I have a set of 6 jelly glasses that my dad gave to me when I got married. One of my older sisters got married the same year, so she got the same set. Dad had to eat a LOT of jelly that year!
Several years later, when it became clear that my other sister probably wouldn’t ever marry, she got her own set.
Using someone's military service to score "relative patriotism points," particularly when comparing them to pro-insurrection types, is not an opportunity that Pelosi would be likely to pass up. I'm a bit confused by how that might be seen as some great incomprehensible mystery.
They are examples of the Republicans from the early 1970s. While there were still many of them making excuses for the obstruction and involvement in criminal activities by Nixon (which barely register compared to those Trump has been involved in before and during his one term), enough Republicans in Congress were willing to stand up for the law, their oath of office, and the constitution to convince Nixon he either resign or face sure conviction on impeachment charges in the Senate. Despite even clearer evidence of impeachable offenses by Trump only one Republican voted to convicted in the Senate in the first trial and only seven on the second that covered his involvement in 1/6. And Congress could not get enough support for a bipartisan commission to investigate that insurrection, failing to get the 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filubuster, which sounds like those votes only occurred because they knew it would make no difference.
My bet is that if there had been 66 Democratic and independent senators favoring conviction, none of those seven would have joined to kick Trump out of office. And if it required only a simple majority, none would have voted for that commission and would probably pressed Manchin or Sinema (who failed to show up for that vote and still has not provided any specific reason) to join them because it was not really bipartisan.
I believe that if the GOP was composed of strictly Cheneys and Kinzingers, it would become fairly irrelevant as a political force. Sure they would still elect politicians, but they would quickly become the minority as they slid more and more out of touch with the country (and their voters aged themselves out of the electorate). At that point they would serve as a counterweight to the more extreme fringes of the Democrats, while the rest of the fairly solid “left-leaning-centrists” put us on a track to a better place.
BUT…until then, the inmates are still running the asylum, which keeps the deplorables riled up and voting.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday dismissed a warning from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to his members not to accept a seat on a special House committee that will probe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“Who gives a shit?” Kinzinger asked reporters Thursday morning when he was questioned about McCarthy's reported threat to members of his caucus that they could be stripped of their committee assignments for accepting a spot on the body.
Damn Carshield!! I'm about to call and complain (not really) but to see 'Ice-T' every commercial break is a bit much.... Their constant commercials rank up there with the Pillow Man and that ain't good.
That phrase "this is not a serious party" is one of the great understatements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Just because a collection of nihilists in 1950 or so discovered that there was a huge untapped pool of morons in the USA that they could convince by dubious logic to vote for them does not make them a political party by any intelligent person's thinking.
Tom Reed R-NY is retiring. Never heard of him but per his Wikipedia page he supported the bi-partisan commission, so maybe not a total wing nut. A possibility?
Cheetolini (or Cheatolini, si tu y tiens) should disgust the party he embraced, but they're mostly all in. Good on Pelosi, Cheney, and Kinzinger. This is deadly serious and as Stephen pointed out, they all had their chance to make it a 9/11 style commission, and failed.
DON'T SWAP MASKS! No, I don't care if hers matches your outfit.
I have a set of 6 jelly glasses that my dad gave to me when I got married. One of my older sisters got married the same year, so she got the same set. Dad had to eat a LOT of jelly that year!
Several years later, when it became clear that my other sister probably wouldn’t ever marry, she got her own set.
Using someone's military service to score "relative patriotism points," particularly when comparing them to pro-insurrection types, is not an opportunity that Pelosi would be likely to pass up. I'm a bit confused by how that might be seen as some great incomprehensible mystery.
Stealing a line from a great piece of screenwriting…
“When you tell lies, you incur a debt to the truth. And that debt will be paid.”
They are examples of the Republicans from the early 1970s. While there were still many of them making excuses for the obstruction and involvement in criminal activities by Nixon (which barely register compared to those Trump has been involved in before and during his one term), enough Republicans in Congress were willing to stand up for the law, their oath of office, and the constitution to convince Nixon he either resign or face sure conviction on impeachment charges in the Senate. Despite even clearer evidence of impeachable offenses by Trump only one Republican voted to convicted in the Senate in the first trial and only seven on the second that covered his involvement in 1/6. And Congress could not get enough support for a bipartisan commission to investigate that insurrection, failing to get the 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filubuster, which sounds like those votes only occurred because they knew it would make no difference.
My bet is that if there had been 66 Democratic and independent senators favoring conviction, none of those seven would have joined to kick Trump out of office. And if it required only a simple majority, none would have voted for that commission and would probably pressed Manchin or Sinema (who failed to show up for that vote and still has not provided any specific reason) to join them because it was not really bipartisan.
Then it will be some half-ass "informal" committee.
I believe that if the GOP was composed of strictly Cheneys and Kinzingers, it would become fairly irrelevant as a political force. Sure they would still elect politicians, but they would quickly become the minority as they slid more and more out of touch with the country (and their voters aged themselves out of the electorate). At that point they would serve as a counterweight to the more extreme fringes of the Democrats, while the rest of the fairly solid “left-leaning-centrists” put us on a track to a better place.
BUT…until then, the inmates are still running the asylum, which keeps the deplorables riled up and voting.
I hate to say it, but right now I would trust Liz Cheney before Kyrsten Sinema
Only on some subjects.
It's a real quote :
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday dismissed a warning from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to his members not to accept a seat on a special House committee that will probe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“Who gives a shit?” Kinzinger asked reporters Thursday morning when he was questioned about McCarthy's reported threat to members of his caucus that they could be stripped of their committee assignments for accepting a spot on the body.
https://thehill.com/homenew...
Damn Carshield!! I'm about to call and complain (not really) but to see 'Ice-T' every commercial break is a bit much.... Their constant commercials rank up there with the Pillow Man and that ain't good.
That phrase "this is not a serious party" is one of the great understatements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Just because a collection of nihilists in 1950 or so discovered that there was a huge untapped pool of morons in the USA that they could convince by dubious logic to vote for them does not make them a political party by any intelligent person's thinking.
Trump will be dead by 2028. I dreamed it last night so it must be so.
Tom Reed R-NY is retiring. Never heard of him but per his Wikipedia page he supported the bi-partisan commission, so maybe not a total wing nut. A possibility?
You know what Republicans say about people who take the Fifth.
Cheetolini (or Cheatolini, si tu y tiens) should disgust the party he embraced, but they're mostly all in. Good on Pelosi, Cheney, and Kinzinger. This is deadly serious and as Stephen pointed out, they all had their chance to make it a 9/11 style commission, and failed.