A lawmaker proposed to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows a brazenly anti-democratic plot to throw the 2020 election to Donald Trump — even before the race had been called for Joe Biden, records of Meadows’ texts described by the Jan. 6 Committee on Tuesday reveal.
Their contempt for the very concept of democracy is stunning. And it’s all of them except Cheney and Kinzinger (who’s been chased from the cult).
As the list of “usual suspects” grows by texts and tweets.
Pasting this, just cuz it’s interesting, and maybe forecasts how things could go:
Who? Exactly who is the member of congress who wrote that text message?
Mike Pence has been brain dead all along…
Take your pick of the GQP House or Senate. Anyone of them is capable / culpable.
Oh there are around 250 suspects…
The Republican Party’s claim that they are the party of law and order and defenders of the U.S. Constitution is in tatters and was and continues to be a complete fraud.
The most disgusting part of RepubliQan is that - as the whole world watches their efforts to cheat in every possible way to steal elections - they are screaming that it is the Dems who are cheating.
The 2nd most disgusting thing is watching most of our press ignore this as if it is normal.
Whoever wrote that placed themselves squarely in the “aid and comfort” to insurrection category.
“The committee did not identify the name of the lawmaker.”
Loving this. Watch. Watch how they behave and who is getting especially nervous. Will they clam up and try to lay low, which might actually be out of the ordinary for them? Will they get paranoid and do something outlandish and stupid? Will they squirm and writhe and out themselves? Watch.
NMNQ
“Both Sides!!” Yes, and the public’s faith in elections and democracy itself continues to decrease.
In a sane world. In this reality, probably every Republican will be claiming credit, and fundraising massively on the assertion that it was he who sent the incriminating text.
I love that s/he remains unidentified. It’s a huge hit off the “We’re onto you” pipe, and that’s always a really bad high. Paranoia and night terrors ensue.
The committee did not identify the name of the lawmaker.
Why not?
One hopes because he has been referred to the Justice Department for prosecution … but that’s probably just in my dreams.
There was nothing illegal or undemocratic about that text. Every Representative and Senator takes an took to uphold the Constitution. This good member of Congress was simply advocating for the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses to exercise their constitutional power to “appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors.” The fact that they would be directing the manner of appointment after-the-fact could be somewhat problematic, but McConnell has put them on solid ground when it goes to the SCOTUS.
Shorter version: Fuck the GOP (h/t to numerous TPM members).
Only real question now is whether Biden & Garland have the stomach & nerve to take this all the way, given the political risks and costs this would likely entail and the massive blowback from those feral Trumpie beasts and their AR-15s, antlers and zip ties. I think the risks and costs of not pursuing this all the way vastly outweigh the risks and costs of doing it. We’re going to have our little Civil War Part Deux eventually. Might as well just get it over with than wish that it just fizzles away. We didn’t go all the way with the CSA and look what happened. We did go all the way with Germany and Japan and look what happened.
Blitzkrieg over Sitzkrieg, I say. Just do it.
Just like it has been said about the Bobby Thompson homerun - that - there are approximately 500,000 people who will tell you that THEY were in the stands that day …
In this case … for as long as they think the tide is running in their desired direction … there will be 250 idiotic GQP leaning - Fascism embracing - Republicans claiming that they invented that idea .