Before republican congressman Darrell Issa could be removed as the chair of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform for incompetence and other possibly less legal shenanigans he threatened:
“I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks,” republican chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Darrell Issa announced.
Isaa kept to that agenda as did the republicans that followed that partisan directive
In this short segment, Alex Wagner sitting in for Chris Hayes discusses this GOP non-governing-special-committee-investigation-only-agenda with Emily's List spokesperson Jess McIntosh about this reality after some previous statements from congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and congressman Elijah Cummings (D - MD).
When Alex Wagner asks Jess McIntosh for her thoughts on what the republicans are up to, Alex's questions pinpoint the malfeasance with Jess nailing it home:
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Here is a partial transcript:
Jess McIntosh on the latest republican Planned Parenthood assault in the works:
"Kevin MCarthy (R) only said what we all knew; that the Benghazi committee was a sham committee, politically motivated. It was set up to tear down Hillary Clinton and that was the only reason...
"The idea that you would waste time and taxpayer dollars to attack one woman's poll numbers is pretty despicable...
"The idea that you would waste time and taxpayer dollars to attack millions of women's access to Health Care is something else entirely. Hillary Clinton is a really tough woman and she has an amazing record to stand on and she's running a campaign that I think is going to be just fine as she makes her case for why she ought to be president, especially while the republicans can't seem to get it together to say anything sensical, whether in the House or in the republican field...
"But the women who rely on Planned Parenthood need those services, and they need them more than republicans need to score cheap political points. I just.. I find it really disturbing that these are people who ask for your vote and then when they get to elected office, turn around and do that with it."
Alex Wagner:
"Well I think what we're seeing is the governing agenda for the republican congress which is; don't actually legislate, but establish select committees that are really [just] partisan efforts. I mean this..instead of actually doing the hard work of governance, it's basically all about committees."
Jess:
"they don't actually believe in governing. This is why they're going through an existential crisis in the republican party right now. You get things like Bobby Jindal (R) blaming the Oregon shooting on abortion and single moms, and Ben Carson (R) saying we all ought to rush at attackers [mass shooters] instead of dealing with gun laws...
"Republicans don't actually believe that government can solve any problems. They don't actually think that government works. So they campaign on nonsense, but then when they get elected they don't know what to do with the levers of power. They don't believe that they're there to help the people that elected them or make life any better for the American families.
"So they just keep campaigning. They just keep politicking. And at some point you have to be a grown-up or people are going to stop voting for you. Their own party is turning on themselves, both in the republican presidential field and in the halls of congress...
'We are seeing huge fractures within the republican party and it's because they don't know how to get anything done and it's becoming really obvious to everyone."
Alex:
"Jess, how big of an issue do you think reproductive rights are going to be in the 2016 campaign?.. because we know we narrowly avoided a government shut-down at the beginning of this month over Planned Parenthood. The fight is not yet over; the funding expires for the government in December, I mean this is certainly an issue for this year, does it bleed into 2016 and are people going to vote on that?"
Jess:
"Of course it does, and it will. Look, if you had asked me in 2008 how big of a deal reproductive rights were going to be in the 2016 presidential election, I would have said very small, but then the tea party happened and they took over. And after they won in the wave of 2010 [RedMap] all of these guys came in and we started hearing about "forcible rape", And we started hearing about defunding Planned Parenthood. We started hearing presidential candidates who do not favor abortion exemptions for things like the life of the woman involved. I mean, these guys are so extreme they have woken up a generation of women who thought that their mothers had put these rights to bed. Who thought these debates were long settled. Clearly they're not, and obviously women all over the country are incredibly fired up abut this...
"I think you're going to see a huge turn out among women in 2016, especially young single women."
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The republican goal is to take control. It doesn't matter to the real power brokers in this country and globally that the current collection of republicans are immature religious zealots and bungling idiots. Or that they are loud stupid and dangerous in some cases. Noise is a good distraction. They are following the dictates of a corporate blueprint to dominate democracy for the sole benefit of only those wealthy enough to qualify. Nothing else. None of the claims they make are true. They are just words strung together from corporate think tanks. Not "reducing spending". Not "balancing any budget". Not the middle class worker. Not Jobs. Nothing but to control the levers of power for their only constituents.
Not for the teabags who voted them into office nor the teabag offshoots calling themselves the Liberty or Freedom voters. Not the religious fundamentalists. No one. Yes even the religious fanatics like Huckabee and their war on women assaults are just wedge issues designed as a firewall to keep people at war with each other and focus away from the corporate giants, high finance, FIRE etc,
The only constituency that will have a voice that matters to the republican politician is the corporate 1%er elite. The "supply side" Wall Street donor class and all the top moneyed corporate special interests that pay for the "conservative" think tanks (propaganda producers) and one stop legislation Mills like ALEC. It was all spelled out in the Powell memorandum long ago.
Hence, "special" committees - snipe hunts and hostage taking - nothing else - Look at Issa's face or Dowdy's or Chaffetz or McCarthy's.
Most boys figure out what a snipe is and where it hides on their first time out hunting them
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So I'm hoping that Jess McIntoch views on the women being incredibly fired up for 2016 is what is happening. I think she's on to something.
We have a lot that needs doing
The "conservative" movement may have all our money, but their greed is also their weakness. They always take too much, over-reach and go over board - eventually - that is
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It's gotten late - time to turn in - thanks for stopping by