'Republicans Smear Me, Then Want to Grab Dinner'

[applegrove]

‘Republicans Smear Me, Then Want to Grab Dinner’

April 3, 2021 at 8:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 96 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/03/republicans-smear-me-then-want-to-grab-dinner/

"SNIP.....

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), writing at MSNBC:

“You may be surprised to know that most of the right-wing House members who spend endless hours on Fox News smearing Democrats actually want to be back-slapping buddies with us when the cameras are off. Some have defamed me on national television or by tweet and then, within a day, approached me in a hallway or on the House floor, smiling and wanting to chat me up. They seem surprised when I don’t want to share pleasantries; to them, they’re just ‘playing the game.'”

“Last week one representative told me we were due to grab dinner again, as we had before the insurrection. I was stunned. This guy tweets about me and slams me on Fox News at every opportunity.”

......SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. How psychopathic: do horrible things and then have it normalized.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. My standard reply would something akin to...

'fuck off, traitor!'

[Sibelius Fan]

3. I really wish Swalwell would name names.

Why not?

[aocommunalpunch]

4. They are not "right-wing House members".

They have names. Please stop this nonsense. I'm not surprised to discover this, but naming things has power.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. Their "Friends" Across The Aisle

They won't name any names. NEVER. Because they're a tightly knit Club.....or perhaps you prefer the term Cult.

The other side Lies and Cheats at every opportunity, and the decorum of Congress prevents our side from flat out calling them LIARS and FRAUDS.

Hopefully at least Representative Swalwell is not having anything further to do with these people who slam him, and then act like nothing happened.

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Wrong strategy. Go to dinner with them but wear a wire.

Get them talking about their hypocrisy and game playing.
Then expose it publicly.

[betsuni]

7. Reminds me of this from "What Happened":

"Congressman Ryan Zinke, soon to be Trump's Interior Secretary, brought his wife over to say hello. This was somewhat surprising, considering that in 2014 he had called me the 'Antichrist.' Maybe he'd forgotten, because he didn't come equipped with any garlic or wooden stakes, or whatever one uses to ward off the Antichrist. But I hadn't forgotten. 'You know, Congressman,' I said, 'I'm not actually the Antichrist.' He was taken aback and mumbled something about not having meant it. One thing I've learned over the years is how easy it is for some people to say horrible things about me when I'm not around, but how hard it is for them to look me in the eye and say it to my face."