspiracy theories, paranoia, and bad faith brought forth by the Christofascist Republicans at every turn. To top it, these arsonist rats revel in the fact that they're undercutting the rule of law and faith in American democracy in their desperation to hold onto power. The philosophy seems to be, if we can't have it, we'll burn it down.
We can't have a country with a party/ cult whose interest lies in destroying it.
