'Contemptible': GOP strategist slams 'cowardly' Republicans for allowing speakership chaos
GOP strategist Tara Setmayer tore into the Republican party during Tuesday's episode of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes after the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan announced that losing the bid for speaker would not deter him from asking his colleagues to back him in another vote.
The Ohio congressman originally pulled out of the race, making way for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) to have a chance at the seat, but when the Louisiana lawmaker ended his bid Thursday, October 12, Jordan decided to throw his hat in the ring again.
"Steve Scalise actually has experience in leadership and was a whip and understands how to count votes," Setmayer told Hayes. "Jim Jordan has not led anything other than being a political wrecking ball for the entire time that he's been in Congress. There's a reason why he is called a 'legislative terrorist' by [ex-House Speaker John] Boehner (R-OH). So, how would you expect the guy that has done nothing but tear things down to get in there and all of a sudden be a team player and lead a project to build something? He doesn't know what he is doing. This is what he does. And the fact that Republicans are so cowardly that only 20 of them said 'no' to Jim Jordan, only 20 out of 217 — or however many there are now — that is, to me, contemptible, because none of these people have respect for the constitution anymore."
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She continued, "Jim Jordan should be, on his face, disqualified from being the speaker of the House — whether it's his role in the insurrection and what he knew beforehand, whether he defied congressional subpoenas — that right there should be disqualifying. He doesn't even respect the rules. He could not face the officers who were injured that day, like [retired Metropolitan] Officer [Michael] Fanone and others at a congressional hearing. He's a bully everywhere else, but he did not want to face the officers that protected them on January 6 — a plot that he was a part of. So, there are so many reasons why Jordan should not be anywhere near the speaker's gavel. But what speaks more to this, what is more alarming, is that over 200 Republicans are okay with someone that has no respect for the constitution. In the book How Democracies Die, there's a quote there that says, 'The erosion of democracy is often imperceptible by the masses. Because it's slow, and it happens in a way that people normalize. Putting Jim Jordan in the speaker seat normalizes the destruction of our democracy and our constitution, and it's at the hands of Republicans. Shame on them for this."
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'Shame on' the 'cowardly' Republicans for allowing Jordan speakership fight: GOP strategistyoutu.be
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