Ben Meiselas: Republican CROSS EXAM of Dem Govs BACKFIRES in HEARING

"MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the disastrous Republican cross examination  of Democratic Governors they subpoenaed to a hearing to distract from their disastrous budget bill." 

Source:Meidas Touch with a look at U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) & Governor Tim (please don't run for reelection) Walz (Democrat, Minnesota)

From the Meidas Touch

Just to clean up the record as far as what Ben Meiselas said and add to the record as far as what he left out, first and then I'll get into what I really want to talk about here. And hopefully I won't put too many people in a coma from reading what I have to say, first. (Ha, ha)

So these Democratic governors (Kathy Hochul, J.B. Pritzker, Tim Walz) were all in front of the House Governor Reform and Oversight Committee. All you got from Ben Meiselas was that they were testifying in front of "members of Congress", or "Congress members". But "member of Congress" or "Congress member", is a very broad term. You know, 535 members of Congress between the House and Senate and maybe 45 Congressional committees between both chambers. 

The Left likes to talk about all the time about how dumb MAGA members are when it comes to government, but if you listened to how leftists talked about our government, you would think we were in United Kingdom, India... some country that has a unicameral legislature, where the members of Congress or Parliament, only come from 1 chamber.

I mean, I learned in junior high school, if not before that, because my parents have always been pretty political, that the United States has always had a bicameral Congress, with a House of Representatives and Senate. And not only that, the Senate has always been the upper chamber. Which is 1 of the reasons why the Senate is a much harder place to get elected to, especially if it's a big, swing state, like Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's a lot harder than the House, where in most cases you probably just have to win your party's primary, to get elected to the U.S. House. But the Left talks like they don't seem to understand our form of government, while lecturing everyone else about how stupid MAGA is.

And if anyone is still awake after reading my little social studies lecture, I'll tell you what I really think about this House Oversight Committee hearing today. If not, I hope this is the best sleep that you've gotten in a long time. (Ha, ha)

So I again, talking about my generation: if you remember the 1990s, you remember the daytime, trash talk TV genre, which were all supposed daytime, syndicated talk shows. The Jerry Springer's, the Jenny Jones's, even Geraldo Rivera who was more serious than the others, but he would have segments and guests like that. 

So the show would bring on a bunch people, none of them were experts on anything, other than how to look and sound pissed off and piss other people off and they would be up there to talk about their problems and problems they're having with other people, on live, national TV. It was sort of like daytime soap opera, but in real life, where the acting was better and the shows were funnier. That's what a House MAGA committee hearing for me is... at least when the "witnesses" (who really just there for MAGA verbal target practice) are Democrats. 

So when you are a member of 1 of these Congressional committees and you are literally asking your own witness: "Are you laughing at me?" you know you are not making your point. Unless you are just there to gin up some social media views for yourself with your MAGA audience. 

I'm sure Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (MAGA, Georgia) wanted her "question time" to remembered as her telling Governor Kathy Hochul (Democrat, New York) how horrible of a person that she thinks she is. But when you interrupt yourself, to ask your own damn witness: "Are you laughing at me?" that's not the impression that you want to leave even with your own audience, or the broader audience. 

And the Nancy Mace thing: 

@Representative Nancy Mace: to Gov. Tim Walz aggressively grill Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "You guys are the party of violence and you're the party erasing women. You don't respect us. You' don't respect us. You're a bigot. You're a misogynist. You're a sexist."

@Kire Schneider: Nancy Mace is the party of 1... herself.

From C-SPAN

So again, MAGA is not in the business of Congressional oversight, or government oversight in general. When they do these hearings, they simply want their own base and constituents to know for damn sure, how much they hate Democrats. Not to inform anyone about what government is doing with their tax dollars, by asking real questions and getting real documents from government agencies, or from state officials, like governors. That's all we saw today. But they are very good at political "reality TV"... at least as far as entertaining the broader audience, including their own witnesses. 

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