House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries has resubmitted Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff to be placed on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), despite notice from House Speaker Keven McCarthy that Swalwell and Schiff would not be permitted.
Due to the sensitivity of the House intel committee, there are special rules permitting the Speaker to assign or reject nominations without a House vote, so this effort by Jeffries is political posturing.
WASHINGTON DC – The head of House Democrats has submitted Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) to sit on the powerful Intelligence Committee, setting up a battle with Republican leaders who are vowing to keep them off the panel.
Separately, Democrats this week are also expected to seat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to a source familiar with the Democrats’ plans, which will likely prompt GOP leaders to hold a floor vote to remove her.
In a letter sent Saturday to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, and Swalwell are both “eminently qualified” to continue their service on the committee. Jeffries requested that McCarthy seat them there.
“Together, these Members have over two decades of distinguished leadership providing oversight of our nation’s Intelligence Community, in addition to their prosecutorial work in law enforcement prior to serving in Congress,” Jeffries wrote.
Unlike most committees, however, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has special rules empowering the Speaker to assign the panel’s members, in consultation with the minority leader. That means McCarthy can also decline to seat members without relying on a full House vote. (read more)
Did Jeffries put lipstick on them?
I’m not sure how many people that will fool.
As long as CNN says they should be on the committee, I’m good with that. Swalwell dumped the Chinese chick right?
She was reportedly on a flight that crashed
https://www.crossbownation.com/threads/swalwell%E2%80%99s-chinese-girlfriend-fang-fang-died-in-china-plane-crash.125003/
Cue the Church Lady: How Convenient!
Heavens to Betsy! What an insane world!
To my knowledge, no, that was another Fang Fang on the crashed plane, not Fartwell’s punch.
I’m sorry that I don’t have a link. I remember reading the speculation at the time, but multiple sources on reputable aviation sites I consulted said that it was an older, unrelated person on the plane, and gave enough personal details of the deceased to credibly differentiate from Smartwell’s handler. Actually a somewhat common Chinese name.
Although, these days, we might have a miscreant joke such as FLB supposedly President.
YMMV.
LOL. She joins Loretta Fuddy, the lady in the birth cert. dept. in Hawaii who carried Obama’s secret to her watery deth.
No. She fled the country when she found out she was being investigated.
Sorry Dudeman, anyone who says that “what CNN recommends is fine with me” cannot be taken seriously.
My wife never understands sarcasm.
She’s probably a PLA Lt. Col. now.
More Preparation-H than lipstick
They are testing McCarthy’s manhood. Let’s hope he’s still a man.
A pig is still a pig, no matter how much lipstick or perfume you cover them with. Same goes for the ones promoting them.
Colonel Flagg – Nobody knows what intelligence knows mister, I’m intelligence and even I don’t know what I know.
Colonel Potter – I can’t argue with you there.
If I could just remember what I know, I would be a genius and could solve all of our problems!
Colonel Flagg: This won’t look good on your record.
Major Frank Burns : But Colonel, it’s just Reader’s Digest.
Colonel Flagg : Not if you eliminate the third, fifth, and sixth letters, then it’s Red’s Digest, comrade.
Colonel Flagg Leaving: I’m off.
Colonel Potter: I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Frank Burns: You’re with the CIA?
Colonel Flagg: No, I am with the CIC. I tell people I am with the CIA so that they think that I am with the CIB.
So that’s where Joe Biden gets his many excuses. Sounds just like something he has said.
Mr. Jeffries:
Your point, please? Were Jordan, Roy, Massie, Boebert, et al accepted on your committees?
“…eminently qualified…”?
“…distinguished leadership…”?
Pound sand.
Might also add to your letter the obvious and very public faults of both schifforbrains and swallowswell.
McCarthy has his first(?) test as speaker to keep his pact with the 20 that took him to 15 votes for speaker. What will he do? and if he does not keep his word-what will the 20 do?
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You have to give props to the guy. It takes special talent to lie as well as he does. Which is a tell that anything emitting from his vocal cords is a lie.
You are explicitly correct. I have ex-wives who must’ve taught him.
Just a bit of humor in a non humorous thread…..I had a handiman here today doing some work inside. He refers to his ex-wives (s) as Hitler One and Hitler Two. 🙂
I love it!
I have always called my ex’s #1 and #2.
Insert potty humor. 😆
How about the immortal words of Dr. Suess: Thing 1 and Thing 2. Or, as we say in KY, Thang 1 and Thang 2.
You boys are sure bringing down this thread. Shame on you.
When the House is forced to vote on Omar they need to make sure the deciding vote is submitted by MTG since Omar was one of the most rabid to have MTG removed from her committee assignments.
Btw. It doesn’t speak well about about Jeffries judgement or he doesn’t see value of the Intellegenc Committee when he writes Schiff … and Swalwell are both “eminently qualified” to continue their service on the committee
Swallowell is an expert on gas and THEE authority on finger pulling.
<Swallowell is an expert on gas…>
If he goes to church…
They make him sit in his own pew 🙂
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Corrupt and Compromised are qualifications in his world.
Yes and yes. Might be semantics, but I would add Controlled, which is the qualifier that matters most to them.
Great observation. This is the Uniparty breaking McCarthy free.
Jeffery’s is trying to test the group of 20.
The 20 put McCarthy in a box. If Jefferies can break the resolve of the 20 and free McCarthy then they can bring back some of the Uniparty methods.
It isn’t McCarthy that needs to stand fast. It is the 20.
Do you think it was a typo for “enema?”
Not good enough. Expel schitt and all the commie pr icks from Congress.
Wishful thinking, but I agree.
Don’t forget to yank their security clearances.
And keep their coats!
unlikely….Slo Joe’s executive department is in charge of issuing those….they are fine with traitors as their fearless leader sets such a fine example of that
They both need to be thrown out of the House. Schiff is a fabulous liar and Swalwell is compromised by a ChiCom spy.
The concept of the State and fascism is utterly lost on most people.
I get it.
In North America the opaqueness of fascism is quite intentional. Trudeau’s voters surely can’t see his most obvious fascist ideas and tendencies. Trudeau confiscated the bank accounts of little people who supported the truckers protest, but oh no, that was not fascism.
Fascism, in fact, is worship of the State. The State replaces God.
Fascism, as parodied, is Chaplin in the Great Dictator movie, a crazy little man ranting on stage.
So Trudeau, before the cameras, speaks softly and calmly as he announces police state measures. So easy.
Fascism in now everywhere. Schiff and Swalwell are fascists. Swalwell is a most dedicated agent of the fascist State China. The fascist State of China is the most powerful proponent of fascism that exists in the modern world. But they call themselves Communists? I give up..
Facisim is socialism with a degree of nationalism. Nazisim adds racism to the mixture.
Mussolini stated that fascism is government and big corporations colluding.
In support of your definition of Fascism I offer the following unattributed quote:
However: I tend to think of what you’re calling Fascism as Marxism(Socialist/Communist), Totalitarianism or Statism, the end result being tyranny however one labels it.
When purely defining Fascism, I prefer a slightly narrower definition:
Fascism can exist in a right or left leaning government environment, and perhaps for a time, a softer tyranny than a fully Marxist regime depending which faction – Corporate or Government – has the upper hand.
Marxism: State has captured/owns industry, allows loyalists to become wealthy.
Fascism: Corporations have largely captured the State/Politicians, and collude to mutual benefit, screwing the general population out of wealth/freedom.
🔼 America is Here 📍 🔼
While both factions seek supremacy over each other even as they collude, the loser is us if they win. A small number of elites at the top of the food pyramid, and average folks little better off than serfs or livestock.
WEFfies: Neo-feudalism under the guise of Social(ist) Justice.
Chyyyna: Ultra regimented Surveillance/Security state; Do as your told or we’ll kill you.
Just my two cents, I welcome better, clearer definitions. It’s complicated.
Edit: quote function does not seem to work, altered for clarity.
decidedly NOT…Fascism is a creature of the left finding its origins from Marxism and its little brother socialism
Godlessness, any way you slice it.
As was taught in school many moons ago, fascism is companies are supposedly privately owned, but controlled by government. Sort of like today.
Fascism is simply a tool used to advance a particular agenda.
Well of course Obama-Lite submitted their names, just to throw 2 monkeys in the works.
Spend some listening to this idiot speak; he is not a smart person, very transparent.
Looks like Matt and Company will have to fire on all cylinders to win this skirmish.
Such Sophomoric behavior.
I can’t tolerate watching him speak.
There’s something really wrong with his eyes.
And he thinks he’s channeling Zero.
Two things I see when I look at Schiff.
One is a picture of a young him sitting next to a child.
The other is a picture of him standing with Ed Buck.
That is all.
That is enough.
Ed Buck was a model and actor in Europe before he ran and then sold a business in Arizona? Republican before he switched parties to Democrat. Wiki bas a lot of links about him
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Buck
Betsy,
DING, DING, DING, you win 1st prize!!!!
Obama narrated a national parks documentary on Netflix which I cannot
watch because it is Obama. I would feel the same way about either Clinton,
Bush, Biden (can you imagine the comic relief tho).
My daughters laugh at me because I tell them I would pull an “Elvis” if
I had to watch those traitors. (Elvis used to shoot his televisions when
there was something on he didn’t like – probably a politician).
Right? Am also told he killed a perfectly good TV set when Robert Goulet started singing, supposedly saying “that will be enough of that sh*t”. Probably just told his butler to go get a new one from the garage and park the broken one on the curb for the trash truck.
Totally agree, Abigail.
Hakeem, Obama 2.0 , is not impressive. He does however check off some boxes, very low level intellect.
A lot of the posters on the Treehouse, can run circles around him.
McCarthy better be able to do the same, and handily.
Is anyone surprised? WTF did you think the Dems/Jefferies was going to do? This isn’t even a test.
Didn’t Pelosi also choose the two Republicans on the J6 Committee? So McCarthy should choose who he wants on the Intelligence committee.
BINGO.
But don’t count on finding any scumocrat traitors, because they all march in lock step.
The Speaker chooses the members of Select committees (like J6, Intelligence) and can reject certain members of the minority party. Nancy rejected Jordan and Banks for J6.
I hope McCarthy can have enough bone in his weak and cartilaginous spine to stand up against this small amount of pressure.
There wouldn’t be a showdown if Kevin Mc would just (in some fashion) casually say, “Oh, no. We won’t be doing that.” And then ignore them.
They want a showdown. Don’t give them one.
A known liar and a guy that slept with a spy and D-Rats insist that they be on the Intel Committee sez it all.
Both are compromised and are a threat to National Security (and ‘our democracy’), let alone an affront to basic human decency. If we had a real Justice system the compulsive liars sleeping with the enemy would have had more serious problems to worry about than just being butthurt about a committee assignment.
But we haven’t had one for decades. Not since at least slick willy’s day, and probably before that.
Without the magnificent 20, I have no doubt, despite some initial token pushback, they would eventually have found their way on the committee. Same ol’, same ol’ DC mechanizations. Because of the 20, they’re as good as south bay magnetic door stops. Lmao
Don’t laugh too hard, it may still happen if they start causing a big ruckus.
You can count on the fake media to not report what the Dems did to Republicans under Pelosi, so the great unwashed will think the Republicans are being autocrats here. This will be a perfect example of how Republicans lose in the battle for the hearts and minds of voters.
There will be the usual squawkers from the peanut gallery, but a majority are rooting for McCarthy to do his job and kick em to the curb for a change. The Dems will just move on to their next embarrassment.
Who pays any attention to the msm these days. I refuse to listen to any of them these days. They are NOT reporters. . . . they are just repeaters. Anyone can read those clips they have.
Maybe, for those, like my SIL’s who ONLY watch the tube. NO acquaintance with any other media. Took the jabs.
I do believe that people are beginning to wake up.
Thing is, this is, imho, a generational battle. We have a long row to hoe.
Just say no. Simple.
Yup.
All kabuki theater. Throw some red meat to the die hard Republicans so they forgive you when you stab them from behind shortly.
It’s all very silly.
The sad part: none of us here would take a bet those two don’t wind up on the HPSCI.
Lol, I would think the committee might want to investigate Swallwell and Schiff.
Tell the media pencil-neck will be seated when he provides the intel to prove Trump/Russia collusion. Bring his lying front and center.
Nice!
Retribution is fine. I don’t even care how hard they cry. But these two are seditious liars and have no business being in Congress, much less on highest security clearance Intel committee with access to everything.
No … they are unqualified. Bye!
McCarthy better show us what he is made off with this one. Pelosi refused Jim Jordan and another for the J6 Kabuki theater committee.
I look forward to watching this fight over Swalwell, Schiff and Omar. I hope the Jefferies/DemonRat moves pisses McCarthy off big time for questioning his recently acquired authority. I also hope it doesn’t end well for those three suspect representatives. JMHO.
I hope he gets majorly ticked, and vindictive as hell … And that he plays just as dirty as Hakeem the Dullard.
McCarthy should quote General McAuliffe at Bastogne and send back a letter that says “Nuts.”
Alternatively, he could quote Randy Jackson and say “That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.”
Seriously, not that those two responses aren’t serious suggestions, neither of those men are fit to serve on an intelligence committee. Let them whine and cry but keep them off the committee.
Make them take an IQ test.
Neither of them has the IQ of a tadpole.
Hameem Jefferies is acting just like the OLD Speaker…..just like Nancy Pelosi.
Better nip that in the bud, Speaker McCarthy.
I would suggest if given his way Jeffries would make Nanzi look like a nun….he is a hard-core Marxist
So.. will he bend over and allow them on his boat .?
Right! BULL!
I truly believe that Adam Schiff is an evil SOB! I sure hope McCarthy doesn’t give in to these globalist/commies!
“eminently qualified”
LOL
McCarthy should replace all of them on that whole committee. Or just say, it is not your call Hakeem.
Kevin McCarthy should play on the Nancy Pelosi reports of having an exorcism at her house—Like he is having an exorcism performed and Swalwell and Schitt are disappearing from the People’s House. DEMONS OUT!
Oh you are right. Howabout this:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253440/pelosi-reportedly-arranged-an-exorcism-of-her-home-can-any-catholic-priest-do-this
Pelosi couldn’t believe the backlash
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-pelosi-had-priests-perform-exorcism-on-house-after-husband-pauls-attack
NY Post says the attacker who is pleading innocent will be back in court Feb 23. Given all that is going on who knows if the country will still exist then, but interesting
https://nypost.com/2023/01/21/nancy-pelosi-summons-priests-to-exercise-home-of-evil-spirits/amp/
Hakum jeffries acts like obama lite.
He is but one of many evil reps.
Meanwhile most of congress ignores we have a secret document spy as “president”.
One who is a traitor many times over.
Dear Hakeeeem,
Your request has been submitted, considered, and subsequently & whole-heartedly……D E N I E D !!!!!
Sincerely,
The GOP Majority
Democrats don’t want to play by the new rules they instituted when they held the House majority. After years of Pelosi’s tyrannical reign, Jeffries now wants Republicans to take a step back and unitarily disarm.
In the end, this will be McCarthy’s decision because the Intelligence Committee is a select committee. There is no reason to fold here, and if the new Speaker does, it will signal his #Uniparty bona-fides.
The REAL test will be the vote to keep the America hater Omar off of Foreign Affairs. If the Repubs…don’t stick together, which I doubt, they will be less than effective.
Excuse me. The Democrats lost the majority in the House. That means the are subject to the new majority led by the new Speaker. Where do the people get the idea games trying to demonize the Republicans is productive. Frankly I’m sick of the people and would prefer to start seeing sanctions against these seditionists.
Demonrats are EVIL.
It’s beyond maddening they manage to maintain any support at all…
I think, ultimately, it’s just purchased.
Dumb and Dumber
Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, and Swalwell are both “eminently qualified” to continue their service on the committee. That Duo is not “eminently qualified” to clean the public restrooms in the House. The name of the committee, “Intelligence”, alone should disqualify both. Jefferies is just following Nancy’s directions.
I envy the Dems loyalty to their party. There will be no dissenting votes from their side on any issue for the next two years.
Eff them.
Yep what you said
Eff U, Aholes.
If you RINOS accept this, you are also Aholes.
This is a perfect opportunity for McCarthy to show some testicular fortitude in his position as Speaker of the House.
Tell Hakeem on he can go pound sand. And by the way just for general purpose, the committee will be investigating Schiff and Swalwell.
Then subpoena their phone records just like Schiff did to the Republicans on the committee.
Quit placating these traitors and play smash mouth .
Dems trying to get McCarthy ousted…and if he falls for that trap, then he needs to go.
McCarthy should be FIRED up he’s being set up..
Political theater.
” These are the best chests and liars we have”
Hallam Jeffries
Another test for the amoral McCarthy.
Exactly…allowing is a FAIL…..call for his job.
Plain & very simple: McCarthy says NO!
And if McCarthy FAILS….the 10 or the 20 or the ‘gang’ should call for him to resign.
RUN him out of office if he allows this crap.
It is that simple…NO.
JUST.SAY.NO! This is not hard………………..
Well not for us, but it is, or can be, for them.
What will weak Kevin do now?