It’s been six months since publishing “Liar, Liar, Pants of Fire!”. Today the same Jim Jordan who couldn’t keep his story straight is a candidate to succeed ousted Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. If elected he will become third in the line of succession to become the President of the United States.

Body language: pants on fire

Mr. Jordan’s conflicting answers to the repeated question whether and when he talked with the president on Jan. 6, 2021 are featured in this video. Watch the body language that accompanies his rapid-fire responses to the question of whether and when he had spoken to the President on January 6.

The Jim Jordan we see in this video stammered, and his stammering was accompanied by something I found more telling — his body language. He was hitching his pants up.

Promoting a radical political agenda

New York City “has lost its way when it comes to fighting crime and upholding the law. Here in Manhattan, the scales of Justice are weighted down by politics. For the district attorney justice isn’t blind — it’s about advancing opportunities to promote a political agenda — a radical political agenda.”

Rep. Jim Jordan, Chair of US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee

Getting it right while getting it wrong

The radical political agenda was not Br. Bragg’s. It was his own. Jim Jordan is campaigning to succeed the only Speaker in American history to be ousted from office. If elected, Speaker Jordan will be the first yet-to-be-indicted Jan. 6 co-conspirator who couldn’t remember whether he spoke with the President the morning of January 6. Until he suddenly remembered.

Gordon C. Stewart, Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness (2017 Wipf and Stock), 49 brief (2-4 pages) commentaries on faith and life; Brooklyn Park, MN, April 28, 2023.