{"id":14864,"date":"2023-12-05T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2023-12-05T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:19:15","slug":"gop-impeachment-follies-bradcast-1252023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14864","title":{"rendered":"GOP Impeachment Follies: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 12\/5\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_MikeJohnson-JamesComer_120523.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s impeachment madness on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>! Also, a whole bunch of Republicans are otherwise quitting, backing down or facing jail time. In other words, Tuesday.  [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tommy Tuberville<\/b> (R-AL), a U.S. Senator and grown man who goes by the name Tommy, finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/05\/politics\/tommy-tuberville-releases-holds\/index.html\">backed down<\/a> from his pointless, one-man, months-long blockade of promotions for more than 400 U.S. military officials. He had been protesting a Pentagon abortion policy that none of the officers in question had anything to do with. The Senate quickly promoted all of them by simple voice vote shortly thereafter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>House Speaker <b>Mike Johnson<\/b> (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-impeachment-congress-house-republicans-a0381afd3126017d14bc050c589bde1a\">announces<\/a> he has &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to hold a floor vote for a (revenge) Impeachment inquiry of <b>President Biden<\/b> next week. The announcement follows the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3R7YZ8K\">bombshell disclosure<\/a> by Oversight Committee Chair and supergenius Rep. <b>James Comer<\/b> (R-KY) that Republican investigators have discovered <strike>secret monthly payments made by China to Joe Biden and laundered through his son, Hunter!<\/strike> Err&#8230;Three monthly payments of about a $1,400 each from <b>Hunter Biden<\/b> to his dad <i>in 2018<\/i> to repay him for the purchase of a used truck the then former Vice President helped him buy. (Yes, the same <strike>bombshell<\/strike> loan repayment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRaskin\/status\/1731777276730036702\">reported<\/a> almost two years ago by the <i>New York Post<\/i>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The bow-tied, far-right, but not-insane-enough-for-today&#8217;s-House-Republicans Rep. <b>Patrick McHenry<\/b> (R-NC) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/rep-patrick-mchenry-served-temporary-speaker-will-retire-rcna128136\">had enough<\/a>. He joined a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ken-buck-colorado-retire-republican-conflict-congress-3fb96d1e158405ab78892fdf71632b46\">growing number<\/a> of colleagues announcing they will be quitting at the end of this term. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An important <i>CORRECTION<\/i> following my mention yesterday of <i>North<\/i> Dakota Gov. <b>Doug Burgum<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/04\/doug-burgum-drops-presidential-bid-00129893\">dropping out<\/a> of the GOP 2024 Presidential race, and the <b>RNC<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4342117-rnc-debate-chris-christie-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-vivek-ramaswamy-newsnation-megyn-kelly\/\">announces<\/a> the four candidates who have qualified to appear at Wednesday&#8217;s night&#8217;s &#8220;Presidential Primary Debate&#8221; in <b>Alabama<\/b>. (Neither Burgum nor <b>Trump<\/b> will be there. <b>DeSantis<\/b>, <b>Haley<\/b>, <b>Ramaswamy<\/b> and <b>Christie<\/b> will, for some reason.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The three top officials for <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>&#8216; &#8220;Never Back Down&#8221; super PAC have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/12\/4\/2209448\/-Three-officials-have-left-a-pro-DeSantis-super-PAC-in-the-group-s-latest-shake-up\">backed down<\/a>. They quite over the weekend, joining a growing number of other Never Back Downers who have exited the Florida Governor&#8217;s losing 2024 campaign in recent days. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Republican Cochise County officials, <b>Peggy Judd<\/b> and <b>Tom Crosby<\/b>, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-cochise-county-election-indictment-58dc66505de5568291224d30f3653cd0\">indicted<\/a> on state charges in <b>Arizona<\/b> for conspiracy and interference of an election officer after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-deadline-2022-midterms-certification-d6a1ea4020c26313a3124931c14b79fb\">refusing<\/a> to certify the county&#8217;s 2022 election results because&#8230;well, tune in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kim Taylor<\/b>, the wife of Republican Woodbury County, <b>Iowa<\/b> Supervisor and failed GOP Congressional candidate has been <a href=\"https:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/crime-courts\/voter-fraud-politics-elections-federal-court\/article_1120882e-8881-11ee-87e1-a70cf6ccbca1.html\">convicted<\/a> on 52 counts of election fraud-related charges for falsifying voter registrations and casting dozens of fraudulent votes in the names of others in the 2020 election. Her husband, <b>Jeremy Taylor<\/b>, named as a co-conspirator, has yet to be indicted for some reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14863\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> (and our only one this week, due to our coverage of this week&#8217;s dumb GOP &#8220;Presidential Primary Debate&#8221;) with a bit of surprisingly good news out of the U.N.&#8217;s <b>COP28<\/b> climate conference this week in <b>Dubai<\/b>, and more good news on the Biden <b>EPA<\/b>&#8216;s new rule that will eliminate all 9 million toxic lead water pipes across the entire nation&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-GOPImpeachFollies-DeSantisChaos-McHenryQuits-2022IndictmentsCochiseAZ-GOPFraud2020IA_120523.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s impeachment madness on today&#8217;s BradCast! Also, a whole bunch of Republicans are otherwise quitting, backing down or facing jail time. In other words, Tuesday. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a U.S. Senator and grown man who goes by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,70,89,675,543,272,479,1888,969,1630,1611,106,6,1858,178,74,1837,320,1372,477,1922,267,300,858,1509,233,1932,186],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-arizona","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-defense","category-donald-trump","category-doug-burgum","category-election-2020","category-election-2022","category-election-2024","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-hunter-biden","category-impeachment","category-iowa","category-james-comer","category-joe-biden","category-ken-buck","category-kpfk","category-mike-johnson","category-patrick-mchenry","category-republicans","category-ron-johnson","category-tommy-tuberville","category-us-senate","category-uae","category-united-nations","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}