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My former colleague doesnt seem to grasp what his job in Congress is.
By Joe Walsh February 2 at 6:00 AM
Joe Walsh is a syndicated talk-radio host and a former Illinois congressman.
I served in Congress with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Based on my experience working with him, nothing about the way hes behaving now as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence overseeing part of the so-called Russia-Trump investigation is particularly shocking.
The Nunes I knew was a purely partisan animal. When it comes to exercising good judgment and discharging his duties in service of the Constitution, hes just not up to the task.
He saw everything through a Republican vs. Democrat lens. In weekly conference meetings for Republican House members, Nunes was always one of then-Speaker John A. Boehners or Majority Leader Eric Cantors go-to lieutenants, willing to tout the party line and make sure the rest of us lined up like obedient boys and girls. During my brief tenure, I was one of the more outspoken tea party members, regularly at odds with leadership when it came to budget or government-funding legislation. I still vividly recall Nunes lambasting us as obstinate obstructionists on many occasions, trying to bend us to leaderships will on votes that went against our principles. With Nunes, I found it was all about politics, almost never about policy.
At one meeting, we were fighting over passing some budget resolution, and leadership had Nunes go to the mic, where he said something like: You tea party extremists are the problem. Youre making the Republican Party look dysfunctional. If you keep this up, Romney is going to lose in 2012. Well, Mitt Romney lost. The GOP looks dysfunctional now. And either way, I didnt go to D.C. to get Romney, or anyone else, elected. I went to stop D.C. from bankrupting the country.
So it doesnt surprise me to see Nunes today, acting more like the chairman of the presidents reelection campaign than chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He wants to please whomever he sees as the person or people running the show. Back then, it was House GOP leadership. Now its President Trump. And its pretty clear Nunes has decided his job is to protect Trump no matter what collateral damage results. How else do you explain his careless and dangerous rush to release his already infamous memo?
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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is a partisan hack if there ever was one.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)Trumpdumper
(171 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Now Joe Walsh, he recorded "Rocky Mountain Way"
LOL
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Not that there's a lot of difference, mind you.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Nunes and Trump and their people do.
it's nice to see some Republicans turning on Trump. As I've said on here before, it's amazing how many Republicans seems to grow a brain and/or a heart once they leave the immediate DC environment.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)I'm glad he's not taking them anymore.
I see retweets of him on Twitter and he's definitely not happy getting no crumbs from twitler.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...that it's OK to "dip his beak," and may be helping himself to the Russian "black money" largesse. I think Nunes* also realized that Team Mueller probably has his shifty ass on tape saying things he should not be saying to people he should not be saying such things to. Bottom line: Nunes* is all in the Russia crap up to his shit-brown eyes. Further: Nunes* is a traitor.
SWBTATTReg
(22,129 posts)total obscurity and impotence solely because of his incompetence and ability to led anyone, let alone this country. History has a way of coming back double and triple against those such as this.
The so-called 'memo' will be mocked and will stand out as clear evidence of the partisan nature and bent of the GOP, party over country. As the GOP will discover, money will NOT count. You literally can't not buy votes. The best way is to clearly demonstrate the benefits proposals vs. your opponent's proposal...plain and simple, and how it should be, instead of finger pointing, hatred mongering, etc.