Dan Crenshaw Rips ‘Fake Nobility’ of Fellow House GOP Members — and Jim Jordan — Pledging to ‘Get the Job Done’
Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw was not impressed by Jim Jordan’s Friday morning statement and went so far as to mock what he saw as “fake nobility.”
Jordan is set to hold a third vote to become Speaker of the House after two failed bids and addressed assembled media during an 8 AM press event in which he signaled his readiness to grind out a vote like Kevin McCarthy did with his 15 total votes. Oh, and Jordan also refused to dismiss baseless allegations of a stolen 2020 election.
Crenshaw appeared on Fox News Friday morning and said Jordan’s future congressional votes to become speaker were “not going to get better,” even though he pledged to vote for him because he is a “stickler for the process.”
“What I’m seeing against these members and their families are the things being said by right-wingers; that’s different,” Crenshaw continued, speaking of reported death threats some Republican members of Congress and their families have received by unknown individuals in support of Jordan.
“If Jim Jordan’s allies went down this path, he wouldn’t become speaker,” Crenshaw added. “They would entrench opposition. That’s exactly what’s happened. So they’re not moving and that’s, that’s the facts as they are right now.”
After reiterating his support for a Jordan vote, he then blasted the “fake nobility” of his fellow congressional Republican caucus members who “come on Fox” and promise to “get the job done.”
But the facts aren’t changing. People should understand. The facts aren’t changing. Kind of push us into the weekend and force votes and this sort of this kind of fake nobility of getting the job done that that’s not going to work and it’s going to backfire. I want people to understand, too. Sitting around a room up here arguing about who’s the most popular that’s not working for the American people. I don’t like it when people come on Fox and say that’s we’ve got to get the work done. That’s not work. I want to remind my fellow legislators that work up here is, your committee works. It’s legislating. It’s writing bills. And so what you need is somebody in the chair who can bring bills to the floor. That’s the actual work for the American people. Too many forgotten. So we do need to get back to work, but not the kind of work some of these folks are saying. This is one of the reasons I was in favor of that temporary empowerment. Jim Jordan was in favor of that because you need someone to bring bills to the floor. We need a reset. Stop yelling at each other for a little while and and see who can consolidate some support. It doesn’t have to be this, this, this, this hair on fire type of conversation, which is what we’re engaging in at the moment. The real work is the legislation, and there’s no reason why we can’t keep doing that.
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