Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and serves on the panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, on Sunday criticized the Republican Party by characterizing it as “an autocratic cult around Donald Trump” that is “not interested in governing.”
More like autoerotic given how much the GQP gets off on TFG.
And yet there are people on these very Hive threads who claim “the Democrats are failing at messaging.”
And that’s defeatist armchair-strategist horseshit.
D’s should start calling them the Autocrat Party.
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BOOM: Adam Schiff confirms the January 6 Committee will refer anyone who defies subpoenas for CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. How do you feel?
Keep that up. Shower them with the disgust and derision they so richly deserve. They want us to fear them, the more we sneer at their childish threats the more unhinged they will become. Bury them in their own inadequacy.
Hear, hear. If you think it is bad here you should take a look at DK.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), … on Sunday criticized the Republican Party by characterizing it as “an autocratic cult around Donald Trump” that is “not interested in governing.”
Good: it’s time to get that ball rolling.
Next, cue up Moscow Mitch’s proudly crowing about being the ‘Grim Reaper’ of legislation and make him rue having thought, yet alone said, it.
Yep. Is there a more prominent person who’s condemned the Republican party for what it’s become in such strong and accurate terms? I can’t think of one. And I mean that: I’m not saying there isn’t, but there’s been a notable reluctance to be honest about this.
And while I don’t want to be railing about how they should say this and they should say that, it’s an opportunity to say they’re not against people who are conservative, and they’re not even categorically against conservatism, in the sense of small government, low taxes, avoiding foreign entanglement, only necessary regulations, respect for traditional values, all that more or less survivable stuff. But they should condemn radical nihilism and power worship, utterly devoid of any coherent and stable defensible guiding principles. And that’s what too many of them now accept. People generally don’t see stuff unless you point it out. It’s none too soon. Time to start putting out this fire while there’s still something to save.
I can’t say there has been, and I expect it to earn Schiff a barrage of disingenuous and disparaging shit from the Party of Insurrection.
I can only hope that the rest of leadership backs him and they have the balls to stick with it.
I would say Schiff is more or less unofficially a member of the leadership at this point. He’s been such a strong and intelligent voice of opposition that it’s looking like one of those situations where particular people step up because the times demand our best to come forward.
It was a shot across the bow of the GQP. Their violent language and “tough guy” stances plays well with their Proud Bois etc but if they try shit they will be facing the capital police/armed services with live ammo. Or state police etc. We’ve been hearing about this “threat” non stop for months. Make an example of the first wave and watch them scurry back to moms basement.
On reflection, I agree and have changed my post to say that.
Thanks.
Hey, to be clear I wasn’t arguing. I’m not sure “unofficial leadership” is entirely a thing. He does seem to me like a natural leader though, just as a personality type. He’s the kind of person, if you’re involved in a group effort and someone has some big idea, someone else is bound to say, “Has anyone spoken to Adam about this?”
I think the problem with the Dems is we have too many leaders, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. I think Schiff is truth teller, more then most in either party. He’s also one of those people that works instead of preens as so many Republicans do. If Republicans didn’t preen then they’d have nothing since they’re post policy, and what little sense of being a member of political party means to them nowadays is who can suck up to Donny.
One of the things that fascinates me about modern day Republicans is that they don’t have a deep bench. They can’t talk about policy because if they do and when they did Donny would contradict their position. The woman they elevated to a power position, Liz Cheney wasn’t having any of this insurrectionist shit so she had to be demoted. They then replaced Liz with Elise Stefanik who is pregnant and hasn’t been the attack dog they wanted lately.
The thing about having a policy position in the Democratic Party is that it can and has changed over time. While on the Republican side they’ve dig themselves into a hole that they can’t get out.
Defeatism is not an option. To be honest, I don’t know of too many struggles which are more unevenly matched: the GOP and the Dems, whose potential is at times untapped…but the former are extremely unscrupulous, heavily funded and comfortable with lying and misinformation dissemination in such a way as to enervate anyone valuing honesty and the Rule of Law
I’d say DiFi’s heir apparent…
Clearly, someone missed the memo that we are supposed to graciously lick the anus of Republicans for extending the debt ceiling by a few weeks.
No worries: I didn’t take it as an argument, just as a cause for reflection and clarification.
And, I agree that Schiff’s influence extends beyond whatever his formal position(s) in the party hierarchy may be.
FIFY