Congressman Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, already has made quite a name for himself as an up-and-coming lunatic phenom in the order of a Louie Gohmert, a Steve King, or a Glenn Grothman. He's a dolt with a DUI arrest who's made his mark as the primary administration mouthpiece in the Congress.

He's not a member of the House Oversight Committee, which means he won't be sitting there on Wednesday when Michael Cohen comes by that committee to chat. This, Gaetz apparently reasoned, was an appropriate excuse to engage in a little witness intimidation and/or witness tampering on the electric Twitter machine anyway.

There is no bottom to the barrel.



Correction: An earlier version of this story said Matt Gaetz sat on the House Judiciary Committee.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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