On Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on Twitter about the Matt Gaetz nomination.
I'm not a regular follower of hers on X, mostly because I've just never really bothered – I don't even follow my own congressman, mostly because Sanford Bishop is about as entertaining as a wet fart so I don't need to see any of that – but from time to time, she does say something interesting that shows up in my feed. This, in response to the Matt Gaetz ethics report potentially being released, was a prime example:
For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate,
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 19, 2024
If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see.
Yes..
all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed
all…
Honestly, I'm down with this.
I don't know if the allegations against Gaetz are true or not. I know the FBI investigated and didn't file charges, which is saying something considering how the FBI has comported itself as an agency for years now, but that doesn't necessarily mean nothing happened. It just means there's not enough evidence it did, which means for all practical purposes, he's in the clear.
If ethics reports are going to be potentially released, release them all.
After all, millions of taxpayer dollars have been used as hush money to settle, among other things, allegations of sexual misconduct against members of Congress for years. We've been paying to protect the people who work for us and to cover up their various crimes.
Ethics reports were undoubtedly filed in many, if not all, of these claims.
Roll them all out and burn everything to the ever-loving ground.
We, the American people, have a right to trust that the people we choose as our leaders are decent people. I don't expect perfection from them, I just want them to be normal in all the ways that matter. That includes not being predators, abusive, or anything of the sort. Basically, we have a right to know if the people we elected are actually sociopaths or not.
Or, more accurately, if they lack control over their sociopathic tendencies.
Will this burn some Republicans? Probably, but good riddance. I personally think it'll burn a whole lot more Democrats, but that's beside the point.
Everywhere we turn, any hint of impropriety can be twisted into a scandal. The allegations against Gaetz were tossed by law enforcement for lack of evidence, and yet we're forced to still talk about them because they're scandalous. Meanwhile, how many lawmakers preening about these allegations, pretending they're as pure as the driven snow, have been found to do things just as bad, if not worse?
These people work for us. We have a right to know if they're heinous people.
So regardless of what happens to Gaetz, I say open all the reports. Make them public. Put them there for every American voter to see. They're public officials, living on the taxpayer's dime in return for doing a terrible job running the country. They shouldn't be shielded from scrutiny on top of everything else.
Yes, I get that not all of them are guilty of what they were accused of, but that should be included, too. Let us see and debate and go from there.
I mean, I remember the Congressional Check Cashing Scandal all those years ago, and that was just them writing bad checks. Some of this promises to be so much worse.