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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJennifer Rubin @ WaPo: Jan. 6 select committee is already exceeding all expectations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/28/jan-6-committee-manages-impress-educate/Indeed, the surprises kept coming on Monday. The sincere and spontaneous emotional reactions from Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and law enforcement officers stood as a rebuke to the cynicism of Republicans who continue to lie about the insurrection. It also implicitly rebuked the media, which too often dabbles in bothsidesism, even to this day.
Kinzinger could barely get through his tribute to the officers bravery. You guys won," he said tearfully. You guys held. Democracies are not defined by our bad days. We are defined by how we come back from bad days.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has pulled no punches concerning the insurrection, was even more emphatic in skewering her own party. On Jan. 6 and in the days thereafter, almost all members of my party recognized the events of that day for what they actually were," she said. She added, No member of Congress should now attempt to defend the indefensible, obstruct this investigation or attempt to whitewash what happened that day. Its no wonder she gives Republican toadies the shakes, especially when she warns that failure to hold all those involved responsible would allow the cancer on our democracy to go unchecked. As she put it: We must know what happened here at the Capitol. We must also know 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.
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Finally, if the Justice Department harbored any doubt that it should investigate whether there was any involvement in the attack by lawmakers or whether the former presidents incitement of the mob rose to the level of criminality, that vanished on Monday. The officers pleaded with the committee to find anyone who collaborated or spurred the attack. They are not willing to let bygones be bygones. None of us should. The Justice Department should follow the facts and indict anyone found to be criminally liable for the violent insurrection.
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Youd think after 5 years of insanity and a violent insurrection the media would already get this ..
It made me want to vomit reading articles in MSM accusing PELOSI of making the committee partisan by refusing to allow a likely material witness and someone who publicly stated they dont support the committees purpose on the committee.
Politico and USA Today have been PARTICULARLY BAD!
Charles Pierce calls Politico "Tiger Beat on the Potomac". That might be too kind of a description for them.
I get so ANGRY when I see some of these AWFUL misleading headlines. The Times is bad too.
Charlie Pierce is brilliant!
Both Politico and USA today are rags.
tanyev
(42,636 posts)PSPS
(13,620 posts)BarbD
(1,194 posts)I watched the Congressional Committee yesterday in tears but with hope.
We will get to the perpetrators. Truth and justice will prevail.
llmart
(15,557 posts)I was listening to testimony on NPR yesterday as I was driving and I got really choked up at some of it. Then I got angry all over again about what happened on Jan. 6th and I want to see justice served, starting with the entire trump family.
Me.
(35,454 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)FORGOT - FREEDOM OF THE PRESS- all for freedom of the press ,but mite try getting shit rite once in while . I gave up reading their shit 4 yrs ago.
oasis
(49,429 posts)UTUSN
(70,762 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but that just isn't done when the violator is a public official. At worst a judge might be asked to find him in contempt, setting him up for some legal hand slapping.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)Time is yielding much clarity which will allow more rapid progress with greater relevance. But the committee must do its job with relentless integrity.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)The Roux Comes First
(1,300 posts)Accepting the horrid state of the white supremacist party as the status quo and playing both-siderism off of that.