Watch Jake Tapper Grimace As He Beclowns Himself On Air Again

Posted • August 12, 2025: Tapper on Sunday interviewed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott about his state's midterm redistricting effort. The special redistricting session is currently on hold after several Democrat assemblypersons bravely turned and fled to Illinois and other deep blue states, rather than stay at home and do the jobs their constituents elected them to do. According to Abbott, they face $500-a-day fines and possible felony bribery charges (if they accept money to keep them on the run). Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrow is doing his bit. According to Burrow, absent Dems will have their office budgets slashed by 30%, won't receive their customary special session per diem, and will have to show up in person at the state capitol building to collect their paychecks. "While the Constitution forbids us from withholding pay, it does not dictate how we issue the pay," Burrows explained last week. No direct deposit for you, Brave Sir Robin.

But again, I digress. It's just that I get excited when I see elected officials acting like spoiled crybabies being treated as spoiled crybabies ought to be treated. So Tapper tried to trip Abbott up as a hypocrite for his threat to remove Democrats from office, but not a certain Republican. But the hypocrisy charge holds less water than my right hand on Scotch Night. Abbott explained in a press release last week that fleeing "amounts to an abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office. When the Governor calls a Special Session, our Constitution provides that the 'Legislature shall meet.' TEX. CONST. art. III, § 5 (emphasis added). It’s not optional. It’s a duty." So clearly there is at least some basis for Abbott's removal threat, regardless of whether he goes through with it, or whether it survives the inevitable court challenges. Tapper, however, went with the curious case of Texas Republican U.S. Congresswoman Kay Granger.

Abbott didn't flinch, gently reminding Tapper that a member of the United States Congress, curiously enough, is not the same thing as a member of the Texas House: “Well, I have the authority to apply the Texas Constitution to these members of the Texas House of Representatives. With regard to members of Congress, that's going to be up to the Congressional delegation and to the federal laws, of which the state would have no control over.” —— Watch Tapper's grimace at the 45-second mark, when he belatedly realizes just how flimsy his hypocrisy charge was. Seriously, for how many years now have I told you that Tapper isn't actually all that bright? Also — and I say this with complete disapproval of what was done here — her staff and family kept Granger's condition secret. Not only did Abbott have zero authority over her office, but only very few people seemed aware of her true condition. Unlike certain Joe Bidens I could mention. (…)

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