Gaetzgate

[Rev. Rye]

I hear that House Ethics is having it's own investigation.

I'm sure they'll scold him vigorously.

Yeah, whatever the Ethics Committee can do would really hinge entirely on the Congressperson in question A) knowing what shame is, B) being able to take their recommendations to heart, and C) both parties giving a shit about the rule of law. But, as far as I can tell, Gaetz has no shame whatsoever, and belongs to a party that cares so much about the rule of law that, if the President was of their party and openly incited an insurrection to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, overturn the will of the people, and attempt a self-coup, and did so live on national television, they'd refuse to convict him. Not even if it's the legislative equivalent of getting Joe Pesci knocked off in Goodfellas



(I also considered posting the scene from Jackie Brown where Ordell kills Beaumont, but, frankly, I'm not sure a scene where N-bombs get dropped with abandon would fly with this forum, even if it is the kind with the "a".)

And expulsion from Congress is a once-in-a-century thing, and it already happened this century.