Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
4th October 2023
Exit stage (far) right: Kevin McCarthy’s nightmare is now America’s ordeal (The Hill)
The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity (Vox)
Business Report: Consumer financial protection in peril (Hawaii News Now)
Challenge to consumer watchdog gets a frosty reception at the Supreme Court (NBC News)
How the Supreme Court could move to rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (The Hill)
McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday (Politico)
Payday Lenders Get Their Asses Handed To Them During Anti-CFPB Supreme Court Arguments (Huffington Post)
State Department slams GOP for failing to reauthorize global AIDS program (The Hill)
Leonard Leo says he will not cooperate with D.C. Attorney General tax probe (Politico)
Networks Throw Tantrums Over ‘Hard-Right’ GOP Ousting Kevin McCarthy (NewsBusters)
The Only Sin That Republicans Can’t Forgive (The Atlantic) Scott Adams characterizes The Atlantic as the least reliable publication he knows about.
FBI Says MAGA Sheriff Sold Deputy Badge to Iraqi Fixer (Daily Beast) MAGA is the New Nigger.
The House GOP Is a Failed State (Politico)
The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024 (Politico)
House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster (N.Y. Times) They say that like it was a bad thing.
Giuliani’s Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors’ Attention (N.Y. Times) Not to mention that of the witch-hunt media.
Playbook: The House GOP’s fight may have just begun (Politico)
Senate Republicans watch McCarthy ouster with alarm, disbelief (The Hill) Republicans aren’t taking our shit any more! How did that happen?
UPDATE: A case study in unethical journalism (Popular Information) Odd as it may seem, they’re not talking about themselves.
Swiss Writer Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Calling Journalist A “Fat Lesbian”
‘He’s about clicks’: Florida Republicans furious at Gaetz (Politico)
Kevin McCarthy is GOP incompetence made flesh (Public Notice) Another prog mushroom of hate
The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”
Libs of TikTok Says Account Was CANCELED by Yet Another Platform
Rep. Hoyer Loses Capitol Hideaway Office
Kevin McCarthy’s embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself (Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Pelosi Booted From Plush Office After McCarthy Accuses Her of Betrayal
McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party’s destructive tendencies (Washington Poop)
Gaetz knocks Speaker pro tem for sending lawmakers home to ‘cry for a week’ (The Hill)
Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash (N.Y. Times)
RNC Threatens To Ban Ramaswamy, Christie From Next GOP Debate For ‘Unsanctioned Dialogue’
Republicans are sick of Matt Gaetz, and they’re not quiet about it (Washington Poop) I don’t look to the WaPoo for accurate information about Republicans.
There Are Tapes: GOP Rep. Has Recording of Kevin McCarthy ‘Belittling’ Him (Daily Beast)
Moderate Republican says he’d vote to remove 8 colleagues from GOP conference who supported McCarthy ouster (The Hill) No wonder the Deep State keeps winning.