Posted on 06/13/2022 5:58:30 PM PDT by Ennis85
As important as it is for the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to make the nation understand what really happened on that horrific day, the panel has a more crucial mission: making sure that such an effort to overturn the result of a legitimate election does not happen again.
The potential is there, because the sedition continues. That should not be lost as the bipartisan House panel lays its case before the American people. Jan. 6 was not just a day; it was the opening salvo of a movement to undermine democracy.
Congress has yet to act on changing the vague language in the archaic Electoral Count Act, which sets the rules for how Congress tallies the electoral votes in presidential elections. The rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence” on Jan. 6 believed that the then-vice president had the power to throw out electoral votes at will and were infuriated that Pence was too principled to do so.
Their rage channeled that of then-President Donald Trump. One of the more jolting claims Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) made during the Jan. 6 committee’s opening hearing on Thursday night was that when Trump learned how the insurrectionists were threatening his vice president, he expressed sympathy … for the murderous mob. “The president responded with this sentiment: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea,’ ” Cheney said. “Mike Pence ‘deserves’ it.”
Trump has denied saying that, but has suffused his party, top to bottom, with fealty to the lies and conspiracy theories that ignited his supporters who breached the Capitol that day. All around the country, Republicans have not only embraced Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, but are also running on promises to further undermine the electoral process.
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“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
There's nothing bipartisan about it.
Granddaughter of one of FDR’S commie trairors.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t come up with some reason to cancel the midterm elections. These people are desperate.
Good grief !
How do these hack writers find their way to the office each morning ?
Good grief !
How do these hack writers find their way to the office each morning ?
Rapin Bill Clinton @sslamprey Karen Tumulty is still alive...
HRC
Lunatics.
I wonder how many of the left realize that the founding fathers were traitors against their king and fought to toss aside his yoke. Or maybe they do realize it and hate them for it as they attach that reassembled yoke on our necks and will allow no revolution against themselves.
For Democrats dissent = sedition. They’re having orgasms just thinking about jailing everyone who disagrees with them. We get closer every day.
This is your face after feasting on the fecal droppings of Clinton, Obama and Biden for years and years and years.
Dissent is only patriotic when they do it. If you disagree with them, it’s sedition.
This isn’t about jan 6.. it doesn’t matter to them pelosi refused help..nor that the crowd was invited in, baracades removed.. all that matters is they are scared outta their minds.. of Trump. One man.. and they lie cheat steal to stop him...
“Democracy does in darkness” what a joke. The Washington Post is strangling democracy in its crib.
The frightening thing is these people really believe this hog wash.
They remind me of those who believe that they have been abducted and probed by space aliens. Totally beyond all logic.
A good start to stopping the non stop sedition would be to shut down the NYT and WaPo then burn the husks to the ground. Maybe put a restroom on the spots with a septic tank underneath.
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