MOMENT WE FIND OURSELVES IN
REGARDLESS OF THE CULPRIT AND
THE MOTIVE, AND I WANT TO TALK
ABOUT THAT POLITICAL MOMENT.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS SHIFTED
TO THE LEFT TO SOME EXTENT, BUT
THE MAINSTREAM OF THE PARTY
INCLUDING ITS LEFT FLANK OPERATE
SQUARELY IN THE REALM OF REASON,
FACTS, REALITY.
MEANWHILE, THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE MAINSTREAM
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE
CONSPIRACY ADDLED FAR RIGHT HAS
ESSENTIALLY VANISHED.
INDEED, OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS
WE HAVE REACHED THE POINT WHERE
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT
DEMOCRATS ARE SATAN WORSHIPPING
CANNIBALISTIC PEDOPHILES ARE
EMBRACED BY A REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT, AS WELL AS ELECTED
OFFICIALS IN HIS PARTY.
FUELING THEIR DELUSIONAL
CONVICTION ON JANUARY THE 6th
THAT THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO
ASSAULT OUR CAPITOL AND ATTACK
OUR DEMOCRACY.
THERE’S THIS NEW BOOK ABOUT THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT TRIES TO
EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED, HOW IT IS
THAT THE RIGHT DESCENDED INTO,
QUOTE, CRAZY TOWN."
THE AUTHOR POINTS OUT WELL
BEFORE THE RISE OF TRUMP EVEN AS
FAR BACK AS 2010 AND THE RISE OF
TEA PARTY, YOU COULD BE A TOTAL
MORON AND GET ELECTED JUST BY
HAVING AN R NEXT TO YOUR NAME.
MANY SUCH MORONS WERE.
THE AUTHOR CONTINUES,
COMPROMISE?
THAT WASN’T THEIR THING.
A LOT OF THEM WANTED TO BLOW UP
WASHINGTON.
HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT MANY
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
WERE JUST THINKING OF HOW TO
FUND-RAISE OFF OF OUTRAGE OR HOW
THEY COULD GET ON HANNITY THAT
NIGHT, ADDING THEY DIDN’T REALLY
WANT LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES, THEY
WANTED WEDGE ISSUES AND
CONSPIRACIES AND CRUSADES.
THE AUTHOR GOES ON TO SAY THAT
THE GOP WAS INFILTRATED BY
WILD-EYED CRAZIES BACKED BY A
FOX NEWS OBSESSED BY KOOKY
CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
WHO IS THIS AUTHOR?
IT’S FORMER REPUBLICAN HOUSE
SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER IN HIS NEW
BOOK, AN EXTRACT FROM WHICH IS
IN "POLITICO" TODAY.
BOEHNER IS POSITIONING HIMSELF
AS THE VOICE OF REASON, A WINE
DRINKING CIGARETTE SMOKING OLD
SCHOOL REPUBLICAN WHO CAN’T
STAND THE NEW BREED THAT’S TAKEN
OVER.
>> TAKE IT FROM ME, YOU’LL NEVER
KNOW WHERE YOU’LL END UP.
THAT’S FREEDOM.
I’LL RAISE A GLASS TO THAT ANY
DAY.
P.S., TED CRUZ GO [ BLEEP ]
YOURSELF.
>> JOHN BOEHNER WANTS US TO PINE
FOR A SIMPLER TIME WHERE
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS WERE NOT
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS OR ACTIVELY
WORKING TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY BUT
RATHER SIMPLE, HARDWORKING
CORPORATE STOOGES WHO WOULD
LITERALLY DISTRIBUTE BIG
TOBACCO’S CAMPAIGN CHECKS ON THE
HOUSE FLOOR.
AS BOEHNER DID IN 1995.
THE PROBLEM WITH BOEHNER’S
ATTEMPT TO SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM
THIS NEW CLASS OF REPUBLICANS IS
THAT HE LITERALLY HELPED USHER
THEM INTO POWER.
BOEHNER THOUGHT HE COULD MANAGE
AND USE THE TEA PARTY TO HIS
BENEFIT AS ONE FORMER AIDE OF
HIS SAID, HE THOUGHT OF HIMSELF
AS SOMEONE WHO WAS OF THE TEA
PARTY MENTALITY BEFORE THE TEA
PARTY WAS A THING, AND BACK IN
2009, BOEHNER EFFECTIVELY THREW
IN WITH THE TEA PARTY APPEARING
WITH MICHELLE BACHMAN, THE
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE OF HER
TIME AT A RALLY AT THE CAPITOL
IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS OF FAR
RIGHT PROTESTERS WHO WERE AN
EARLY MANIFESTATION OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY’S
CONSPIRETORIAL AND DARK FUTURE.
BOEHNER THOUGHT HE COULD RIDE
THAT WAVE, JUST LIKE PAUL RYAN
THOUGHT HE COULD RIDE THE TRUMP
WAVE IN 2016.
FOR THEM THE TEA PARTY AND THE
TRUMP BASE WERE A MEANS TO AN
END, AN INJECTION OF ENERGY THAT
COULD HELP THEM STAY IN POWER,
AND THE REASON WE ARE WHERE WE
ARE TODAY IS BECAUSE THESE OLD
SCHOOL REPUBLICANS, QUOTE,
UNQUOTE, DIDN’T STAND UP TO THE
CRAZIES.
THEY EMBRACED THEM.
HOWEVER UNEASILY.
AND NOW THE CRAZIES ARE
ASCENDANT, AND JOHN BOEHNER
WANTS TO BE CELEBRATED FOR
CALLING THEM CRAZY, FOR NOW,
FINALLY CALLING IT LIKE IT IS.
WELL, TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, AND
THAT BRINGS US UNFORTUNATELY TO
MATT GAETZ.
THE OTHER DAY THE CURRENT HOUSE
REPUBLICAN LEADER KEVIN McCARTHY
CALLED THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
GAETZ SERIOUS AND THREATENED TO
REMOVE HIM FROM A COMMITTEE IF
TRUE, WHICH ISN’T MUCH TO BE
SURE, BUT AT LEAST IT WOULD BE
AN EXPRESSION OF DISAPPROVAL.
BUT MATT GAETZ SHOULD HAVE BEEN
DEALT WITH LONG BEFORE THESE
LATEST HEADLINES.
GAETZ IS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF
ELECTED REPUBLICAN THAT JOHN
BOEHNER CLAIMS TO SO DISDAIN, A
MAN WHO HAS ALWAYS CARED MORE
ABOUT GETTING ON TELEVISION AND
INFLAMING THE BASE THAN GETTING
THINGS DONE, AND IT’S NOT LIKE
THERE HAVEN’T BEEN RED FLAGS.
GAETZ SHOWED NUDE PHOTOS OF
WOMEN HE SAID HE’D SLEPT WITH TO
LAWMAKERS IN THE FLORIDA HOUSE.
ABC NEWS REPORTS SOME WOMEN
REFERRED TO HIM AS CREEPY GAETZ,
AND HE WAS PART OF A GROUP OF
YOUNG MALE LAWMAKERS WHO CREATED
A GAME TO SCORE THEIR FEMALE
SEXUAL CONQUESTS.
THE DAILY BEAST REPORTED THAT
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN WAITING
FOR A MATT GAETZ SCANDAL TO
BREAK AND THAT MORE THAN HALF A
DOZEN LAWMAKERS HAVE SPOKEN TO
REPORTERS ABOUT HIS LOVE OF
ALCOHOL AND ILLEGAL DRUGS AS
WELL AS HIS PROCLIVITY FOR
YOUNGER WOMEN.
WE HAD MENTIONED THAT WHEN WE
HAD THE CO-AUTHOR OF THAT PIECE
LAST NIGHT BECAUSE WE WANTED TO
GIVE GAETZ THE BENEFIT OF THE
DOUBT.
NOW THERE’S NEW REPORTING FROM
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" AS WELL
CITING TEXT MESSAGES, RECEIPTS
AND INTERVIEWS THAT GAETZ
ALLEGEDLY TOOK THE MOOD ALTERING
DRUG ECSTASY WITH WOMEN THAT HE
ALLEGEDLY PAID FOR SEX.
IT SEEMS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE THAT
KEVIN McCARTHY DIDN’T HAVE SOME
INKLING THAT MATT GAETZ WAS A
DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN.
L
YET, McCARTHY DID NOTHING, JUST
LIKE JOHN BOEHNER DID NOTHING,
AND PAUL RYAN DID NOTHING.
AND SO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOT
TRUMPIER AND TRUMPIER, CRAZIER
AND CRAZIER.
THAT "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORT ON
GAETZ IS ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING.
IT ALLEGES THAT GAETZ, WHO’S
BEING INVESTIGATED FOR POTENTIAL
SEX TRAFFICKING INVOLVING A
17-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND ANOTHER
MAN, JOEL GREENBERG WERE
INVOLVED WITH MULTIPLE WOMEN WHO
WERE RECRUITED ONLINE FOR SEX
AND RECEIVED CASH PAYMENTS.
ONE OF THE SITES THEY ALLEGEDLY
USE IS CALLED "SEEKING
ARRANGEMENT" WHICH HELPFULLY
EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
A SUGAR BABY AND A SUGAR DADDY,
IF YOU NEEDED TO KNOW THAT.
GAETZ HAS DENIED SEX TRAFFICKING
AND ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH A
17-YEAR-OLD AND CALLS THE
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM, QUOTE,
TOTALLY FALSE.
HE ALSO SAYS NEVER PAID FOR SEX.
HIS OFFICE ISSUED A STATEMENT
READING, MATT GAETZ HAS NEVER
PAID FOR SEX.
MATT GAETZ REFUTES ALL THE
DISGUSTING ALLEGATIONS
COMPLETELY.
MATT GAETZ HAS NEVER BEEN ON ANY
SUCH WEBSITES WHATSOEVER.
MATT GAETZ CHERISHES THE