Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), whom the Republican House conference dumped as chair last week after she refused to kowtow to former president Trump, said some interesting things to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this morning. She reiterated that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has information about conversations with Trump surrounding the events of January 6 and should be subpoenaed if he will not talk about those things voluntarily (and, by implication, under oath).
I have campaigned by writing postcards to voters to registered Democrats only, in a group that started with 17 writers for Ossoff in 2017 , based in Georgia, and now has about 120,000 writers in all 50 states. Studies show we move the needle one percent, which is not nothing. I have written in 115 campaign actions which gives you a look at who Democrats are running and who is winning , in every possible election from local to federal. The Democrats organized on the grassroots level , after the likes of Donald Trump was allowed into the WH, with great animation to flip six governorships and elect judges who ruled in the bogus attempts in the courts to overturn the will of the people. To win all that we did in 2020 and on Jan.5 and hold the line against death threats to our state officials, including threats at the governors mansion twenty minutes from my house, with honesty and dignity, we have shown that what Joe Biden seeks to put forth in a return to civility and constructive positivity is indeed possible. I am putting in the mail today postcards for a New Mexico special election to Congress. We campaign year round. We get to really know the states and the people running. It has been thrilling and meaningful. Our motto for 2022 is Democrats Deliver! We are not focused on what mob thug tactics are being used to bash the country to pieces, we are focused on being on the side of morality and upholding American ideals.
"Now the Republican Party runs the risk of alienating voters it desperately needs as it faces a scandal of sex and drugs, a profoundly troubled election “audit,” accusations that party members are afraid to speak out because they fear for their lives, and suggestions from the former third-ranking official in the House Republican conference that the first official in the conference should be subpoenaed."
Joe Voter, and especially Joe Non-Voter, almost certainly hasn't heard of any of this. I play drums, and there's a guy I jam with. I like him a lot. He also has Fox News on all day. Or his wife does. Anyway, these folks COULD be changeable if they had a better media diet. But they will never hear about Matt Gaetz. Or anything other than the glory of dear leader.
Honestly, my friends would be better off not watching any news at all than watching Fox News. Maybe that's the best we can hope for. Then they might vote on what's really happening in their lives instead of what Fox tells them is happening in their lives.
As people remarked about their bingo cards over the past year, who'd have thought that today's would have as heroes of the day, Liz Cheney, a guy named Stephen Richer, and the Maricopa County Republican election officials. Heroes of the day for stepping up as the loyal opposition a two party system needs to maintain a healthy democracy.
It's interesting that "mob" has multiple meanings in the Republican Party. It's a party run like a crime family with Godfather Trump. And, it's a mob of gun toting insurrectionist proud white boys and girls beating up police and trashing our Capitol. And it's an undignified undisciplined group of poorly formed men and women who play at being elected representatives where proficient well informed capable men and women should be conducting our public business.
Just because the Republican Party may be exploding does not mean they are not deadly dangerous. Here's an analogy: After the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was unable to undertake another open ocean offensive action. Yet, between November 1944 and the end of July 1945, they inflicted the greatest casualties and losses the U.S. Navy experienced in the whole war through the suicidal Kamikazes, to the point that at the end of June following the Okinawa campaign, Admiral Nimitz, the American commander in the Pacific, was forced to tell the US Joint Chiefs that the Navy could not support the planned invasion of Japan because they would be unable to sustain the expected losses. (and no, it wasn't the A-bombs that made the Japanese surrender, though they liked to tell us that lie after the war to make us happy)
Nutbag extremists, faced with defeat, are almost always happy to take "the Samson alternative" and pull the temple down around them rather than voluntarily surrender.
Representative Cheney has sounded the alarm and calls for McCarthy's subpoena, also pointing out that many congressional Republicans and state officials fear for their lives. Considering the contradiction between McCarthy's current statements and his statements during and shortly following the January 6 insurrection, Cheney's advice should be heeded. I am not a Republican and never have been but we, as HRC asserts, need a healthy opposition party, a "loyal" opposition, to serve as a check on both parties. "Loyal" to what? To the Constitution and the rule of law. Our democracy hangs in the balance.
Congress has the power to declare war, to send our youth out to die for their country..if these Republicans do not have the courage to tell the truth, to stand up and protect this democracy and do their job out of fear they may lose their jobs or be threatened by Trolls of their own making they do not deserve the jobs they hold. Everyday the young women of "The Squad" face death threats and yet hold their heads up and work for the people...what cowards the GOP are.
I can't wrap my head around Liz Cheney admitting yesterday that she voted for iDJT in 2020. She said, "Well, I wasn't going to vote for Biden." Egads, how sick is our society that someone knowing and understanding how corrupt iDJT is still voted for him? She famously voted to impeach him. Anybody else astounded by this?
I would like to know more about why and how they feared for their lives. These are folks that should have very strong security around them. What did they know about? Does DT have some sort of goon squad taking out his political and other enemies? R Stone and co? DeVos’ mercenary brother E Prince? Why wouldn’t the FBI be on this? Surely these Senators could ask for and receive help?
We need the truth about every aspect of what happened on Jan. 6. And for everyone who broke the law to be punished. And for spineless Trump lickspittles like Kevin McCarthy to be forced to testify under oath. But I'm not confident that a bipartisan congressional commission will be effective, given that the GOP will do everything possible to weaken such an investigation. They fear the truth.
The first people whose behavior suggested that a mobster figure was in the White House were James Comey and Andrew McCabe--both highly experienced in prosecuting organized crime. Comey memorialized his private meetings with Trump and shared them with a secure third party (a Columbia professor) and McCabe drew many implicit parallels to the Mob in "The Threat," the book he wrote after he was fired.
Thank you Heather for this recap of the current state of the Washington Sanitarium, also known as the Republican Party.
I clearly remember Adam Schiff saying that there were Republican members who were afraid for their lives. I mentioned this recently and was challenged because "if that were the case, something would have been done about it". Well, that isn't the case, is it.
I read the news release regarding Trump saying the Maricopa data base is deleted and had to chuckle. As I said on my post on Facebook, doesn't he realized how insane he sounds when he talks like that? I suppose that is the rhetoric needed to speak to his base/cult.
I feel Merrick Garland needs to hold Kevin McCarthy's feet to the fire. Enough of this bullshit.
I thought McCarthy's derogatory comment this weekend about Trump's energy level versus Biden's deserved my Facebook observation of, to my knowledge, Biden doesn't snort Adderall.
Oh well, I guess I am rather course these days......
I have campaigned by writing postcards to voters to registered Democrats only, in a group that started with 17 writers for Ossoff in 2017 , based in Georgia, and now has about 120,000 writers in all 50 states. Studies show we move the needle one percent, which is not nothing. I have written in 115 campaign actions which gives you a look at who Democrats are running and who is winning , in every possible election from local to federal. The Democrats organized on the grassroots level , after the likes of Donald Trump was allowed into the WH, with great animation to flip six governorships and elect judges who ruled in the bogus attempts in the courts to overturn the will of the people. To win all that we did in 2020 and on Jan.5 and hold the line against death threats to our state officials, including threats at the governors mansion twenty minutes from my house, with honesty and dignity, we have shown that what Joe Biden seeks to put forth in a return to civility and constructive positivity is indeed possible. I am putting in the mail today postcards for a New Mexico special election to Congress. We campaign year round. We get to really know the states and the people running. It has been thrilling and meaningful. Our motto for 2022 is Democrats Deliver! We are not focused on what mob thug tactics are being used to bash the country to pieces, we are focused on being on the side of morality and upholding American ideals.
Of this observation, I am dubious:
"Now the Republican Party runs the risk of alienating voters it desperately needs as it faces a scandal of sex and drugs, a profoundly troubled election “audit,” accusations that party members are afraid to speak out because they fear for their lives, and suggestions from the former third-ranking official in the House Republican conference that the first official in the conference should be subpoenaed."
Joe Voter, and especially Joe Non-Voter, almost certainly hasn't heard of any of this. I play drums, and there's a guy I jam with. I like him a lot. He also has Fox News on all day. Or his wife does. Anyway, these folks COULD be changeable if they had a better media diet. But they will never hear about Matt Gaetz. Or anything other than the glory of dear leader.
Honestly, my friends would be better off not watching any news at all than watching Fox News. Maybe that's the best we can hope for. Then they might vote on what's really happening in their lives instead of what Fox tells them is happening in their lives.
As people remarked about their bingo cards over the past year, who'd have thought that today's would have as heroes of the day, Liz Cheney, a guy named Stephen Richer, and the Maricopa County Republican election officials. Heroes of the day for stepping up as the loyal opposition a two party system needs to maintain a healthy democracy.
It's interesting that "mob" has multiple meanings in the Republican Party. It's a party run like a crime family with Godfather Trump. And, it's a mob of gun toting insurrectionist proud white boys and girls beating up police and trashing our Capitol. And it's an undignified undisciplined group of poorly formed men and women who play at being elected representatives where proficient well informed capable men and women should be conducting our public business.
TCinLAjust now
Just because the Republican Party may be exploding does not mean they are not deadly dangerous. Here's an analogy: After the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was unable to undertake another open ocean offensive action. Yet, between November 1944 and the end of July 1945, they inflicted the greatest casualties and losses the U.S. Navy experienced in the whole war through the suicidal Kamikazes, to the point that at the end of June following the Okinawa campaign, Admiral Nimitz, the American commander in the Pacific, was forced to tell the US Joint Chiefs that the Navy could not support the planned invasion of Japan because they would be unable to sustain the expected losses. (and no, it wasn't the A-bombs that made the Japanese surrender, though they liked to tell us that lie after the war to make us happy)
Nutbag extremists, faced with defeat, are almost always happy to take "the Samson alternative" and pull the temple down around them rather than voluntarily surrender.
Representative Cheney has sounded the alarm and calls for McCarthy's subpoena, also pointing out that many congressional Republicans and state officials fear for their lives. Considering the contradiction between McCarthy's current statements and his statements during and shortly following the January 6 insurrection, Cheney's advice should be heeded. I am not a Republican and never have been but we, as HRC asserts, need a healthy opposition party, a "loyal" opposition, to serve as a check on both parties. "Loyal" to what? To the Constitution and the rule of law. Our democracy hangs in the balance.
Congress has the power to declare war, to send our youth out to die for their country..if these Republicans do not have the courage to tell the truth, to stand up and protect this democracy and do their job out of fear they may lose their jobs or be threatened by Trolls of their own making they do not deserve the jobs they hold. Everyday the young women of "The Squad" face death threats and yet hold their heads up and work for the people...what cowards the GOP are.
"One of the key functions of a strong opposition party in a functioning democracy is oversight”
I never thought of it this way, but it is a really important point.
I can't wrap my head around Liz Cheney admitting yesterday that she voted for iDJT in 2020. She said, "Well, I wasn't going to vote for Biden." Egads, how sick is our society that someone knowing and understanding how corrupt iDJT is still voted for him? She famously voted to impeach him. Anybody else astounded by this?
I would like to know more about why and how they feared for their lives. These are folks that should have very strong security around them. What did they know about? Does DT have some sort of goon squad taking out his political and other enemies? R Stone and co? DeVos’ mercenary brother E Prince? Why wouldn’t the FBI be on this? Surely these Senators could ask for and receive help?
I wish the wheels of justice would turn a little faster. I’d take a French press grind.
We need the truth about every aspect of what happened on Jan. 6. And for everyone who broke the law to be punished. And for spineless Trump lickspittles like Kevin McCarthy to be forced to testify under oath. But I'm not confident that a bipartisan congressional commission will be effective, given that the GOP will do everything possible to weaken such an investigation. They fear the truth.
The first people whose behavior suggested that a mobster figure was in the White House were James Comey and Andrew McCabe--both highly experienced in prosecuting organized crime. Comey memorialized his private meetings with Trump and shared them with a secure third party (a Columbia professor) and McCabe drew many implicit parallels to the Mob in "The Threat," the book he wrote after he was fired.
The question is, when will the GOP house of cards come crashing down?
I’m not a Cheney fan but it’s good to know she puts Country over party.
Thank you Heather for this recap of the current state of the Washington Sanitarium, also known as the Republican Party.
I clearly remember Adam Schiff saying that there were Republican members who were afraid for their lives. I mentioned this recently and was challenged because "if that were the case, something would have been done about it". Well, that isn't the case, is it.
I read the news release regarding Trump saying the Maricopa data base is deleted and had to chuckle. As I said on my post on Facebook, doesn't he realized how insane he sounds when he talks like that? I suppose that is the rhetoric needed to speak to his base/cult.
I feel Merrick Garland needs to hold Kevin McCarthy's feet to the fire. Enough of this bullshit.
I thought McCarthy's derogatory comment this weekend about Trump's energy level versus Biden's deserved my Facebook observation of, to my knowledge, Biden doesn't snort Adderall.
Oh well, I guess I am rather course these days......
Be safe, be well.