In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the U.S. House Representative from Ohio’s 4th District, Jim Jordan, a brain dead lunk who is now serving in his seventh term in office. Prior to that, he spent twelve years as a member of the Ohio state legislature. Jordan’s background prior to entering politics was as a national champion as an NCAA wrestler who eventually became the men’s wrestling coach at Ohio State University (which OSU has a fanatical following, frankly, in the state, more on this later). Jordan’s career in the Ohio state legislature was spent trying to strip welfare and the social safety net out from those in need of government assistance, and after winning the primary for his Congressional seat in 2006 to replace the retiring Mike Oxley, has been all but guaranteed re-election every year in Ohio’s 4th, a district that has voted Republican in all but 16 years since the Civil War ended. Jordan was one of the original founders of the House Freedom Caucus in 2015 that orchestrated the downfall of former House Speaker John Boehner, stemming from an disagreement that the two had over the debt ceiling limit way, way back in 2011. If you’re wondering, yes, Rep. Jordan was thus one of the main hindrances into getting an agreement on the debt ceiling passed, refusing to work with his own party to do so, and the inability of the GOP to produce one with control of the House is why Standard and Poore’s lowered the United States credit rating for the first time in our nation’s history.
We’re going to put this in perspective… John Boehner, of all people, refers to Jim Jordan as a terrorist.
And when it comes to committees… well, Jim Jordan first came onto our radar on the day the then-GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee badgered Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards after the release of the Center for Medical Progress’ fabricated “sting” video, interrupting her 19 times in a 5 minute span. He turned up to utterly embarrass himself while trying to harangue Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings, eventually being called to the carpet for his egregiously incorrect take on the investigation by the collective Beltway media, and after FBI Director James Comey decided there was no precedent or charges that could be pressed against Hillary Clinton for her e-mail server, Jordan turned on him and accused Comey of helping “cover up the cover-up” which sounds as paranoid and ludicrous as you’re thinking.
But perhaps that’s not as paranoid and ludicrous as the interview Jim Jordan gave to Tony Perkins, the leader of the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council on April 30th, 2013, where he started insisting there was merit to the government conspiracy that the Obama administration was trying to “buy up all the ammunition” as part of a plan to negate the 2nd Amendment and limit the freedom of gun owners.
Yeah, that really happened. But it’s little surprise that Jordan would say something like that around Tony Perkins, after all, in April of 2012 Jordan was telling Perkins the importance of registering Evangelical voters to get them to vote against President Obama was akin to the Union Army winning the war to stop slavery, or Americans in World War II going to Europe to beat the Nazis. Ah… Godwin’s Law. Never gets old.
And that’s not all… after the faux “IRS Scandal” that the GOP worked itself into a frenzy was investigated, and no wrongdoing was found, he continued to demand investigations at taxpayer expense, saying:
“We need this special counsel to help us get to the truth because the so-called investigation by the Justice Department has been a joke. The current investigation has no credibility because it is being headed by a maxed-out donor who is financially invested in the president’s success.”
I guess what we’re getting at is Jim Jordan is an extremist fiscal conservative, provided the money being spent isn’t being wasted on partisan witch hunts that only exist to throw red meat to lunatic conservatives.
Jordan aligns himself legislatively with the House Freedom Caucus on their most extreme positions, and has gone from whining about presidents using executive orders, to defending Donald Trump for using them. That might be because Rep. Jordan likes that it screws over people who would dare to sign up for medical insurance through the Affordable Care Act, which Jordan STILL insists isn’t constitutional (in spite of the Supreme Court twice ruling that it was).
At least Jim Jordan hasn’t been bailing on town halls in his district. Naw, that would be wrong, and deny him the satisfaction of telling his constituents to go f*** themselves for expecting the government to provide them with any sort of security on healthcare, or doing anything to stop industrial giants from polluting the environment. But, y’know, doing it while cowering behind a police officer while he blew off everyone who asked a question, because apparently his wrestling skills aren’t what they used to be.
A lot of interesting coincidences also popped up with Jim Jordan in 2018. The first off is that one of his former aides, Wesley Goodman, was an Ohio state legislator up until the time he was caught having sex with another man in his office, and then dozens of individuals came forward, some underage, to report being sexually harassed by Goodman. And then a report came out that Goodman had sexually assaulted an underage boy while working for Jordan in Washington at a Family Research Council retreat, and the whole thing got hushed up.
But what’s that you say? That’s just a former staffer of Jim Jordan’s. It’s not like that he would ever be caught up in such a scandal and cover up a sexual assault. To that, we say… OH RLY?
Over the summer of 2018, reports surfaced that while Jim Jordan was working as an assistant coach in the wrestling program at Ohio State University, a team physician, Richard Strauss, was sexually assaulting dozens of students over several years. And when asked about it, Jordan denied having any knowledge of any such sexual abuse taking place. You’ll never guess what happened next… multiple wrestlers came forward who said that they were aware of the abuse, brought it to the attention of Jim Jordan, and he just laughed it off as normal everyday locker room shenanigans. Further, as more wrestlers came forward, some reported being contacted by former Ohio State coaches on behalf of Jim Jordan asking them to make public statements to defend him from the controversy. And of course being involved in a coverup of sexual assault means that Jim Jordan received special attention and praise from Donald Trump. Because of course.
And so it is that Jim Jordan has become one of the most predominant gas-lighters in the modern Republican Party, turning every minute of the time he gets to speak in House Oversight Committee hearings into a farce, and when that’s not enough, to run onto cable news to further the misinformation being spread on behalf of Donald Trump. Here are but some of his worst moments in the past two years or so:
- March 4th, 2019: Rep. Jordan makes an arguably anti-Semitic Twitter post where he attacks Tom Steyer (who has Jewish heritage) by replacing the S in his name with a “$”, to complain about him donating money to Democrats.
- March 27th, 2019: Jim Jordan sends a letter to Donald Trump’s accountants, Mazars, and instructs them to ignore any subpoenas they might receive, including Congressional subpoenas.
- June 11th, 2019: Jim Jordan harasses former White House Counsel John Dean during his testimony about how impeachment should be handled, and for whatever reason, tries to insinuate that Dean is attacking Donald Trump because of how he has handled foreign policy with Israel (???).
- September 29th, 2019: Jordan goes on CNN to try and confuse the public regarding the Whistleblower Scandal, and Jake Tapper humiliates him, catching him in several lies and contradictions, and refusing to allow Jordan to try and deflect by spreading conspiracy theories about Joe Biden.
- October 14th, 2019: After 10 hours of damning testimony from State Department employee Dr. Fiona Hill during the impeachment inquiry, Rep. Jordan makes the ludicrous claim to the press that impeachment testimony doesn’t count unless it’s presented in front of all 435 members of Congress, and not just a committee. He also tried claiming that Congressman Matt Gaetz was unfairly kicked out of the meeting, but Gaetz wasn’t on any relevant committee to the discussion. (Jordan is, as per usual, full of s***.)
- October 23rd, 2019: Jordan is one of 41 Republicans who, while staring down the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached, stage a ridiculous publicity stunt in response by crashing a classified impeachment inquiry hearing for a “protest”.
- November 14th, 2019: Jim Jordan, in the midst of the Trump impeachment hearings, tries to spin that Trump is somehow the hero of the story, and that he was actually holding up aid to Ukraine and trying to solicit an illegal investigation as a “test”, to see if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was corrupt or not.
- December 3rd, 2019: Rep. Jordan votes against a resolution to disallow Russia from re-entering the G7 and makes it the G8 until it leaves Ukraine.
- December 18th, 2019: Jordan ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- February 13th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is mentioned in a court hearing back in Columbus, Ohio, where a witness recalls Jim Jordan, then an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University, pressuring a wrestler to dispute his own brother’s reports of sexual abuse by a team trainer. This is yet another mention of Jordan covering up sexual abuse in that scandal, and yet… he still remains a member of Congress.
- April 23rd, 2020: Jim Jordan refuses to wear a mask in a House Oversight Committee hearing, and claims that an oversight committee for the Coronavirus response is “a Democratic plot to attack Trump”.
- May 15th, 2020: Jordan votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- July 28th, 2020: Jim Jordan opens a hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr by, without permission, airing a video of out-of-context news footage (without the consent of the reporters giving those reports either), claiming that those protesting police violence are violent mobs.
- July 29th, 2020: Rep. Jordan is scolded by his Democratic colleagues for refusing to obey House rules and wear a mask during a meeting of the Technology Committee.
- July 31st, 2020: Jim Jordan is combative during a hearing on Covid-19, and while harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci, tries to target his questioning specifically to find out if he can shut down protests of police brutality and police murder around the country by using the pandemic as an excuse to deny protesters their right of assembly.
- August 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan, the lemming that he is, follows Donald Trump off a cliff to back Trump’s calls to boycott the Goodyear Tire Company, who have a factory in Akron, Ohio, because the company called on its employees to not wear political clothing to work, such as any MAGA gear.
- October 20th, 2020: Rep. Jordan claims that social media platforms removing bogus stories about Hunter Biden’s supposed laptop having incriminating material on it is “censorship” when it’s their discretion to allow whatever content they want on their platforms. Especially when it’s supposed Russian propaganda aimed at meddling in American elections.
- October 21st, 2020: Jim Jordan impotently calls for the House to do an investigation into Hunter Biden’s e-mails, based on a story which most intelligence experts say exists as a Russian disinformation campaign to interfere in the 2020 elections. But Jordan insists that we “need to find out what Joe Biden knew about this”, because he’s doing the Kremlin’s work for them.
- December 10th, 2020: Jordan signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
- January 6th, 2021: There’s quite a few known anecdotes about what Jim Jordan was doing when Trump supporters attempted the violent overthrow of our legislative branch of government on this date… first, he has ended up blurting out in interviews that he was repeatedly on the phone with Donald Trump while the attack was taking place (leading for calls for his phone records to be subpoenaed as part of the investigation into the attack)… and the second being that when the domestic terrorists invading the building were trying to get into the House chamber, Jordan suddenly came up with his own dumb plan to “sequester the women”, leading Wyoming Congresswoman Lynne Cheney to tell him “GET AWAY FROM ME. YOU F***ING DID THIS.”
- January 7th, 2021: Jim Jordan votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Jordan votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Jim Jordan votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Jordan votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Jordan votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Jim Jordan votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Jordan votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Jordan votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- March 31st, 2021: Rep. Jordan comes out in defense of accused child sex trafficker and fellow Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, because there’s apparently not any sex crime he’s aware of that he won’t try to sweep under the rug.
- April 15th, 2021: Jim Jordan decides to use his five minutes of time in a Covid-19 hearing to just be a useless, bullying prick, repeatedly asking questions of infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, then interrupting him before he can even complete a sentence. At the end of that five minutes, Jordan continued berating Fauci and grandstanding until Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters had to tell him, “Your time expired, sir. You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.”
- April 19th, 2021: Jordan sarcastically posts, “How many masks are we supposed to wear this week?” on Twitter, mocking advice of medical experts that two masks offer more protection than a single one.
- April 21st, 2021: Jim Jordan gets into a shouting match with Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, interrupting her while she had the Floor as she pointed out that Republicans’ efforts to insert an amendment into the Covid-19 Hate Crimes bill that would prevent “defunding the police” were irrelevant because the bill did not do anything in regards to police funding. (She’d know if a bill would do so, given her experience with 27 years on the force.)
- May 19th, 2021: Rep. Jordan votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Jordan is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- September 6th, 2021: Jim Jordan, on Twitter, says that “Vaccine mandates are un-American”, so users remind him that General George Washington mandated vaccinations for the Continental Army way back in 1777, and they’ve been a thing for literally centuries in this country.
- October 13th, 2021: Jordan, again on Twitter, calls for banning ALL vaccine mandates. Not just Covid-19 mandates, but all vaccines. He gets predictably ratio’ed.
Now, while Ohio’s 4th Congressional District has a +20 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, but Jordan already has a Democratic challenger raising huge sums of campaign funding to try to knock him off in the 2022 mid-terms, and given how much Jordan’s fate seems tied to the results of the January 6th Committee investigation, it’s still somehow plausible that he could be bounced out of office for being a seditious motherf***er. We’ll settle for a less fascist moderate from his own party if we have to.
We’re crossing our fingers, and hoping that after sixteen years if madness, his reign of douchebaggery comes to an end.
One Year Ago, October 21st, 2020: Jim Jordan (OH)… 2020 Update
Two Years Ago, October 21st, 2019: Jim Jordan (OH)… 2019 Update
Three Years Ago, October 21st, 2018: Jim Jordan (OH)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, October 21st, 2017: Jim Jordan (OH)… 2017 Update
Five Years Ago, October 21st, 2016: Jim Jordan (OH)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, October 21st, 2015: John Kline (MN)
Seven Years Ago, October 21st, 2014: Bob McDonnell (VA)