That’s the key. I kept a quote by George W Bush handy for a long time, something about how going to war is necessary to make peace. Lately, it seems like every speech has high-minded talk about freedom and rights and equality, but then the policy gets slipped in, and it’s the opposite of that. The worst of it, all over the news today, is the NRA talking about freedom.
With Cheney, you’d have to look a little harder at her voting record to find disagreement. But that’s how the system should work, right? It should be easy to say things like “ballots should all be counted”.
Trump’s political project can now be described in a single word: spite .
His personal animosities and resentments always played a key role in his political decisions, but what’s different today is how little anything else seems to animate him. It’s why he went to Wyoming to campaign for Harriet Hageman — and why Hageman herself was an afterthought. All that matters is that she’s primarying Cheney, whose criticism of Trump has been unrelenting.
I suppose you could argue there’s a rational strategy behind Trump’s actions: Like the mob boss he has so often resembled, he must make an example out of a disloyal underling, so nobody else gets any ideas. …
But there’s still power in one of the central rationales Trump offered to his supporters: There are people you hate — immigrants, racial minorities, uppity women, gays, liberals of all kinds — and I hate them, …
Ah what a grand attitude for this next phase of human history that we’re entering into.
“At this point, the committee is the only governing organ in the country that appears to be undertaking the project of fighting for American democracy with the zeal and acumen that it deserves.”
{Excuse me, don’t mean to be rude, but that was grating. Is that the best you can offer us?}
Sounds like an arrogant idiot to me. What’s Kyle ever done in the real world?
Has he ever been responsible for real people living difficult lives?
Looks like just another reader and talker?
Based on the few minutes I could stomach, I imagine that clown being a proud Nader voter in 2000.
Liz is a rare power house the defender of democracy in a time our form of government is most at risk, pragmatism matters, we live in a real world, not in a 40$ for 30Hr fantasy world. No one needs to love her, we apparently need her.
We love blaming the Democrat Party for their many failings and missed opportunities and rightfully so, but in the end the buck stops with the people. Everyone wanted to be fed an easy peazie most profits, for the least work, no worries about the future and to hell with investing any of our party money in tomorrow and fact is that ethic permeated through all of society. We are all culpable.
How else could someone like trump become president, I mean he was a dishonest phony person from the getgo, and most Americans loved it. He would have been utterly impossible in any other American era.
I’m talking about a rabid Republican who is on the BI-PARTISAN January 6th committee, and who is as impactful, in a positive way, as any of the Democrats on the panel.
I’d have felt comfortable with Al Gore as President in 2000.
But he was too honest and boringly factual for the American people. Considering how we are the masters of Too Much Is Never Enough guess it shouldn’t have been surprising. Consider the Clinton’s didn’t seem to give a hoot, sort of like Obama with his Victory Lap of self adulation, that managed to forgot all about all the unfinished business - and seemingly oblivious of what he’d done to the Radical Right Wing, (deception dependent) forces of America.
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.
Incidentally,
Post-Hutchinson Testimony, Cmte. Sends Out New Subpoena | Zerlina.
Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks discusses the latest subpoena from the January 6th Committee and the disagreement surrounding the testimony of a key witness
As far as I know, no one is talking about that, currently. She’s part of the 1/6 Committee and that is what people are talking about, but it’s not the Dems who’ve turned on her. It’s the Repugs because of the fact she’s leading the investigation and giving them what for, for the involvement in the dotard’s crimes, in each hearing. As for president, I’ve not heard of any talk of that, so the question doesn’t matter. I gather you haven’t listened to any of the hearings? You should, because your dotard is worse than Nixon.
As for president… I’ve always voted Dem., so she wouldn’t get my vote, but if she were president, she’d be better than the orange creature.
