Three Blind Rats

This is really par for the course for a party/ cult whose idol is King Rat, the felonious Malignant Loser:

The House Ethics Committee said Monday that it is investigating a trio of GOP lawmakers over allegations ranging from accepting a “free or below-market-value trip” to Aruba to engaging in an improper relationship with a staffer.

One of the lawmakers, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), is a freshman who lost his GOP primary battle last week. The other two are Reps. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) and Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.).  [snip]

In Cawthorn’s case, all 10 Democrats and Republicans voted unanimously to establish an investigative subcommittee into the embattled North Carolina Republican’s actions. The subcommittee is tasked with determining whether Cawthorn “improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff,” the committee said.  [snip]

In Jackson’s case, the Texas Republican’s campaign committee “reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes,” the Office of Congressional Ethics said in recommending that the matter be further investigated.

The Federal Election Commission prohibits the use of campaign funds for memberships in country clubs and similar organizations. There is “substantial reason to believe” that Jackson used his congressional campaign funds to “pay for unlimited access to the Amarillo Club, a private dining club located in Amarillo, Texas,” the OCE said.  [snip]

The House Ethics Committee also published a report on Mooney, who this month won the primary race for the GOP nomination for West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District.

The report said the committee would continue to review several allegations against Mooney, including that he may have accepted a “free or below-market-value trip” to Aruba, used a campaign vendor’s Washington property as a free source of lodging, converted campaign funds to personal use and pressured congressional staffers to run personal errands for his family.

Who could possibly have foreseen that these members in good standing of the Corrupt Cult -- a "dark MAGA" nitwit, a pill- pushing drunk, and an anti-Semitic, pro-Russian crank -- would be blind to ethics issues?  Clean government is for losers!

Colbert Fingers Ringleader Of Republican Orgy Ring

 

Part of Stephen Colbert's monologue last night dealt with the revelation by far-right seditionist Rep. Madison Cawthorn (Orgy-NC) that he was invited to Republican drug and sex orgies.  Colbert has some thoughts about that and about who's the ringleader (allegedly!).

 

It's revealing what will get you a scolding from the head House Republican weasel, Rep. Kevin "Q-evin" McCarthy;  not racist, homophobic, or seditionist comments, but blabbing about drugs and sex among your rotted out peers (which Cawthorn now disclaims).

BONUS:

Worst coke orgy ever. pic.twitter.com/FPWAZnCgJM

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 30, 2022

 

 

QOTD -- Republican Values

 

“I look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I've always paid attention to politics.  Then all of the sudden you get invited to, ‘Well hey, we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come.’”

“I’m like, 'What did you just ask me to come to?'  And then you realize they are asking you to come to an orgy.”  -- Far- right Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn (Sedition-NC), on the "Warrior Poet Society" podcast, March 24.  Über weasel Rep. Kevin "Q-evin" McCarthy (QAnon-CA) is planning a sit down with young Cawthorn to remind him not to wash Republicans' dirty laundry in public or he won't get invited anymore.