Political Quotes

“this morning the Republican majority of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee authorized another smattering of subpoenas in what seems to be an ongoing effort to disparage a former Vice President and his family. While the rest of the country is busy fighting COVID-19, this is what the Homeland Security Committee has been up to--using the powers of the Senate to, in effect, conduct opposition research for President Trump's campaign. The Republican chairman has said he plans to release a report about it next week--merely a month before election day. There is a dark similarity here to the Republican effort in the House in the previous election to discredit the Democratic Presidential candidate with the Select Committee on Benghazi. You may remember the now-minority leader of the House Republican caucus bragging that the Republicans created the committee to bring down Hillary's poll numbers. You know what they say about a political gaffe: It is when politicians tell the truth. Well, it seems like the Republican chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has made the same gaffe that Minority Leader McCarthy made in 2016.…”