Ex-Impeachment Manager Rips GOP For Playing ‘Whac-a-Mole’ On Jan. 6 Commission | Talking Points Memo

patterman · May 30, 2021, 5:16pm

Collins’s utterly contemptible hypocrisy is on full display already. If she’s a moderate, I’m a monkey.

theod · May 30, 2021, 5:16pm

Nancy’s House will do the necessary heavy lifting with a Select Commission. (Of course she needs to remind the public and Hypocritical GQP of the 33 Benghazi versions, too.)

Wasn’t it pretty stupid of Schumer to hold the vote at the start of a vacation weekend, thus giving chickenshit Senators (D & R) an excuse for not being around?

austin_dave · May 30, 2021, 5:16pm

I think they are hoping that Trump 2.0 will free them from prison, to great acclaim.

There should be lots of left over flowers from when the Iraqis didn’t cheer us for their liberation. They might be a little past their prime tho.

danny · May 30, 2021, 5:18pm

But I imagine that from a counter-intelligence point of view, there is a lot of digging to be done, and it can’t all be done in such a way that it can be immediately prosecuted.

osprey · May 30, 2021, 5:19pm

True. But entire avenues of inquiry (follow the money, Russia) were quashed or blocked, the big fish got away, and a good share of the populace was convinced by the admin and the press that there was no “there” there.

zenicetus · May 30, 2021, 5:21pm

The video evidence of the riot was used in an impeachment trial that was blocked by Republican senators. That was the audience for those clips, not so much the general public.

I’m talking about the voting public as an audience this time, where the DNC can run ads during the midterm election cycle showing the rioters waving Trump flags while beating up cops. Let any vulnerable Republican running for election in 2022 try to defend that.

austin_dave · May 30, 2021, 5:22pm

danny · May 30, 2021, 5:22pm

Okay, I agree, but all the speculation, or the certainty, that the investigation will be fought politically, is not reason enough, in my opinion, not to do a professional job of investigating what happenned and what allowed it to happen.

carolson · May 30, 2021, 5:22pm

And speaking of Texas, how about those new voting “reforms”? If you offer someone a ballot, it’s a felony.

progress · May 30, 2021, 5:24pm

Oh, ffs🤦‍♂️!

That’s right, Susan. Only investigations blessed by the stupendous Collins are valid. And it’s the Democrats fault that you caucus with a bunch of seditionists.

Got it.

osprey · May 30, 2021, 5:24pm

Actually Schumer scheduled the vote for Thursday but McConnell and the Repubs turned it into a circus and tried to bury the vote in the middle of the night. Schumer suspended the session till the next morning to force the vote to be live so people could see it happen. So basically, this was McConnell’s doing.

thunderclapnewman · May 30, 2021, 5:27pm

Back later—I’ve got to do a few hours of weeding so the clover won’t totally take over!

dannydorko · May 30, 2021, 5:28pm

“It’s like playing Whac-a-Mole with Chuck E. Cheese growing up.”

becca656 · May 30, 2021, 5:28pm

In the Senate, it’ll be hard to do; in the House, gerrymandering will make it a non-event. I know how it is here in Wisconsin, where we routinely elect Dems only when ‘districts’ aren’t in play. We have darned few D representatives, despite the Democratic bent in this State. I don’t imagine for a moment that any ads against Tiffany or any of the other Federal HR denizens in Wisconsin have anything to fear. There’s just no way an R doesn’t win in this State with the current configuration of districts.

If Fair Maps can get a new re-districting through, that’ll all change. I’m just not certain, with the legislature and judiciary as obstacles to making the change, that the outcome will be any different.

And we do this in Wisconsin, despite this:

Same thing happened with Medicare. And still they continue to be re-elected.

Republicans gavel out of special session on expanding BadgerCare in less than 30 seconds (channel3000.com)

This has been going on for the entire of the Evers governorship. Three years. And there wasn’t one member of the WI legislature that wasn’t re-elected. Some ran unopposed because it’s a waste of money to try and run.

rollinnolan · May 30, 2021, 5:28pm

Enjoy your outside time. I hope it is beautiful there.

danny · May 30, 2021, 5:28pm

Everything’s coming up roses, eh?

rickjones · May 30, 2021, 5:29pm

“Playing” stupid? (because it’s not a matter of thespianism for many of them)

Or lying?

Or … stupid, lying pieces of feces?

emiliano4 · May 30, 2021, 5:30pm

Sometimes I think that the TeeVee has a hand in all of this. No, I am not talking about FOX and RWNJ messaging.

I am talking about crimes that are committed, found out, person tried and sentenced in 43 minutes.

It makes the process to move on Trump and the Minions seem all too slow.

But the process exists, is a thing and is something Chump will tell his allies (not us) all the time.

dannydorko · May 30, 2021, 5:30pm

THanKs fOr leTTiNg aLL oF thE libTardS vEnt herE!

zenicetus · May 30, 2021, 5:30pm

When I apply Occam’s Razor to that idea, it’s just not necessary to explain what happened. Sure, there was some advance coordination among Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, etc. Maybe even some phone calls with Trump’s inner circle. But I think that was just a side show.

Trump laid the groundwork for the entire thing himself, for months in advance, by saying that the only way he’d lose would be if the election was stolen. Then he spent two months screaming that the election was stolen, culminating in his speech in DC where he whipped his crowd of supporters into a frenzy and aimed them at the capitol.

It wasn’t the Proud boys that did this, or Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, or anyone else. It was Trump. Everything else is just a distraction (with the understanding that anyone who actually broke the law should still be prosecuted).