Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on Sunday took aim at fellow Republicans who have taken to whipping up panic and fear-mongering over Afghan refugees following the Biden administration’s commitment to providing assistance on evacuation efforts as the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan.
Clearly Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has managed thus far to avoid the GQP intimidation and brainwashing of his fellow Rethuglican congresscritters. May he long succeed in avoiding the GQP thought police.
Kinzinger seems to have his heart set on early retirement but he’s a breath of fresh air while he’s still in the House.
“But what you see is, in the media echo chamber, this fearmongering, right, this: They’re coming to your neighborhood, these hordes of people that haven’t been vetted,” Kinzinger said. “I mean, that is not American. You can always have questions with how this was executed, but America has always been the country that opens our heart.”
Kinzinger is a Republican???
With words like this???
In Public?
To the media?
Kinzinger needs to clean up his messaging. Unless he had a plan that would move this many people out of Kabul while the Taliban moved into the seat of power.
“Both parties have failed the American people. And it can’t continue,” Kinzinger said. “And it particularly can’t continue with just pointing fingers while America’s embarrassed in front of the world.”
Common straight forward journalism folks. If you want to know why, then ask the people who voted no.
Kinzinger said that the 16 House Republicans who voted against speeding up visas for Afghans trying to flee the Taliban should be asked about the reasons behind their vote, before taking aim at fear-mongering from fellow Republicans.
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Not sure I like comparing those fearmongers this way
“If anybody wants to go out and fear-monger and continue that darkness in your heart and speaking it so you can win an election: A, you are either evil at your heart yourself, or, B, you’re a charlatan who’s only interested in winning reelection and you truly can’t say you care about the health of the American people if you’re out there doing stuff like that,” Kinzinger said.
Adam it’s not evil, it’s who they are. No need to try and throw religion in the mix, just come right out and say it, “There are racists in the GOP”.
He won re-election easily in 2018 and 2020 despite his history of crossing TFG. Didn’t even draw a primary opponent in 2020.
I’ve never in my life seen a national party take contradictory positions on multiple issues, changing positions constantly depending on which one wins the day. It’s happened with Covid, with the vaccines, the war in Afghanistan, law enforcement tactics, and has become especially prevalent since Trump became their leader. No surprise since there isn’t an ounce of intellectual integrity with him. Not to pile on the media, but they need to do a much better job of calling out the duplicity.
It’s obvious that the reason their Party no longer has a platform of positions is because they don’t stand for anything except raw power. And that’s not an actual position.
That’s what happens when a party or system isn’t paying attention. Vigilance is needed to keep the rif raf out of power positions. Unfortunately, as we know, the Republicans slowly became Tepubs. There are a few that still hold on to their old values and most of those values aren’t great to begin with.
as one wag commented, it’s Schrödinger’s elephant
Indeed so. It is easy to be a Kinzinger Republican (it is a type!). The trick is to be reasonably sane while still sufficiently cynical to have voted for Trump in Nov 2020.
What’s this? A Republican preaching christian values who means it? There is no room for him in the Hypocrite Party!
Well, good for Rep. Kinzinger! It’s about time the Sheepublican office holders started listening to their consciences instead of Fox, McConnell, McCarthy, or that old loser retiree in Florida.
(Sure, I know too many behave as if they don’t have a conscience. Some of that is clearly an act to get money and retain power.)
Word on the street here in the Land O’Lincoln is that he could easily loose his seat during our Dem-dominated redistricting process. Either he’s making a weak case to keep it or a strong case to run for something further up the food-chain perhaps even POTUS?
The DoD has its own agenda and I’m conflicted about it. I considered it patriotic when they slow-rolled Trump -a President deeply compromised by a foreign adversary -but it’s wrong for them, in general, to disobey the President. Clearly Biden felt he had to rush the withdrawal process because time and the DoD were not on his side. And he wasn’t wrong. I’m just not sure he anticipated the hyperbolic and one-sided response from the media. They’re taking it as a personal affront for whatever reasons.
Republicans were always going to give a hyperbolic response, that’s all they have left in their toolbox of responses. Not one of them mentioned the State Dept under Trump conducting negotiations with the Taliban, there’s even photographic evidence.
He’s a Republican.
Next.
I remember when many of them were like him.
Still didn’t like them.
Exactly. Tax cuts, privatize SS, Medicare block grants, keep the poor, poor while the rich get richer. So he’s a relatively sane jerkoff. He’s still a jerkoff.
He’s been through two presidential campaigns, both involving the deepest abysses of bizzare political opinion, weird meaningless reporting and myriads of dubious hot takes, the ACA legislation and roll out, the Tea Party fiasco, and Obama’s tan suit. Of course he expected this.
ETA. I left out Benghazi.
Senator? Governor? Three of the past seven guvs have been republican.