Madison Cawthorn flips his lid – or blows the lid

Has Madison Cawthorn flipped his lid? Or has he really blown the lid off the cesspool that the United States Congress has become?

What did Madison Cawthorn say?

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.-11th) gave an interview to podcaster John Lovell last week and said some explosive things. Mr. Lovell first wanted his take on a Netflix movie, House of Cards, that portrays a very seamy Washington, D.C.

Cawthorn said the movie portrayed the city, and its political movers and shakers, correctly!

Q. How much, in your opinion, because you’re — you’ve been behind the veil. Is this a fictitious show, or is this more closer to, like, a documentary? Is it that bad?

A. I heard a former president that we had in the 90s was asked the question about this. And he gave an answer that I thought was so true. And he said the only thing that’s not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly.

Who is that former President? Bill Clinton, of course. Bill

I did not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With that woman.

Clinton.

Not only that, but Cawthorn quoted lead actor Kevin Spacey as saying he had it from Bill Clinton directly.

Sexual get togethers? Drug abuse? WTF?

That’s bad enough. But then Madison Cawthorn said the thing that has set official Washington on its ear:

Aside from that, the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean it, being kind of a young guy in Washington — with the average age of probably 60 or 70 — and I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I’ve looked up to through my life. I’ve always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of a sudden you get invited to like, well, “hey we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes. You should come.”

Or the fact there’s some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you.

For those who do not know, a “key bump” is a tiny amount of powdered drug that someone pours out onto a key, then snuffs up his nose.

And this:

If you’re about to speak out against something they don’t want you to, they’ll come out and say, “We’re about to drop this story of when 17 years ago you did X, Y, and Z, and you don’t want us to drop that story do you, so we’re going to bully you back into this position.”

Don’t just take our word for it. Play the podcast.

Reaction to Madison Cawthorn, swift and …

This story first came to CNAV’s attention yesterday. Today all of official Washington is buzzing like a nest of angry hornets. He has “upset” many House Republicans, including Leader Kevin McCarthy, who promises to “talk” to him. Rep. Scott Perry, leader of the Freedom Caucus, wants Madison Cawthorn to name names. Which could merely mean, put up or shut up. If you can believe Politico, his remarks stirred the pot to sloshing at yesterday’s Freedom Caucus meeting.

But after Jack Hadfield tweeted the podcast himself,

Jack Posobiec reminded everybody that Jake Tapper once wrote a book about this kind of thing.

In other words, you’re looking at hypocrisy with a capital H. If somebody makes such an allegation in public, and what they allege would make you angry if it were true, you don’t just say you want to “talk” about it. You say in reply that this is serious business, and you’d be happier if he asked for an investigation. And if you’re as powerful as the Minority Leader, you would call for one.

Is it true?

Let’s think about this. How does someone make a movie like House of Cards, that paints Washington as one big drug-laced sex party? If that’s false, why is the movie such a hit? Did Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey say what Madison Cawthorn quotes them as saying, or not?

In fact, it wouldn’t be the first time someone made a movie about official Washington that made people angry. Let’s talk about Mister Smith Goes to Washington from 1939, with Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. When that had a “command premiere” before Congress, half the members walked out. Why? Maybe because they knew that Frank Capra, who directed, had nailed them all to the wall, dead to rights. And this was only about the horse trading for pork that goes on in Congress. Pork? Outright graft! The only thing inaccurate about that film, is Claude Rains trying to shoot himself in the Senate cloakroom. And then rushing into the Senate chamber, screaming,

Expel me, not him! Everything he has said is true!

Caucus Dues – an even bigger scandal

Then let’s talk about something Madison Cawthorn didn’t talk about: Caucus Dues. Did you know that every Senator and every Representative has to pay a due to their respective caucus? Care to guess the amount? As much as a member’s annual salary! How do they afford Caucus Dues? By cozying up to lobbyists – like Edward Arnold’s character, James Taylor, in Mister Smith. Don’t take our word for it; ask the John Birch Society. And now we know what else those lobbyists pay for, don’t we?

CNAV has said before that Congress is an unproductive career, and that’s why! And it goes on at State level, too – the Caucus Dues, certainly. We don’t know – yet – about the rest of it. CNAV has also talked about one gracious lady in Virginia who won’t play: Senator Amanda F. Chase of western Chesterfield County. She should run for the United States Senate, the next time Virginia has a U.S. Senate race to run.

He’s telling the truth!

So what do we have before us today? Those guys get enough from their lobbyist keepers, to afford to fill their houses with prostitutes as party favors! (Or is it their female office help? Disgusting, either way.) And not only that, to buy cocaine, one of the most expensive drugs out there. At least all that Jefferson Smith had to contend with, was a senior Senator’s daughter throwing herself at him to keep him off the Senate floor at a critical moment. And then coming to find out that a dirty crook tells that same senior Senator what to do.

Taylor: Well, you take the boys here – or Joe Paine. They’re doing all right – they don’t have to worry about being re-elected, or anything else. They’re smart. They take my advice.

Smith: You mean you tell these men and Senator Paine what to do?

T: Why, yes! Joe Paine has been taking my advice for the past twenty years.

S [growls]: You’re a liar.

Well, the fictitious Jefferson Smith nailed it – and so has Madison Cawthorn. He just revealed that the more Washington changes, the more it stays the same – but even dirtier. And far from brushing him off, we should listen.