Jason Smith's Sanctimony Smells like Baloney!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

My sanctimonious congressman, Jason Smith of rural southeast Missouri, is out with his weekly newsletter, a  right-wing screed against all things Biden which the congressman's office posts late every Sunday evening.  Smith, the current chairman of the once-important House Ways and Means Committee, usually dedicates about a third to a half of his weekly diatribe to highlighting things that he has said on Fox News during the preceding week, and then discussing selected votes which he has taken during that same time period in terms that his constituents would find most appealing or enraging.

Smith's committee is one of several whose chief focus seems to have become the mad pursuit of any morsel that would weaken President Biden and, by comparison, make Trump look less criminal than he actually is.  This week Jason was railing against the fact that the House has been unable to pull Hunter Biden, the President's son, in to testify as a part of one of the House's many fishing expeditions.  But Smith, a lawyer, had to be careful in how he presented that story.

Hunter Biden has been subpoenaed to testify before a congressional committee, that is true, but what Smith and many other Republicans are trying to gloss over its the fact that Hunter Biden has volunteered to testify, but he wants to do so publicly, in a way that will not allow GOP House members, committee chairmen, and Fox News personalities to "interpret" what he said before the actual words that he speaks are released to the public.  Smith, and others like him, want to tell the American people how Hunter Biden acted and what he said, when we could be sitting in front of our televisions or computers and seeing it live for ourselves.  

Isn't the American public smart enough to watch a person testify live and then make up their own minds on whether he is being truthful or not, Jason?  Do we really need you to translate for us?

Jason Smith was opposed to the idea of Hunter Biden testifying out in the open, and he whined in this week's newsletter that the congressional subpoena was "not up for negotiation," which is politician-speak for "there's no way in hell we're going to be asking our questions out in the open and letting the public see how little we actually have in the way of evidence."  A fishing expedition must be held in private in case the desperate fishermen pull in something that would embarrass them.

So, certain Republicans in Congress are roaring that Hunter Biden must honor his subpoena and come to the Hill and testify - in closed hearings, and Hunter is saying that he will come and testify, but only before God and the whole world.  

And sanctimonious Jason Smith is saying that testifying before God and the whole world is not good enough.

Somebody is trying to bamboozle the American public, and it doesn't appear to be Hunter Biden!

Your sanctimony smells like baloney, Jason!