Pic Of The Moment: Finally In Complete Control Of The Federal Government, The GOP's First Move Is...

[EarlG]

With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office

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[jodymarie aimee]

1. TV is saying Ryan is a hero for standing up to his House

Don't believe it for one second. This is straight out of Walker's playbook. All our WI guys are pure greed and evil.

[Jacob Boehme]

2. I'll take "History's Largest Lying Liars" for $500 Alex...

This Wisconsin First District congressman and speaker of the House continuously ignores his constitutional responsibilities in order to advance the extreme right-wing agenda.

[2naSalit]

12. Exactly!! nt

[Roland99]

3. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

[lark]

4. Total cowards!

Did they think they could just sneak this by the American public? It seems that way, passing this at midnight without telling anyone it was added to a bill? Then Ryan lies and defends this as "nothing to see here", then the restore the previous provisions. Repugs are cur dogs who love to attack and hurt the lower and working class, but who totally crumble and reverse themselves when caught in their treachery. This was just an initial shot at us, the real dangers will arrive very soon with repeal (slow destruction) of ACA, and gutting of Medicare and Social Security. Then after they've killed us, they will start handing out the goodies to the donor class, repeal of all environmental regulations and rules. So when people get pneumonia due to toxic air quality, they won't be able to afford to go to the hospital and will die at home or in the ER waiting room. I also expect they will invalidate the rules governing hospitals to make it so they aren't required to even triage the people without insurance. There is nothing so heinous that they won't do it, if they think they can get away with it by lying about it enough that it fools most of the sheeple.

Grim times are here folks, pay attention, make a huge fuss, protest, write letters, do everything possible to stop the 4th Reich from happening.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. The media won't hold them accountable

so they figure "why not?"

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Now they are going to publicly throw each other under the bus

after pulling it and come back later and gut it anyway.

[DonCoquixote]

6. even Donald Trump himself

starts tweeting about how this looks bad, then you know that this was an arrogant and stupid decision. Course it also illustrates the horror of the next four years, the fact that will be stuck in between Donald Trump and Paul Ryan who will be fighting each other over who gets to do the next destructive thing,, that coincidentally makes billionaires richer.

The only silver lining to this is that the GOP will be able to remind everyone once again why they are unpopular. Even the folks in the hinterlands will feel the sting of this.

[ffr]

8. When the dumbest of dumb recognize that a move to gut ethics panels is a bad idea

You have to wonder how much dumber and corrupt the underlings in the GOP are.

Scary stuff!

[ffr]

7. Wanted to repeat what I said about their sudden full aboutface on this matter

Ryan Defends House GOP Vote To Weaken Ethics Watchdog
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141654060

...GOP to return to it again after the public is distracted by some other Red herring.

My question is with all of Ryan's talk about still, still, still, be ethical, be independent and on and on and on, WHY GUT IT IF IT'S STILL THE SAME AS IT WAS???

66 million of us are still here Ryan and we're not hoodwinked fools like the 63 million minority that voter your GOP asses into power, so FU!! Leave our government's safeguards intact!

We're watching you, you fcuking criminal!

[DFW]

10. And their SECOND move.....

Their second move was to say, "WTF?? Y'all caught on to what we were up to THAT fast? Well, shit, then forget it, we'll try something else."

So they extracted the bullet from their collective foot, and will try something equally as odious, but more subtle, probably starting with this evening. Maybe renaming the EPA the "Environmental Polluting Authority."

[Angry Dragon]

11. I would expect no less from the slime ............ planning ahead

[stonecutter357]

13. K&R!

[Towlie]

14. " Is there any American out there who thinks Congress is too ethical?" - Rep. Seth Moulton

[Bill USA]

15. Ethics Committee? Ethics committee, Weeeeeee don' NEED a stinking Ethics committee!