The women set a high bar but their colleague, Jim Jordan can meet it.<\/p>\n
At first blush it would seem that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have an insurmountable lead if recent actions by those two women are the measuring stick.\u00a0 They both serve in the United States House of Representatives and seem to be engaged in a competition to see which of them can come up with the most effective way to demonstrate their stupidity.\u00a0 Their records, of course, set a low bar.<\/p>\n
Prior to entering the House, Rep. Greene had a\u00a0legacy<\/a>\u00a0that some might have believed gave her an insurmountable lead. Commenting on the Las Vegas mass shooting in which 58 people were killed she said the event might have been staged in order to help those in favor of anti-gun legislation.\u00a0 Describing the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that resulted in the death of 20 children,she called it a hoax. She said the killing of 14 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged. In February 2019 she said that two of her House Colleagues who were sworn in without their hands on the Bible were not \u201creally official\u201d members of congress.\u00a0 They are both Muslim and Rep. Greene said:\u00a0 \u201cThey really should go back to the Middle East.\u201d Those comments standing alone should have given her the clear lead over any of her colleagues.\u00a0 It was not to be.\u00a0 Lauren Boebert entered the fray.<\/p>\n Though at something of a disadvantage when competing with Rep. Greene given Greene\u2019s long prominence on the national stage, Rep. Boebert is, making her mark when it comes to bizarre behavior and postings while in Congress.\u00a0 In addition to insisting on her right to be armed while wandering \u00a0the halls of the capital, she refused to open her bag when trying to enter the House chambers when she set off a metal detector alarm.\u00a0 Prior to the beginning of the January 6 insurrection and as the crowd was mobilizing in the square a few blocks from the capitol, she tweeted that \u201cToday is 1776.\u201d In another tweet she said the Democratic National Committee had rigged elections.<\/p>\n The two women found common ground in their opposition to the National Marrow Donor Program. The National Marrow Donor Program matches bone marrow donors and cord blood units with patients who have leukemia and other diseases. \u00a0Rep Greene said her opposition to the bill was\u00a0because<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNothing in this bill prevents the funding of aborted fetal tissue by taxpayers.\u201d\u00a0 Using that as the governing criterion, Rep. Greene can justify every negative vote she casts in the House since that could be said of almost every bill ever considered by the House.\u00a0 \u00a0Rep. Boebert explained her negative vote by saying:\u00a0 This bill added hundreds of millions of dollars to the national\u00a0debt, while not receiving a CBO score or going through the committee process.” The bill passed the House in a 415-2 vote.\u00a0 The foregoing notwithstanding, the two women do not occupy the crazy space alone. Their male colleague in the House, Jim Jordan, \u00a0is good company for them.<\/p>\n Jim has been in the House since 2007 and that has given him plenty of time to establish his credentials as a nut job and examples are abundant.\u00a0 In an interview with Tony Perkins in 2013 Jordan agreed with the idea that the Obama administration was trying to buy up all the available ammunition in the United States as a way of depriving Americans of their 2d Amendment right to have guns, since guns without ammunition are useless. His attacks on attempts to control the pandemic, however, set a new low bar for hm.\u00a0 He has demonstrated it repeatedly in his repeated attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n In a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus in July 2020 he suggested to Dr. Fauci that rules limiting the size of church gatherings were an infringement on the First Amendment Constitutional right to freedom of religion.\u00a0 In a December 2020 tweet he said:\u00a0 \u201cDr. Fauci says Americans should avoid travel over the holidays.\u00a0 What will he cancel next?\u00a0 Saying \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d?<\/p>\n In a hearing before the House Select Coronavirus Subcommittee on April 15, 2021 he addressed Dr. Fauci\u2019s written statement to the Subcommittee in which Dr. Fauci said the pandemic still demanded restrictions on what people can do.\u00a0 Demonstrating his keen grasp of things scientific, Rep. Jordan said:\u00a0 \u201cIn your written statement you say now is not the time to pull back on masking, physical distancing and avoiding congregate settings.\u00a0 When is the time? When do Americans get their freedom back.\u201d Continuing his attack on Dr. Fauci \u00a0he said that the mandate that the restrictions that had been imposed right after the pandemic began had turned into \u201ca year of lost liberty.\u201d Articulating his stupidity so no one would miss it, he asked: \u201cWhat has to happen before Americans get more freedom.\u201d\u00a0 Happy to instruct the errant congressman, Dr. Fauci gave the obvious answer that would occur when the level of infection was so low as to no longer pose a threat. Undaunted, Jordan then said Americans\u2019 liberties had been assaulted, and asked Dr. \u00a0Fauci whether he believed that \u201cthe Constitution is suspended during a crisis.\u201d\u00a0 It was a rhetorical question.<\/p>\n Jordan, Greene, and Boebert make a good team. \u00a0The Republicans in the House of Representatives are fortunate to number them among their members. The rest of us less so.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post What Does Jim Jordan Want?<\/a> appeared first on CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The women set a high bar but their colleague, Jim Jordan can meet it. At first blush it would seem that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have an insurmountable lead if recent actions by those two women are the measuring stick.\u00a0 They both serve in the United States House of Representatives and seem to More<\/a><\/p>\n The post What Does Jim Jordan Want?<\/a> appeared first on CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144439,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143845\/revisions\/144439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}