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THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2021-07-27 at 8:59 PM UTC
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2021-07-27 at 9:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Make
America
Go back to a democracy
Again
The New York Times
Liz Cheney Urges Inquiry Into Trump's Actions on Jan. 6
Catie Edmondson
Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, issued a defiant challenge to her own party on Tuesday as a special House committee began its inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying that the riot would remain a “cancer on our constitutional republic” if Congress failed to hold accountable those who were responsible.
Representative Liz Cheney delivered stern opening remarks for the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Tuesday.
In stern opening remarks, Ms. Cheney, one of just two House Republicans willing to serve on the panel, dared her colleagues to support a full investigation into the worst attack on Congress in centuries.
“Will we be so blinded by partisanship that we throw away the miracle of America?” Ms. Cheney asked. “Do we hate our political adversaries more than we love our country and revere our Constitution?”
Her remarks underscored just how isolated she has become in her own party as one of the few Republicans willing to speak out against President Donald J. Trump and his role in inspiring the attack on the Capitol. Ms. Cheney, the daughter of a powerful conservative family, has already been ousted from Republican leadership for her insistence on calling out the former president and his election lies, and her participation in the inquiry has drawn scorn from party leaders.
Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, thanked the officers on Tuesday for their work on Jan. 6 facing the mob.
Ms. Cheney focused her remarks on Tuesday on the former president’s role, urging lawmakers to find out “what happened every minute of that day in the White House.”
“Every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during and after the attack,” Ms. Cheney said.
Hoping to move past horrific political optics and fearful of invoking Mr. Trump’s wrath, just 35 Republicans in the House supported the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the attack. Only Ms. Cheney and Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who is also serving on the select committee in defiance of his party, supported the creation of the panel led by lawmakers.
Mr. Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, grew visibly emotional during his remarks on Tuesday, choking back tears as he angrily condemned conservative “counter narratives” and conspiracy theories designed to undercut the gravity of the Jan. 6 attack.
“Many in my party have treated this as just another partisan fight,” Mr. Kinzinger said. “It’s toxic and it’s a disservice to the officers and their families.”
Republican leaders are boycotting the proceedings, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to seat two of the five lawmakers they had recommended, citing their statements backing Mr. Trump’s false election claims, equating the riot to racial justice protests and disparaging the investigation.
“I’m here to investigate January 6 not in spite of my membership in the Republican Party, but because of it,” Mr. Kinzinger said. “Not to win a political fight, but to learn the facts and defend our democracy.” -
2021-07-27 at 10:23 PM UTCThe Hill
GOP up in arms over Cheney, Kinzinger
Mike Lillis and Scott Wong 21 mins ago
GOP leaders are facing mounting internal pressure to discipline a pair of anti-Trump Republicans taking part in the special investigation into the Capitol attack of Jan. 6.
Conservative lawmakers are up in arms that Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) - both appointed to the select committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) - have taken on the task with relish, using the panel's first hearing on Tuesday as a televised platform to bash former President Trump for instigating the riot.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the head of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, sought during a closed-door meeting Tuesday to exile both Cheney and Kinzinger from the Republican conference. And other members of the group are piling on, maintaining that the defiant pair have forfeited their rights to membership in the GOP, including their seats on committees.
"I think they've left the Republican Party, based on their actions," said Rep. Bob Good, a first-term Virginia Republican and member of the Freedom Caucus. "I think that they should be removed from their committees as Republicans. And I support an effort that took place this morning in the conference meeting."
A second Freedom Caucus member, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), tweeted Tuesday that Cheney and Kinzinger should be banned from private GOP conference meetings "while effectively working for Pelosi," while a third, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), echoed her colleagues' calls for revenge.
"I personally think that if someone is going to serve on a committee that was not selected by [Republican leaders], then perhaps they should no longer be on their committees or part of the conference," Lesko told The Hill in a brief interview.
The outcry on the right is creating a headache for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other GOP leaders, who have eyes on flipping control of the House next year and are scrambling to keep their conference united to advance that goal.
They have few good options when it comes to Cheney, the daughter of a former vice president, and Kinzinger, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Kicking the two out of the conference would only highlight the stark Republican divisions when it comes to Trump, the mercurial figure at the center of both the Jan. 6 attack and the select committee's probe into it.
Yet keeping them in the conference would ensure that the anti-Trump Republicans would continue to associate with the rest of the conference, exacerbating the internal discord with conservatives and distracting from their attacks on Biden administration policies.
Faced with that dilemma on Tuesday, Republican leaders punted, denying Biggs a vote on his expulsion resolution but kicking it to a yet-unnamed committee. The decision essentially rejected the Freedom Caucus's demand to get tougher on Cheney and Kinzinger.
The move marked a gamble for McCarthy, who has designs on the Speakership if his party takes back the House and will need the support of the Freedom Caucus to realize that goal. Indeed, it was the conservative flank that blocked his ascension to the Speaker's office in 2015, following the retirement of Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Good, the first-term Virginian, offered one word for the leadership's strategy: "Disappointing."
The GOP clash arrived on a somber day on Capitol Hill, where the select committee heard highly emotional testimony from four police officers who said they've suffered lasting damage - physical and mental - after defending the Capitol complex from the violent mob on Jan. 6.
McCarthy last week had pulled his nominees from the special panel to protest Pelosi's decision to reject a pair of ardent Trump defenders, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.). That strategy was hailed by most of the GOP conference, but it also left Trump defenseless on the special panel. To shift attention away from that probe, GOP leaders are now blaming Pelosi for the violence of Jan. 6.
"Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as Speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6," said Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), who ascended to GOP leadership in May after Cheney was knocked out for criticizing Trump.
Asked about Stefanik's charge, Cheney was fierce.
"If I were saying the things" that Stefanik said, "I'd be deeply ashamed of myself," Cheney said in an interview with CNN.
It was not the only obstacle McCarthy was forced to navigate in recent days. The Freedom Caucus this week sent a letter urging the GOP leader, by week's end, to force a floor vote to "vacate the chair" and oust Pelosi as Speaker for vetoing Jordan and Banks. McCarthy responded Monday by forcing a vote on a resolution merely condemning Pelosi for her actions.
Biggs told The Hill that McCarthy's maneuver didn't go far enough: "Condemn versus vacate the chair? I'd rather vacate the chair."
After Jan. 6, Cheney has emerged as Democrats' favorite Republican, and they gave her a prominent role during and after Tuesday's hearing. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, allowed Cheney to make opening remarks immediately after his own, then positioned her in front of the television cameras during a news conference right after the hearing.
Both Cheney and Kinzinger appear unfazed by any threats of retribution from their GOP colleagues, saying they are solely focused on upholding their oath to the Constitution and getting the facts of the events of Jan. 6.
"We had a big attack on Jan. 6. We heard very emotional testimony today. And that's what's on the forefront of my mind. And if people want to get petty - that's fine," Kinzinger, flanked by his fellow panel members, said after the hearing.
"This is a historic moment and this is a democracy-defending moment. And no matter the consequences, me and I know Liz will stand for democracy." -
2021-07-27 at 10:30 PM UTCDeseret News
The two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee called out GOP. Here’s what they said.
D. Hunter Schwarz
The two Republicans serving on the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol both emphasized their party affiliation and the stakes of the investigation during the committee’s first hearing Tuesday.
“I’m here to investigate Jan. 6 not in spite of my membership in the Republican Party, but because of it,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., mentioned first voting for Ronald Reagan in 1984 and having disagreements with Democratic members of the committee, but said, “in the end, we are one nation under God.”
The intended audience of Tuesday’s hearing in Washington, D.C., was history — “Our children are watching,” Cheney said — and the mood was shaken but resolved. Kinzinger teared up when addressing the four officers who testified about their defense of the Capitol. “You guys won,” he said. “You guys held.” Other lawmakers wiped away tears and grimaced while watching graphic footage of the attack.
Kinzinger criticized Republicans who “treated this as just another partisan fight,” and called their actions “toxic.” Cheney described the cost of not investigating Jan. 6 as existential.
“If Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic, undermining the peaceful transfer of power,” she said. “We will face the threat of more violence in the months to come, and another Jan. 6 every four years.”
The bipartisanship of the select committee was an open point of contention in the lead-up to first hearing. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy withdrew his five Republicans picks for the committee — three of whom voted against certifying the 2020 election — after Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two. The committee is split 7-2, but it will have subpoena power and committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said its investigation would not be partisan.
“We’re going to be guided solely by the facts, the facts of what happened on Jan. 6, in the run-up to that tragic day, and what has taken place since,” he said. “There’s no place for politics and partisanship in this investigation.”
Some House Republicans have questioned Cheney and Kinzinger’s loyalty and called for their ouster. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., tweeted that the pair had “effectively removed themselves from the Republican Conference. We should help them out the door by formalizing their departure.” McCarthy branded the duo “Pelosi Republicans,” suggesting someone who voted with former President Donald Trump 92.9% of the time has much in common with a San Francisco liberal.
Cheney and Kinzinger were among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection after the Jan. 6 attack and both face primary challengers next year. Trump is especially focused on finding a candidate to unseat Cheney, and advisers have had talks with potential challengers for several months, according to Politico.
Though Cheney and Kinzinger are out of step with their party, some polls show they’re in line with a majority of the public. A CBS News poll found 72% of Americans believe “there’s more to learn” about the Jan. 6 attack, and 56% said they would describe what happened at the Capitol as an “insurrection.”
During the hearing, those who attacked the Capitol were called terrorists and insurrectionists. U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn addressed them directly: “You all tried to disrupt democracy that day and you failed.” He used an analogy of a hitman to allude to Trump. “There was an attack carried out on Jan. 6 and a hitman sent them,” Dunn said.
D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone slammed his fist on his desk when calling out members of Congress who downplayed or denied what happened. “The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful,” he said.
“So many of my fellow citizens, including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend, are downplaying or outright denying what happened,” Fanone said. “I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room, but too many are telling me that hell doesn’t exist or that hell actually wasn’t that bad.”
U.S. Capitol Police sergeant Aquilino Gonell was unequivocal in calling what happened “an attempted coup” and he said it was “something that (Trump) himself helped to create.”
“It was an attempted coup that was happening in the Capitol that day and if it had been another country, the U.S. would have sent help,” he said. “People need to understand the severity of and the magnitude of the event that was happening that day. We were all fighting for our lives.”
D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges, who is white, described the insurrection as a white nationalist action and some of the insurrections “tried to convert us to their cult” even as they spewed slurs at Black officers.
“Some of them would try to recruit me,” Hodges said. “One of them came up to me and said, ‘Are you my brother?’”
So far, at least 543 defendants have been charged in connection with the insurrection, more than 200 have been indicted by grand juries, and at least 23 have pleaded guilty, according to CBS News. -
2021-07-27 at 10:52 PM UTCThe Atlantic
Republicans Have No Answer for January 6
Elaine Godfrey
All along the hallways of the Capitol complex today, members of the Capitol Police stared at their phones and nearby TV screens. Four of their fellow officers were testifying before Congress for the first time about the treatment they’d endured on January 6. They described being beaten with metal flagpoles, sprayed in the eyes with wasp repellent, and shocked with their own Tasers. One of the men cried while he spoke; a colleague patted his back. Their hands shook as they took careful sips of water.
This morning’s testimony was the first time Americans have heard such a vivid and agonizing account from the front lines of the attack—the officers’ growing panic as the mob surrounded them, how the rioters called them “traitors” and threatened to kill them with their own guns, the realization that they might die right there on the marble steps of the Capitol. But just as striking as the officers’ testimony is Republican lawmakers’ refusal to engage with it. The GOP response has been to minimize or even scoff at what occurred.
Early in the hearing, the officers who testified watched as the select committee chair, Bennie Thompson, played a compilation of footage and police recordings that stitched together the day’s events: the frantic calls between officers; the ominous sound of rioters banging on the glass outside the east entrance of the Capitol; Officer Eugene Goodman urging Senator Mitt Romney to flee the mob. A few minutes into the video, the C-SPAN camera panned away to capture Officer Daniel Hodges looking at himself on-screen, which showed him crushed against a door and struggling for air as a rioter pried off his gas mask. While he watched, Hodges’s face was inscrutable, but his cheeks were flushed.
As Hodges was preparing to relive what was perhaps the most traumatic day of his life, the Republican House conference chair, Elise Stefanik, was outside hosting a rival event: a press conference during which she blamed the January 6 violence on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “It is a fact that the U.S. Capitol Police raised concerns, and rather than providing them with the support and resources they deserved, she prioritized her partisan political optics over their safety,” Stefanik said. (Pelosi does not oversee the operations of the U.S. Capitol Police.)
Stefanik’s was only one excuse of many. Shortly after January 6, Donald Trump’s allies spun up a story accusing antifa of infiltrating the mob and instigating the assault. In May, the GOP lawmaker Andrew Clyde of Georgia described the riot that threatened the lives of his colleagues as a “normal tourist visit.” Just this morning, a contributor to the far-right American Greatness magazine characterized the testifying officers as “crisis actors,” playing victims for liberal political ends.
Republicans would like nothing more than to stop talking about this day. It’s why they voted to oust Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, a fierce Trump critic, from her leadership position earlier this summer, and it’s the reason so many GOP lawmakers voted against establishing an independent committee to investigate January 6. In a recent interview, the freshman Republican Nancy Mace offered a tidy summation of her party’s broader feelings: “I want to be done with that,” she told me. “I want to move forward.”
But the GOP’s sweep-it-away approach will be difficult to sustain. According to Cheney, the select committee plans to investigate “every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during, and after the attack,” which will keep the issue in the headlines for the coming weeks or months. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s decision to pull his appointees from the committee after Pelosi refused to seat Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana seems like it might have been a political miscalculation. Now the GOP has no one on the panel to counter or challenge the investigation. The only two Republicans on the panel are Trump detractors appointed by Pelosi—Cheney and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois—which will underscore that there are still members of the party who hold the former president and many of their colleagues responsible for the insurrection.
During the hearing, the officers took turns recounting the day’s events. Sergeant Aquilino Gonell said he’d been more frightened on January 6 than he was during his entire deployment in Iraq. Officer Harry Dunn said he was called the N-word. Officer Michael Fanone recounted being dragged into the crowd of rioters, beaten, and tased: “I’m sure I was screaming, but I don’t think I could even hear my own voice.” Hodges described how a man had hooked his finger into his right eye and tried to gouge it out.
By late morning, they’d finished making their statements, and the question-and-answer portion of the panel was about to begin. Televisions across the Capitol complex flashed with hearing coverage. A CNN reporter asked Clyde, the Republican who’d described January 6 as a “normal tourist visit,” what he made of their testimony. “I have not heard anything yet today,” he responded.
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2021-07-27 at 10:59 PM UTCRepublicans thinking they can
Make
Americans
Go home
Again because they are taking their ball away...boo-hoo
CNN
House Republicans pull out of another key select committee
By Annie Grayer, CNN
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled out all six Republicans designated to serve on a key select committee on the economy, three sources tell CNN, a sign of the fallout among House Republicans over being vetoed from the panel investigating the January 6 insurrection.
None of McCarthy's initial appointments to the select committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth will be joining that committee's first meeting this week, a lawmaker familiar with the committee told CNN.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill also confirmed to CNN that McCarthy's selections to this key economic select committee had pulled out.
What is still unclear at this time is whether these Republicans are boycotting the committee temporarily or leaving it altogether. It also remains to be seen whether there are other select committees Republicans will reject.
A separate lawmaker familiar with the select committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth told CNN that McCarthy removed Republicans from this select committee as "a hold for if and when he gets his appointments to the 1/6 committee."
Pelosi has made clear that McCarthy will not get all five of his initial picks to the January 6 select committee. She named GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming to the select committee, and after she rejected Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, McCarthy pulled the rest of the Republicans from the committee. Pelosi responded by adding Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, to the panel, in an effort to give it bipartisan credibility even without McCarthy's participation.
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2021-07-28 at 12:03 AM UTC^ A quintuple poster!
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2021-07-28 at 1:33 AM UTCdat nigga done lost it
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2021-07-28 at 4:35 AM UTCNeal Katyal: DOJ decisions, bad for Trump, are ‘pro rule of law’ decisions
The DOJ refused to block ex-Trump officials from testifying about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and refused to defend Rep. Mo Brooks in a lawsuit for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection in which Trump is also named. Neal Katyal discusses the implications of these rulings that did not go well for “Trump and his minions” and could expose Trump to criminal liability: “The truth is going to come out. These folks will be held accountable.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/neal-katyal-doj-decisions-bad-for-trump-are-pro-rule-of-law-decisions/vi-AAMDHfw?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531 -
2021-07-28 at 5:16 AM UTCNo.
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2021-07-28 at 5:32 AM UTCIt's going to be so much fun getting you on the witness stand.
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2021-07-28 at 5:40 AM UTCFifth amendment motherfucker.
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2021-07-28 at 7:02 AM UTCBTW sti do you realise that "terrorist" is exactly what the jedis call Palestinians.
Anyone who opposes being replaced are terrorists.
Both Americans and Palestinians are replaced, both groups are terrorists now. And they'll never be allowed to have their own countries ever again. -
2021-07-28 at 7:19 AM UTChes a kike
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2021-07-28 at 11:33 AM UTCanyone see Biden calling out for his mommy yesterday?
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2021-07-28 at 12:32 PM UTC"This time we got him for sure!"
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