Raskin says it’s ‘worth investigating’ whether House members were drinking in hearing room

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1. Wait, these people *aren’t* drinking?

2. Republicans would be fired from any other workplace for behaving the way they are now. I’d be more surprised to learn someone wasn’t drinking.

3. There will likely be no investigation because the drinking was done by allegedly moral Republicans.

4. Just be easier to do mandatory drug and alcohol tests each week.

5. Conservative extremism and alcoholism go together like fecal smearing insurrection and christian nationalism. Just think back to McCarthy and his hearings

6. I doubt alcohol played much into it. These idiots always act like idiots. They continue to push the envelope on what they can get away with. This was just that. Seeing how far things can get pushed. The goal of the GOP is to create disfunction within the government. This was years in the making when we impose no actual rules on congress and let them do whatever they want until they are in jail then we might kick them out.. maybe but only if it dosnt hurt the margin to lose the majority. Our government is a joke

7. And if that happens , the people drinking will immediately play the “Alcoholism is a disease and it’s not my fault!” victim card.

   No thanks.

8. Are we counting the kool-aid?

9. Is it a crime?

10. The press corps used to say that John Boehner reeked of alcohol at the end of every day.

11. Many of the Republican members in that hearing were in NYC that morning to be Trump’s surrogates in violating his gag order by attacking the judge’s family, the jury, and our system of laws in general.

    If I’d debased myself like that, I sure would have been tempted to throw back a few in the airport lounge before my flight back to DC.

12. There is a long history of excessive drinking by members of Congress, even during Prohibition:

    https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/12/04/man-green-hat-congress-bootlegger-during-prohibition

    I seriously doubt that the House Ethics Committee will do anything useful about this kind of behavior, especially by Republicans.

13. I’m glad AOC was so mature!

14. They were drinking on the way back from their Trump trial clown show appearance.

15. Christ. How’d we get here?

16. If Dems get the House, they need non stop investigations into the MAGA Fascists to find out why they are so inclined to protect the tangerine traitor.

    & it all needs to be public.

    They won’t, but they need to.

17. Whether they were drinking or got contact drunk from standing too close to Ronny Jackson, it’s worth investigating.