Flotsam and Jetsam - Biden's Secret Papers Problems, House Passes Rules

Well, now, isn't that amusing. It turns out then Vice President Biden scooped up a few top secret documents on his way out of the Vice President's residence at the end of the Obama administration, along with some random documents probably belonging to the government as well, and they ended up mixed with non-secret documents in the think tank he started. Woops! Send out the FBI SWAT team! MSN cites ABC, DOJ reviewing as Biden lawyer says classified docs found in his old office. Sauron's Eye, U.S. attorney reviewing documents marked classified from Joe Biden's vice presidency found at Biden think tank. On the nth page of today's WaPoo, Justice Dept. reviewing classified documents found in Biden’s post-VP office.    Across da pond at Da Mail, 'When is the FBI going to raid the White House?': Trump leads Republican rage as he demands action after ten classified documents were found at Biden's think tank from his time as VP - when he did NOT have power to declassify documents. John Sexton at Haut Hare, FBI, US Attorney investigating how top secret documents from Biden's time as VP were recently found in his think tank office. Spencer Brown at Town Hall, DOJ Investigating Classified Documents Biden Kept After Leaving VP Office. 'Bonchie' at Red State, NEW: Classified Documents Found in Joe Biden's Old Office, DOJ Investigating. ADN America, President Biden was in possession of classified documents, but returned them to National Archives says lawyer. At Aces Quick Hits, The DOJ is preparing to cover up -- or as they call it, "investigate" -- reports of classified documents that have been at the Biden Center from his VP years.  Sundance at CTH is disgusted, As Vice President Joe Biden Took Classified Documents from White House to Private Office Storage in Washington DC.  "Is the publicity through CBS, a known friendly narrative engineering firm for the interests of the Democrat apparatus, a specifically timed release against the backdrop of a DOJ decision not to prosecute President Trump for similar issues?  Something to consider."  It's not an earth shattering crime; I expect this kind of stuff gets swept up in the move out of office all time, but he needs to be treated just like Trump. Raid his Delaware house, and all the ancillary businesses he's involved with just to make sure. 

Biden on classified material at Mar-a-Lago: "How [could] anyone ... be that irresponsible?" pic.twitter.com/IcEePiXJ2y

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 9, 2023

On their first day back after electing Kevin McCarthy speaker, House GOP passes McCarthy deal on rules, 220-213, whines the NYT, cited at Haut Hare. Capt. Ed comments "Seems as though the new House majority is hanging together rather well, rather than hanging separately." Spencer Brown again, Some Republicans Aren't Supporting the House Rules Package. Here's Why. Sundance, Republican House Rules Package Passes, All Republicans Vote Support Except Two Texans "Representative Tony Gonzales voted against it, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, did not vote." It does look like Crenshaw is setting himself of the be the Houses Mitt Romney. Fox, What's in it: House GOP rules package aims to curb trillions in yearly heaps of new debt. "Republicans say federal overspending has led to inflation."

At ET, Here Are the 7 Conservative Bills Guaranteed a House Vote After Speakership Fight. John Solomon at JTN, McCarthy deal creates special investigative panels for COVID, weaponization of FBI. Ace, The Deal The Freedom Caucus Struck Will Guarantee Two Investigative Panels, One on the "Weaponization of Federal Law Enforcement," the Other On the Origins of COVID, "A lot of the weakling fake Republicans screamed and screamed that someone was daring to challenge the establishment." At PM, Jim Jordan to chair 'Weaponization of Government' Select Committee. "This investigative panel will demand emails and correspondence between the Biden administration and big tech companies, and follows the massive revelations that came to light through the recent release of the Twitter Files." Sundance, finds an Interesting Angle – New York Times, Which Means FBI and DOJ, Worried the New House Subcommittee on Fed Weaponization May Review Special Counsel Activity. Andy McCarthy at NYPo, Liberal media are trying to protect the feds from the much-needed House weaponization committee. Well, they have been aiding and abetting. 

 Haut Hare, McCarthy confirms: Schiff, Swalwell, Omar off of Intel, Foreign Affairs committees. At WaEx, WATCH: Ilhan Omar reacts to Kevin McCarthy's plan to pull her from committees. Fox, Rep. Ilhan Omar calls McCarthy speakership agreement a 'deal with far right insurrectionists,' At WaEx, Mark Green beats Dan Crenshaw in race to chair Homeland Security Committee. From Da Wire, Dan Crenshaw Walks Back ‘Terrorist’ Comment Against GOP House Members. Da Caller reports Chip Roy Says He Wasn’t Promised Anything After Vote Flip: ‘This Isn’t About… A Spot On A Committee.’ and GOP Rep Walks Back Promise To Step Down From Top Committee After House Floor Fight.

Fox claims House votes to rescind billions in funding to the IRS in first major majority action with McCarthy as speaker "Legislation will roll back billions in funding approved in Inflation Reduction Act for IRS" But how does it get past the Senate?  At Town Hall, Cutie Pavlich rhetorically questions How Many Democrats Voted to Continue IRS Harassment? All of them, of course.

At Ca Caller, David Bosse thinks McCarthy’s Battle For The Speakership Proved One Thing — Our Democracy Is Alive And Well, but NYPo's Michael Goodwin believes Congress dithered while US withered and LAT Don McManus says The real winner from the House fight? Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s indispensable man. The graveyards are full of them. At ET, Ben Sasse Officially Leaves US Senate. See?

At Mediaite, ‘PRIMARY THEM ALL!!!’ Trump Calls for All 18 Republican Senators Who Voted for Omnibus Spending Bill to Be Run Out of Office. But the wall are closing in, according to WaPoo, Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump, has taken on seemingly untouchable targets. "The Fulton County district attorney’s aggressive pursuit of Trump and his allies could soon lead to criminal charges". WABE, Georgia special grand jury finishes probe of Trump, 2020 election. 

 Capt. Ed at Haut Hare, WaPo: You know that big gov't-media freakout over "disinformation"? Yeah ... never mind. Ace,  Shock: NYU Study Finds Russian Trolls Had Little to No Impact on Trump's 2016 Election.  "Where do we go to get our last six years back?"

Your wife framed her opponent and sabotaged his transition into power. https://t.co/BLKgzAhiBm

— thebradfordfile (@thebradfordfile) January 9, 2023

Victory Girls note how White House Visitors Social Security Numbers Found In Jan 6 Files. Madeleine Hubbard at JTN hears Ashli Babbitt's mother says she was 'arrested aggressively' while laying flowers for daughter "Witthoeft and her group "were not allowed to" walk on the sidewalk because they were carrying "American flags," she said." Unauthorized use of the American flag in the Washington D.C. At PM, Donald Trump SLAMS arrest of Ashli Babbitt's mother. "Speaking at an event at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening, Donald Trump slammed the Biden regime over the arrest of Ashli Babbitt's mother."

At the World Trib, Notorious election worker in Georgia awarded Presidential Citizen’s Medal at White House.

Freeman and her daughter “were seen on the surveillance video pulling boxes filled with ballots out from under a table at State Farm Arena after supervisors had told poll workers they had quit for the night,” Debra Heine reported for American Greatness on Friday.

“After Freeman, Moss and another election worker retrieved the ballot boxes from underneath the table, the video shows Freeman and Moss scanning and rescanning stacks of ballots into an election computer.”

Freeman was employed by the temporary agency Happy Faces Personnel Group, which is a contractor to the Fulton County, Georgia Elections absentee ballot department, and linked to Stacy Abrams.

At the Center Square Ill, More than 30,700 mail-in ballots in Illinois for November election were rejected. Delusions of grandeur, JTN reports Maryland GOP Gov. Hogan holding focus groups amid presidential campaign rumors "The Republican has further indicated that his opposition to Trump was no longer a liability amid falling support for his candidacy." NYPo reports Charges dropped against man who hurled White Claw at Ted Cruz. Apologized profusely and claimed all he wanted was Ted to chug the White Claw. Really!  Jazz Shaw at Haut Hair reports on the Crisis pregnancy center hires PIs to do the work the FBI won't.

At Fox, Randi Weingarten ripped for tweet admitting 'remote education didn't work': 'Water is wet'. At Twitchy, Corey DeAngelis OWNS Randi Weingarten in heated back and forth after she lies AGAIN about closing schools. Denies pushing lockdowns and remote "learning".

We have a new wave of "Twitter Files" appearing, regarding the Twitter's assistance in the government censoring unwanted WuFlu discussions. PM, Twitter was pressured by Pfizer to suppress posts questioning Covid vax efficacy: Twitter Files. Twitchy, Elon Musk says Alex Berenson’s #TwitterFiles drop proves ‘some conspiracies are actually true’

1/ My first #TwitterFiles report: how @scottgottliebmd - a top Pfizer board member - used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF @US_FDA!

Thanks @elonmusk for opening these files.https://t.co/UbHlmtjELP

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) January 9, 2023

Reason wonders Did 'Every Conspiracy Theory' About Twitter Turn Out To Be True? "The internal company documents offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the federal agencies distorted the public debate on one of the world's largest social media platforms." At the Conservative Brief, Federal Appeals Court Blocks Jen Psaki From Testifying in Big Tech Censorship Case. Ace, Twitter Files: Adam Schiff Pressured Twitter to Censor New York Post Reporter Paul Sperry . . . "David French's "the government isn't censoring, it's just persuading" claim is looking more corrupt and more filthy by the day." Jim Treacher, Biden Tried to Silence Tucker Carlson on Facebook. "Remember, we wouldn’t know any of this stuff if Elon Musk hadn’t dropped $44 billion to buy Twitter. He opened the floodgates, and now all of this sewage is spilling out. How many other social media companies have been censoring conservatives like this? I assume the answer is: All of them." At Ace's Morning Rant, You Tube Blocks Heartland Institute’s “Climate Realism” Live Stream…Because of January 6?. At WUWT, Do Google Search Options Conceal Climate Data that is Contrary to Government Alarmists Propaganda? Absolutely.