Posted on 06/20/2022 7:58:00 AM PDT by Moseley
t is widely seen that the U.S. House Select Committee about January 6 is falling flat. See, e.g., Breitbart's article, "January 6 Committee's Third Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead." (For golf to be more interesting, it's bad.)
What's more amazing is that no clue has penetrated the fog of Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, or far-left activists about why. Our political class is so out of touch that it could not see this collective yawn coming.
And no, this is not about interviewing that one magic witness. It is the fundamental concept of their entire effort that the American people see through like a windowpane. There are no additional witnesses or documents that can save an enterprise doomed from the start.
First, the Committee is convincing us that this is only a political disagreement. Trump and his leadership team and MAGA voters are "guilty" of having incorrect political views and committing "wrongthink." (I encourage all to re-read George Orwell's 1984.) The Committee is trying to prove that Trump was just wrong.
The Committee is violating the First Amendment constitutional rights of millions of Americans, including by chilling, intimidating, and frightening U.S. citizens from expressing their political views. You are not allowed to believe that the 2000, er, 2016, er, 2020 presidential election was stolen — as Al Gore and then Jill Stein claimed.
Other than running up the body count of witnesses, the Committee is clearly obsessed with criminalizing political differences. But "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." Congress has no valid legislative purpose to cut the First Amendment out of the Constitution.
Second, the left-wing conspiracy theory of a January 6 "insurrection" could work only if people don't think about it too much.
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The voters are smart enough to remember that Liz Cheney became a congresswoman because in 2000, in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), her father, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush fought like hell to "Stop the Steal" of the 2000 presidential election. Thousands of pompous, better-than-you Bushies owe their credentials in government to Bush and Cheney refusing to step aside and just let the Democrats steal the White House. These hypocrites now fall on their fainting couches, clutching their string of pearls, moaning, "That just isn't done! Oh, the democracy of it all!" Yet they did it. And thank God.
The January 6 conspiracy theory depends upon hoping nobody remembers the violent riots, always from the left, including the "Battle in Seattle" in 1999; the 2014 arson and riots in Ferguson, Missouri; the civil war throughout 2020; etc.Democrats called for Trump's impeachment before he even took office. The "Women's March" protested Trump in vile terms the day after he was sworn in.
Third, Team Trump believed that with a flawed election, the vice president had the authority to send the Electoral College votes of problem states back to each state Legislature to ask, "Are you sure?" But Democrats wave a straw man that Trump wanted Pence to directly decide the winner, to decide the next president. That wasn't the question at all.
It is the state legislatures who decide the Electoral College electors pursuant to Article II, Section 1. Not the vice president. Not the governor. Not the state courts. Not election officials. See Pherson v. Blacker, 146 U.S. 1, 27, 13 S.Ct. 3, 36 L.Ed. 869 (1892). In our history, state legislatures have canceled popular elections and declared the electors themselves.
In 2000, the Florida Legislature was warming up to toss out the 2000 popular election — as fatally flawed — and directly appoint electors for George W. Bush and Liz Cheney's father. (See James, "Election 2000: Florida Legislature Faces Own Disputes over Electors," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11, 2000, p. A16 [cited in Bush v. Gore] and Joni James, "Florida's Senate Adjourns Without Naming Electors," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 15, 2000, p. A6.) This had nothing to do with Pence deciding who the president would be.
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Failing but don’t know why = Democrats
I will make this easy. Most of the people despise lying stinking greedy and selfish politicians. Those politicians should know that since they put up fences everywhere to keep citizens out because all those politicians are lying cowards who know damn well they are committing crimes against the people. Truth is, nobody care about them or their little propaganda shitshow they are staging in DC with the help of those cretins in Hollywood.
These politicians set up the shitshow on Jan 6th and are now providing another shitshow to cover their own criminal actions. We do not care about them or whether they were scared. Screw all of them.
All of this on top of a 21% unannounced pay increase for themselves makes us wish that DC sinks into a giant hole so we can start all over.
This is what happens when you live in an echo chamber.
The author is right, the country isn’t buying what they are selling.
Even if someone disliked the unarmed protest at the capital on Jan6th that doesn’t mean they suddenly like Congress. Most Americans are probably happy to see those cowards hide under their desks.
The dems also insist he HAD TO ‘certify’ the electoral college vote. As if it was just a ceremonial function he was required to do.
Most people understand ‘certifying’ means much more than that
If it is your job to ‘certify’ aircraft software and a plane crashes- guess who they are going to come looking at...?
He is not required to just rubber-stamp any crap they give him, and there were serious questions about the validity.
He was just too much of a coward to do it.
Another democrat/hollywood collaboration that turned out to be a box office disaster. They went too heavy on twisting the narrative, even die hard democrats thought it wasn’t believable.
On the other hand Colbert and his stooges should be frog marched in chains to the same dungeons the other “insurrectionists” are housed until they too are freed.
Yeah, helps us hang on to our rotten eggs and tomatoes.
Thank God that those evil insurrectionists weren’t able to scrounge up a second bare-chested guy in a Viking hat. It would have been the end of our democracy!
The media is doing everything it can to prop up this witch hunt.
Maybe if Schiff-head and lizard cheney screech even louder and more hysterically people will suddenly tune in.
I have a feeling they will regret inviting Mrs.Thomas to the witch hunt.
hmmm coincidence Kinzinger comes forward with a Smolett type threat now???
The Dems keep shooting themselves in the foot with their desperate “get Trump” impeachments and sham investigations. Pelosi will ultimately go down in history as one of the most vindictive and ineffectual Speakers of The House in our history. Why? Because of the stacked deck composition of all of her attempts to take Trump down. Her lack of allowing a modicum of fairness or solemnity in her multiple prosecutions of PDJT was easy for everyone to see and signaled to all that these were nothing more than politics.
Under the 12th Amendment, it is the electors from each state who certify their votes and transmit them to Congress.
The function of the Vice President (as President of the Senate) is to COUNT the electoral votes that have already been certified.
Anyone who thinks the VP of the United States has the authority to unilaterally reject even a single electoral vote is delusional.
Of such quality have the sifters of their local election districts groomed for office.
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