Ooh, I'm so scared:
How many times have we heard this kind of thing from Republicans? And how many times has it mattered? Has any attempt to make nice with them ever been reciprocated in any way?
Republican mendacity on the subject of congressional investigations is beyond belief. They will hold months and months of investigations over anything, no matter how trivial—remember the Clinton Christmas card list? the IRS nonsense? Solyndra?—but when the shoe is on the other foot they recoil in horror that Democrats would do such a thing to them.
Back in January, all of these folks agreed that the 1/6 insurrection was appalling. Of course Congress should investigate an attack on Congress. But then time went by and they decided that the partisan inconvenience of making Donald Trump look bad far outweighed the national interest in figuring out who was responsible for the attack. Quelle surprise.
We hit them with Watergate & Iran-Contra -- really, they get caught redhanded -- & they respond with "Bill Climpton got a blowie". They slander triple-amputee Vietnam veteran Max Cleland as the no. 3 in al-Qaeda & disparage John Kerry's Purple Heart as an owie, gleefully, then recoil when Obama comes to their Eastern Shore retreat (at their invitation) & skewers their policy prescriptions & proscriptions. They have Shrillary testify for 11 & a half hours over Benghazi, then nominate a credibly accused Kremlin asset to run against her.
If you didn't believe in the asymmetry of the GQP & Democrat Party, you are blind.
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Sometimes don't know what to think of you, but thank you for this.
Not the least surprising that they keep doing it, but why do they keep getting away with it? That's why they keep doing it!
They keep getting away with it....
but why do they keep getting away with it?
Some of it is lazy MSM both-siderism. A lot of it is because US elites value dying with a nine percent higher net worth than they value democracy. But most of it, I'd say, is because, at least for the time being, Republicans are generally guaranteed an absolute minimum floor of something like 45-47% of the two party vote. They simply have no political incentive to jettison treason and lunacy.
Yep. And until that 47% or so decide that they love their country more than they hate the libs, not much will change. Except that next time, the Trumpist GOP doesn't plan on having any resisters in its ranks to prevent a coup.
Lamestream media, please.
It's bad enough that the Republicans killed irony, now they have to mutilate the body....
Irony's corpse is dissolving in an acid bath in Steve Bannon's timeshare.
Bannon's ties to the Russian Central Bank and the remnants of the House of Dr Rothschild which run it, should be investigated. His track record with Zionism and faux-"white nationalism" run by Zionist organization's would prove his real goal is global plutocracy. Like most Republican con men, hucksters of the elite.
FWIW, I am digging to find who Kyle Rittenhouse's true father is. Something tells me Mrs had a affair with a Mexican illegal. Which being in Wisconsin, wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Nope.
Kyle is pure unadulterated FIB.
Nope. He ain't
Rumors have been blaring about it in Wisconsin for years about his mother and a illegal "Chico".
Do you even know what a FIB is?
Republicans are protecting the people who sacked the US capitol.
In many cases, they are those people: Boebert, Taylor-Greene, Haw-Haw, Eagle's Nest, Gosar, Brooks, Andy Harris...
Everyone gives constituents tours of the Capitol complex, escape routes, etc.
😉
They don't just cheat at elections; they cheat at escape rooms.
“but when the shoe is on the other foot“
Not even close.
Democrats are investigating the attempted violent overthrow of the gov’t.
Republicans were investigating made up out of thin air Rush Limbaugh bullshit.
Excuse me: Rush Limbaugh is dead. It's now the Buck n' Clay's Whole Cloth Bullshit & Beard Getting It Done White Power Hour.
White power??? More like ZOG power. Boebart's another one that ain't "pure". L2 with a southeastern Eurasia Slavic bent I would suspect.
( ( ( KKKlay Travis ) ) ) is a lawyer...
Wow. Spades is like an idiot savant for ethnic and racial bigotry.
Reality is reality. You play to the con. Semitic culture, not IndoEuropean culture drives them.
He's like a flat-Earther who thinks Y2K actually happened and everyone else is covering it up.
Why do you think we are getting a Matrix relaunch for Christmas?
To help the color blind sort themselves
into caverns deep underground where no one will ever know they're there?
Please don't feed the troll. It leaves its droppings to get attention.
Shooter has been here for years.
He's the Barney Grumble of CalPundit/PoliticalAnimal/Jabberwocking.
I ususally don't bother to respond to him until the Sun is over the yardarm, at which point he's three sheets to the breeze and it's just an exercise for amusement's sake.
Damn, we're a rich country! Rich enough to support the likes of Shootie, at least.
Wonder if it's SSDI, VA disability, parental allowance, or golddug wife.
Regardless, it's alcohol-fueled for sure. Nothing worse than a drunk Nazi.
Juvenilia and ADHD.
If the R's take over the house, prepare yourself for multiple hearings about the Afghanistan pullout for two years leading up to the 2024 election.
and I would ignore all hearings. You don't get it, do you??
The hearings wouldn't be for you or me.
Which will be a total yawner and won't affect the election one iota.
Geez, Solyndra... A company that developed their cell almost wothinn buget, almost within time, and hit their price target....
...But the US had only made loans, and only for new technology, not actual factories, while China just gave grants to actual factories and so the per-cell rpice dropped below Solyndra's target.
Republicans, who whine about giveaways, and whine about buying from China, then whined that Solyndra must have been a scam because clearly they would have predicted the global solar market flooded with cheap polysilicon.
Ugh. If Republicans didn't have disingenuous arguments, they'd have none at all.
I’m not sure they are talking about congressional hearings anymore.
https://www.thebulwark.com/prepare-for-the-shock-troops/
“When can we use the guns?” The question hung in the air just long enough for some in the crowd to begin cheering. “That’s not a joke,” the man added. ”How many elections are they gonna steal before we kill these people?”
These are all the tools in the Republican toolbox. Every dictator in every police state knows them. Violence, intimidation, harassment, imprisonment, death squads. It can’t happen here?
“Of course Congress should investigate an attack on Congress.”
Should they? Does congress investigate mass shootings? The attack was a crime. The justice system has arrested hundreds and is busy trying them. Why aren’t they (or are they?) investigating Bannon, Meadows, Trump, etc.? Why isn’t there a federal grand jury investigating the conspiracy? Treason, sedition, conspiracy to commit all of the above?
I guess the Capitol police screw ups are fodder for a congressional investigation but this is still not a criminal proceeding. It’s a fact finding mission. Are they going to pass a law making it a federal crime to organize an attack on the Capitol? Apparently this is all legal. And apparently the justice department isn’t interested in getting to the root of the attempt. These people ran the equivalent of a terrorist training camp. 18 US Code 2339A.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A
Providing material support to terrorists. I know… free speech! 😂
My ass.
The criminal justice system basically does not work when there are major political implications and partisanship is high. Everyone is entitled to a jury trial for a felony and the presumption is that people o a jury will be objective, but people are not objective when things get highly partisan. And Republicans have been working for over 50 years to increase partisanship mainly on the basis of racism. Chances of getting a jury that would convict Trump or other higher-ups is small.
And if Trump were actually convicted would it diminish his popularity or that of his movement (which is basically the Republican party now)? What happened to Hitler when he was convicted of actual participation of the insurrection in Munich?
Yes, I agree. That’s why we can’t hold republicans actually accountable. That reinforces the idea that political violence is, well, a tolerable outcome. So now that the genie is out of the bottle, we’re probably going to see an escalation of violence in the future.
Someday, a political assassination inspired by all this bile will be excused. We’ve had hints of this already. The militants are waiting for a signal and the Presidential pardon which will come with it.
How many elections do they think the Democrat Party has stolen?
Was Florida 2000 a DNC op at the direction of known Democrat stalwarts Kitty Harris & JEB!? Was Leslie Mc Crae Dowless in the North Carolina 9th a legacy Democrat of the Ur-Racist North Carolina Democrat Party? Was Norm Coleman litigating Al Franken's narrow Minnesota win to keep the Land of 10,000 Lakes from falling to GQP control?
I don’t think any have been stolen. Didn’t mean for that post to imply that I did. I was just making the point that Republicans are going to do far more than subpoena a few of Biden’s staff to testify. They are going to ruin people.
As another example, You need to get religion… or else.
“Meanwhile, retired general Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to the president declared: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”
“The Republican Party — populated with cranks, crooks, clowns, bigots, and deranged conspiracy theorists — has spent five years alienating women, minorities, and young voters.”
The party — and its entire leadership from the grassroots to Congress — remains in thrall to a disgraced, defeated, one-term president, who is reduced to issuing increasingly crazed screeds from his exile in Mar-a-Lago. Every day we learn more about Republican complicity in the events of Jan. 6 and their attempts to whitewash an attempted coup.
The GOP is the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz and Louie Gohmert.
And yet….
The GOP has opened a massive lead in the polls —and appears poised to win landslide victories in the mid-terms next year.
So they have much more in mind than just a few hearings.
I wonder why the republicans would even attempt this.
Indictments require a majority of a grand jury do they not? (in most cases)
Just how many grand juries are the republicans going to convene?
How many felony charges will they cook up that won't go any further?
I know that politicians are great at avoiding any implication that they are wrong about anything, but THIS is just embarrassing as all get out
The problem is that they know *exactly* who was responsible for January 6: Donald J. Trump and his circle of psychopathic wannabe fascist toadies, including a number of GOP Congresspeople.
Of course they don't want this scrutinized, any more than the Nazis wanted to find out who really set the Reichstag fire.
BROOKS WAS HERE.
Soon they will decide they are all good with the attention and own responsibility for the act. Common sense don’t you know. And they won’t care because they know it’s a freebie. They will make it clear that next time they will succeed.
I have not heard one Democrat call the Republicans who both called for the rejection of the election certification and fled the rioters on Jan 6 yellow bellied cowards. Cruz, Hawkins, the Tea Party House Republicans supported the protesters but ran away from them like scared children when the rioters entered Congress. Had any of these Republicans stood up to the protesters in their chambers of Congress, including Mike Pence, they would be the leading Republican presidential candidates in 2024. Democrats should continuously point out to the public these Republicans are cowards who ran from the adversity they created.
Hawley must be wimpified from watching too much porn.
HawkinsHawleyPeople like that confuse adrenaline with thought, and think that if a thing isn't giving them a frenzy it's not doing anything, which at the same time leaves them easily frightened, which they overreact to with violent aggression, as soon as they calm down enough to start shouting again.
Are the people who entered the Capital complete idiots, YES! Am I surprised that Republicans take a partisan perspective on these events, OF COURSE NOT!
But the Democrat Party is just as bad, because wokeness.
Andy Breitbart, at 43 at least, looked to be in better shape than Steve Bannon does now, yet died while walking his dog, "from a heart attack".
I know they say that evil, as with Hank Kissinger, has longevity, but seriously, whereas Kissinger is a rolypoly guy but with generally normative diet, Bannon lives on bathtub gin, bathtub crank, & the hair extensions of the strippers currently dissolving in his bathtub. The man should be dead already.
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