{"id":14928,"date":"2024-02-07T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T02:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14928"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:19:14","slug":"house-broken-bradcast-272024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14928","title":{"rendered":"House, Broken: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/7\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_MikeJohnson-shame_020724.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I&#8217;d say Tuesday was a high (or low?) watermark for GOP failure, but on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we think it wise to never under (or over?) estimate them. [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our many stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nikki Haley<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/07\/haley-wins-nevada-primary-that-nets-no-delegates-00140036\">lost<\/a> the one-person Republican Presidential Primary in <b>Nevada<\/b> by more than 30 points. (To be fair, it&#8217;s not entirely her fault. <b>Donald Trump<\/b> rigged it. And he&#8217;s setting up Republicans in the state for failure this November regarding the state&#8217;s voting systems.) <b>Joe Biden<\/b> reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/biden-win-nevada-primary-democratic-rcna120367\">won<\/a> his mostly one-person Democratic Primary in the state on Tuesday with nearly 90% of the vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>With three different swing-state GOP state Chairs (in <b>Florida<\/b>, <b>Arizona<\/b> and <b>Michigan<\/b>) ousted in recent weeks in scandals related to allegations of rape, bribery, or financial impropriety (and <b>Nevada<\/b>&#8216;s GOP Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/nevada-gop-fake-electors-plead-not-guilty-to-felony-charges-in-las-vegas\">heading to criminal trial<\/a> in a few weeks for forgery as a fake 2020 elector), Trump&#8217;s once-favored Chair of the RNC, <b>Ronna Romney McDaniel<\/b>, is being <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-chair-trump-979f357db73ca5505f12f91977f55b3b\">pushed out<\/a> in the middle of a Presidential election year. Why? Trump&#8217;s MAGA faithful are trying to find someone, anyone &#8230; anyone but him &#8230; to blame for their repeated, post-2016 election humiliations. Why not Ronna?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But the humiliation continued on Tuesday, as newly tapped and freshly failed GOP House Speaker <b>Mike Johnson<\/b> engineered what <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/house-vote-mayorkas-impeachment-ef19c9c2\">described<\/a> as &#8220;an embarrassment for the party&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/2724-punchbowl-news-am\/\">Punchbowl<\/a> called &#8220;one of the most embarrassing days in recent House GOP history&#8221; (which is saying quite a lot!), and <i>WaPo<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/02\/06\/house-mayorkas-impeachment\/\">raved<\/a>: &#8220;a stunning rebuke&#8221; for a months-long impeachment probe by Republicans hoping to identify &#8220;High Crimes and Misdemeanors&#8221; by Dept. of Homeland Security <b>Alejandro Mayorkas<\/b>. Turns out, they couldn&#8217;t even convince their full caucus that he&#8217;d committed any, and one heroic Dem showed up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-02-07\/congressman-left-hospital-bed-to-head-off-mayorkas-impeachment?sref=6et1qv7R\">from his hospital bed<\/a> amidst chaos on the House Floor to deliver Johnson and <b>Marjorie Taylor Green<\/b>&#8216;s phony impeachment scheme an embarrassing final blow. At least for Tuesday night, in the first impeachment vote ever against a sitting member of the Executive Branch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Actually, it wasn&#8217;t the final blow on Tuesday night for House Republicans. Johnson held a subsequent vote for aid to <b>Israel<\/b>. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/aid-package-israel-fails-house-dealing-setback-gop-107007821\">went down in humiliating flames<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All of that comes on the heels of Congressional GOP insistence that they would block any aid package for <b>Ukraine<\/b> &#8212; now facing a very real existential crisis and invasion from a hostile neighbor &#8212; unless the bill included a massive amount of money for the U.S. southern border, where Trump and Republicans <i>pretend<\/i> there is an ongoing &#8220;existential crisis&#8221; and &#8220;invasion&#8221;.  So, Dems gave in and agreed with Senate Republicans to add a very hard-right border deal to the aid package &#8212; only to see Trump throw a fit at a possible real solution for the only real(ish) election year issue he seems to have left. So now House Republicans are vowing they will only consider an aid bill for Ukraine (and <b>Israel<\/b> and <b>Taiwan<\/b>) if it <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> include money for the U.S. southern border. <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/wow-54\">Seriously<\/a>. It&#8217;s as insane and stupid and dysfunctional and embarrassing as it sounds. And, it might even be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YB-Rvp1diwc\">hilarious<\/a>, but for the fact that democracy remains on the brink in Europe, as the near-entirety of the <b>Republican Party<\/b> now cowers to the personal whims of their four-time indicted cult leader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Popular Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.fbi.gov\/archives\/neworleans\/press-releases\/2010\/no052610b.htm\">criminal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/AcornPimpHoax\">pretend fake &#8220;pimp&#8221;<\/a>, and definitely fake &#8220;journalist&#8221; <b>James O&#8217;Keefe<\/b> quietly issued <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesOKeefeIII\/status\/1754607379897827598?s=20\">a tweet<\/a> on Monday night, admitting that his reporting on 2020 election fraud in Pennsylvania was &#8220;wrong&#8221; and that he is &#8220;aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fraud occurred in the Erie [Pennsylvania] Post Office during the 2020 Presidential Election.&#8221;\u009d It took him four years and a begrudging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/james-okeefe-project-veritas-settle-suit-bogus-voter-fraud-claims-cite-rcna137366\">lawsuit settlement<\/a> to &#8220;correct&#8221; his false story about supposed massive mail ballot fraud by the USPS. Trump continues to fraudulently pimp that nonsense to this day. All of this on the heels of O&#8217;Keefe being pushed out of his own fake news organization, called Project Veritas, last year amid allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse of employees. Or, as his partner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/AcornPimpHoax\">2010 fake ACORN &#8220;pimp&#8221; hoax videos<\/a> described it when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/12\/project-veritas-hannah-giles-resigns-alleged-past-illegality\">quitting the group<\/a> herself in December: &#8220;an unsalvageable mess &#8212; one wrought with strong evidence of past illegality and financial improprieties.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally today, some listener mail with an important coda to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14925\">our mind-blowing interview on Tuesday<\/a> with <b>Susan Greenhalgh<\/b>, election integrity advocate and consultant on the just-completed civil suit trial by <b>Marilyn Marks<\/b> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/coalitionforgoodgovernance.org\">Coalition of Good Governance<\/a> against the State of <b>Georgia<\/b> and its Sec. of State <b>Brad Raffensperger<\/b>. The suit seeks to move the state from easily-hackable, unverifiable touchscreen voting systems to verifiable hand-marked paper ballots; And, some email on <b>Taylor Swift<\/b> and the <b>Superbowl<\/b>, which I thought we decided we <i>wouldn&#8217;t<\/i> be discussing this week on <i>The BradCast<\/i>?!!&#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-ResultsNV-GOPImpeachmentBorderFailure_OKeefeFraud_ListenerMail_020724.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>I&#8217;d say Tuesday was a high (or low?) watermark for GOP failure, but on The BradCast, we think it wise to never under (or over?) estimate them. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] Among our many stories covered today&#8230; Nikki Haley lost the one-person Republican Presidential Primary in Nevada by more [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,393,1363,1631,89,675,513,479,969,1611,106,28,72,650,261,178,428,449,1335,320,477,1922,120,356,690,774,147,300,295,166,198,233,698,1554],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-al-green","category-alejandro-mayorkas","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-election-2024","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-georgia","category-greg-abbott","category-immigration","category-impeachment","category-israel","category-james-okeefe","category-jamie-raskin","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-mike-johnson","category-missouri","category-nevada","category-nfl","category-nikki-haley","category-lava","category-republicans","category-rnc","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-ukraine","category-usps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928","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=14928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14928"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}