Timothy Birdnow

So why didn't the Biden Justice Department under consiglier Merrick Garland not bring any charges against Gaetz?

Gaetz 'has a real problem here,' former Ethics chairman says

Do notice they spoke with FORMER chair - Charles W. Dent - and not the current head of that body (Michael Guest). This is the same Congressman Dent who by his own admission voted for Kamala Harris in the last election. The same Charlie Dent who supported impeaching Trump and who claimed the GOP lost it's soul for supporting Trump. It was Dent who whispered to the media that Republicans were secretely disgusted by Trump and wanted him gone.

I put as much stock in Mr. Dent's views on this ethics report as I would on Nancy Pelosi's.

The chair of the Ethics Committee - Michael Guest - is on record disagreeing with the decision to take these allegations (which have not been adjudicated in any court of law) public.

Read the report and Guest's reply .

The House Ethics Committee has five Republicans and five Democrats serving on it. It was guaranteed all five Democrats would vote to release this - they take any and every opportunity to damage the GOP. Two Republicans joined the five Democrats to release the report, and given it was a secret vote we now do not know who they were, but I am fairly certain we can assume they were cut from the same cloth as Rep. Dent.

How much did Kevin McCarthy have to do with this vote? McCarthy clearly wanted revenge on Gaetz for forcing him out, and he still has many friends in Congress. I wish we knew who the Republicans on the Committee who voted for the release were so we could see the connections between them and McCarthy.

I did a Google search in an effort to find who actually did the legwork to produce the document with little result. Congressmen weren't out there beating the bushes for allegations, certainly; they needed private investigators, or used the FBI or other government investigatory services. Who actually brought the information to them?

I'm sorry but I smell a big fat rat with this whole thing. This reeks of revenge fiction.

Gaetz has suggested he might rejoin Congress long enough to burn the place down with all of the sexual antics and corruption in the hallowed halls of Congress. I hope he does. That should have happened long, long ago.

BTW one of the allegations is Gaetz paid for sex. Why? He was a powerful and well-known Congressman and no doubt women would happily share his bed. Underage girls all the more! He didn't need to spring for it. Did Bill Clinton ever need to pay for it, even when he was just a local politician in Litttle Rock? Did Ted Kennedy?

And the hypocrisy of accusing Gaetz of drug use! This from the Democrats who made legalizing narcotics one of their signature issues over the last few years!

Oh, and where did Gaetz get "tens of thousand of dollars" to pay for all this when Congressmen are so poor they have to push a raise through for themselves in a C.R.? Why didn't the IRS come after him?

This is a Christmas tale, sort of like something Dickens would write, only it is the decent guy being hounded by evil spirits.

Many  outlets are calling this report "required Christmas reading" - I would agree it fits with scary ghost tales told at Christmas, but it ain't Scrooge who is at fault.

Anyone believe for a moment this would have been released had Gaetz not just been nominated by Trump for Attorney General?

D.C. works like the mob; they look for anything they can take someone out with, then hold it pending need. Just like the John Grishom novel "The Firm". I wonder who ISN'T being blackmailed in Washington?

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