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Jim Jordan was imposed on us for egregiously partisan reasons. Now he’s afflicting the nation.
Posted Nov 20, 2019
Rep. Jim Jordan on Capitol Hill Oct. 11, 2019 AP

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, pictured in October on Capitol Hill. In his column today, Brent Larkin calls Jordan, whose gerrymandered congressional district reaches into the Cleveland area, an ironically appropriate choice to spearhead the GOP's Intelligence

Committee attack on impeachment inquiry witnesses,
By Brent Larkin, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND -- Of all the regions in all the states in all the country, Jim Jordan got dragged into ours.

There was no good reason to punish Greater Cleveland by making the person who’s now the second most contemptible human being in the entire U.S. government part of the region’s delegation to Congress. Worse yet, the betrayal was bipartisan.

When Ohio’s political and legislative leaders were drawing new congressional boundaries prior to the 2012 election, Democrats wanted a district that would protect U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge. . Republicans wanted districts that would elect the maximum number of GOP congressmen.

But to make it work required drawing a hideously gerrymandered district for the southwest Ohio congressman, one that meanders some 200 miles from near Dayton north into Lorain County near Cleveland.

And now it’s fitting that Republicans have given this seven-term sycophant a starring role in the televised House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump

The assignment comes as Jordan is being credibly accused by some of knowingly turning a blind eye to sexual abuse by a team doctor when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University from 1987 to 1994.

At least five people – four of them former wrestlers and one of them a longtime friend – have said Jordan had to have known former OSU team doctor Richard Strauss was on a sexual rampage that would include -- according to OSU -- 1,429 sexual assaults and 47 rapes of student rapes

That makes Jordan an ideal candidate to lead the defense of a malignant president who has bragged about physically abusing women and who has been accused by two dozen women of sexual assault or misconduct.

When Jordan slithers out from under his rock each morning, dons a shirt and tie - sans the jacket, lest he be mistaken for Joe McCarthy - his life’s work is to besmirch everything America stands for in service of Donald Trump

If it takes undermining yet another principle of democracy by condoning attacks on men and women who have devoted their lives in honorable service to this country, Jordan is always ready and willing.
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If it takes changing the Trump defense strategy on an almost daily basis because facts keep getting in the way, Jordan is the ideal bootlicker. Trump’s support is all that seems to matter to the man former House

Speaker John Boehner regularly referred to as "a legislative terrorist” – along with a whole bunch of other descriptions unfit for print.
Michael Gerson’s credentials to analyze Jordan are impeccable.

He is an evangelical Christian, lifelong Republican and onetime chief speechwriter to former President George W. Bush.Gerson showed his keen understanding of Jordan, describing him as “the Truly Trumpian Man – guided by bigotry, seized by conspiracy theories,

dismissive of facts and truth, indifferent to ethics, contemptuous of institutional norms and ruthlessly dedicated to the success of a demagogue.”Gerson applied the identical description to Stephen Miller, the White House resident white supremacist.

Everything about Jordan reeks of a man willing to cast aside common decency and fairness in service of a corrupt and cruel president.
He may be the most unfit man to ever represent part of Greater Cleveland in Congress.

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