Accountability
ABC’s Jonathan Karl claims top Republicans privately ridiculed Paul Gosar
After just two Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in a vote to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) on Wednesday, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reported that top Republicans had entirely different things to say about the congressman behind closed doors.
“The way Republicans would talk about Gosar privately is entirely different from what you saw ― the spectacle today of coming in and effectively defending him,” Karl told Anderson Cooper on CNN. “They say he’s lost it … I’ve had top Republicans tell me about Gosar specifically before this episode, you know, ‘He’s not all there.’”
Karl suggested more Republicans might have been willing to support the resolution had it not also stripped Gosar of his committee assignments. “I would have loved to have seen a vote that didn’t strip the committee assignments just to see how many Republicans would have refused to actually simply condemn his words,” Karl said. He said Republicans have “a real fear” of being challenged in party primary elections for speaking out.
Lindy Li, a Democratic political commentator, tweeted that “telling the truth behind closed doors is not enough.” She added, “No one cares what you say privately when you are too cowardly to tell the country the truth.”
The House ultimately passed the vote, mostly along party lines, with Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) joining Democrats to censure Gosar for posting an edited anime video that depicted him slashing the neck of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s photoshopped face, and then Gosar attacking President Joe Biden [Yahoo News].
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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