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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Rep. Rob Menendez says he's "had it" with the partisanship of Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.

A Democratic lawmaker slammed his Republican colleagues over their fealty to Donald Trump on Tuesday night during a marathon 15-hour session on impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border security issues.

Rep. Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) said the House Homeland Security Committee has held 17 hearings on the border, but zero full committee hearings on other issues within its jurisdiction such as emergency preparedness, cyber threats, infrastructure protection and more.

“We have not lived up to our oversight obligation here on this committee because you all are obsessed with the border,” he said. “Because you bend the knee to the ‘Orange Jesus’ as you refer to him across the aisle.”

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 99 points 10 months ago
[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago

Can’t shame people who are totally shameless.

[-] Mamertine@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

They want to get reelected. They know they have to do what the Almighty Orange One says for that to happen. I'm really hoping the Democrats actually take off the gloves for this election and call the Republicans the insurrection party. Then they have to show America that one party is fully responsible and that one party has been blocking the investigation into the insurrection.

Show the Jan 6 footage. Get an emotional response. Make the Republican voters feel like shit for allowing that to happen.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’m really hoping the Democrats actually take off the gloves for this election

Sorry, I've been waiting for that for at least three decades. They are terrified that anything further left than milquetoast corporate-friendly liberalism will somehow make things worse. Yes, I'm voting for Biden, blah blah blah, but it sure would be nice to see Dems shake things up for a change.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago

I honestly think we're a walking corpse of a country. They absolutely do not in the slightest care one iota about what "we" think. We could show them, in person, Donald Trump kicking a 4 year old and they'd argue that "they were a liberal so it's fine, he actually loves children."

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Trying to manipulate them with guilt isn't going to work. Why would they feel guilty about something they supported? Or if they didn't, why would they feel guilty about something they didn't have anything to do with?

Would the failed attempts to kill Hitler have made you support him out of guilt?

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I know several republican voters who watched the Jan 6 footage with pride. I really don't think anything would get someone who's still a republican at this point to switch over.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Surely quoting Liz Cheney at then will shame them into decency, she's so well loved and influential in Republican circles /s

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

they were probably rubbing one out during his speech.

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