From a reality-based perspective, it was heartening to see the censure resolution targeting Adam Schiff fail. But stevebenen writes that the baseless effort still received far too much Republican support.
When the GOP leader set out to kick Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee, Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana,
describing the effort as a “charade,” adding, “Speaker McCarthy needs to stop ‘bread and circuses’ in Congress and start governing for a change.”Six months later, the anti-Schiff campaign continues. NBC NewsThe House on Wednesday rejected a GOP-backed effort to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., with almost two dozen Republican lawmakers bucking their party’s attempt to publicly rebuke him. The House voted 225-196 to set aside the resolution, introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.
From a reality-based perspective, this was a good-news/bad-news result. The good news is, the resolution failed because, which had the effect of blocking a vote on the censure resolution itself. The bad news is, 196 House Republicans — nearly 90% of the conference — were content to go along. They should’ve known better. The resolution — which called for an ethics investigation into Schiff and sought a $16 million fine — was predicated in large part on the idea that the former House Intelligence Committee chairman lied about the seriousness of Donald Trump’s Russia scandal.
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