Senate Democrats, still acutely burned after their Republican peers sunk the bipartisan bill to set up a January 6 commission, are now left with the consolation prize of a Senate report far too narrow to plumb the depths of the insurrection and the factors that caused it.
When will Biden’s DOJ start using the rule of law to put a stop to the recount crimes? Why can they act with such impunity?
Joe, ya gotta help us understand here. Something looks so rotten to anyone who voted for you right now, it hurts.
And I don’t mean Manchin.
He’s fossil fuel in an electron world, why can’t our governance reflect our modern culture, instead of 20th Century oil-robber-barons?
Indulging the Trump nuts is just making the rest of us feel like there’s some sort of falsehood being perpetrated on all of us. Who are you guys afraid of?
Why do Senate Republicans’ feelings matter more than your voting majority?
Do this thing without them or lose the future for all of us.
Stop playing nice with evil people. DO SOMETHING THAT MATTERS TO US, not them.
They didn’t vote for you, Joe. The MAJORITY did.
Never forget Benghazi.
But of course the advantage to a commission set up by Democrats only is they get to set all the rules.
Let the commission run through next year. Anything fit to print goes on and on. Damage to Republicans by a thousand cuts; they earned it.
It’s a good thing we have forever on these issues because it certainly seems like forever is being taken.
If the shoe were on the other foot, Republicans would not try or want a bipartisan review. That is if Republicans had the power they would use it to punish Democrats for being Democrats. Why are Democrats so unwilling to do the same to Republicsns.
Pelosi should order a select committee, the press will have to cover it, and laugh when Republicans complain .
We need and want a full investigation of the insurrection on our Capitol! Trump followers destroyed our Capitol and they attempted to hunt down politicians to harm or perhaps kill them. Nothing short of a full investigation will do!
The downfalls of a “partisan” House select committee, even one staffed with some Republicans, are obvious: Republican leadership would write it off as a Democratic witch hunt and disregard its findings.
This is no longer a significant cause of reservations: reactionary leadership, in the wake of rejecting the bipartisan 1/6 commission, negotiated to their own specifications, have made clear that this is the rhetorical strategy they’re going to use, regardless of how an investigation is set up.
IOW, fuck 'em, just do it.
Our government is supposed to be based on “checks and balances”. Let’s start checking before the GQP takes us even father away from any semblance of balance.
Like Godwin’s rule, the risks of being partisan are no longer in effect.
Just get it done. If the facts and truths held within are facts and truths, the “appearance of partisan politics” is not in action. I am tired of this stalking horse when the reality is the other side will claim it regardless.
Every Dem success is now just another nail in their coffin, only Dem failure keeps them viable.
Republicans have no option but total obstruction. Everything Democrats and the Biden administration accomplish, no matter how common and trivial by most standards, represents Republicans losing the future. They can only obstruct it now, they can’t win it back.
Do
it
OT: Val Demmings officially threw her hat in the ring this morning for Marcos’ seat.
GOOD LUCK VAL!!!
The lady who exhibits a great deal of genuine confidence versus the man who exhibits a great deal of who he actually is:
An abject coward.
And any press release, press availability, interview, or even an answer to a question asked as a Dem walks into an office or into a vote should be prefaced with a variation of “Republicans negotiated a process for a bipartisan commission and then refused to allow a vote on the commission. We think that the American people deserve a transparent investigation into the assault on our country. That is happening now. Perhaps the GOP can answer why they don’t want to investigate an insurrection that killed five Americans, including a Capitol Police Officer.”
Do it. Whatever works. Letting Moscow Mitch control the conversation has got to stop. The only way you peel off some Republicans is to raise the costs of obstruction. So Dems, get to work and figure out how to do that.
“Some sort of falsehood being perpetrated on us all”
Like we aren’t living through a mass extinction event and we aren’t the “baddies”.
Maybe a press briefing at the actual Four Seasons Hotel, every couple weeks? Not vindictively of course, it’s just a really classy venue, and the bar is world-class (so I hear.)
I’ll bet that “struck a nerve”.
I just read a NYT article on the need for the GOP to move on from the former guy. My favorite line is when Comstock calls DJT “the patron saint of sore losers”, although I think we could do a lot with “patron saint of losers”. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/opinion/republican-party-2022.html?smid=url-share