Not “Legitimate Political Discourse”
Yesterday, even as Mike Pence FINALLY told the truth about Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, the RNC officially censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the January 6th Committee that they claimed was “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”. Liz Cheney fired back with a Tweet:
This was January 6th.
This is not “legitimate political discourse.” pic.twitter.com/lKgbVyVcJr— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) February 4, 2022
TFG is cementing his grip on the RNC for 2024. With weaklings like Pence finally finding their backbone, though, maybe it won’t be as easy as he thinks it is.
Too bad Pence didn’t say it January 6 or 7. Wonder when he finally figured it out.
1TFG has a huge war chest to be used to enhance the chances of his selected clones running for office. He’s already paid Meadows a million bucks. The only reason for TFG to run is his ego. They will all kiss his ring. That will permit him to have total control of the federal government with none of the headaches of being in office himself.
IDK who is doing the local stuff, but we noticed it years ago. One school board and city council seat at a time. May be the Council for National Policy.
Mike Dense is still clueless, and still has less backbone than slime mold. He might get elected to a school board in Columbus, Indiana, but his national and state-wide political career is dead. Let’s face it: taking over a year to say “Gee, those fellas chanting Hang Mike Pence maybe sorta were wrong” is not going to get him into the second edition of Profiles in Courage.
He spent his time in office sucking up to Trump, and had to call Dan Quayle (!) to be told that he would have to pull up his socks and do the trivial ceremonial task of certifying the election results. Please, El Jefe: never use the word “backbone” in proximity with “Pence”, unless it’s preceded by “total lack of” or “no”.
2Who the heck is TFG?
3So… when RWNJs riot, attack police, destroy public property and threaten government workers, it’s ‘Legitimate Political Discourse,’ but when Black, Native American, or liberals march peacefully, it’s treason, insurrection, and attempted murder?
Seems there were more insurrectionist cowards on Jan. 6th at the Capitol than in ALL BLM protests EVER.
4Pensive said he couldn’t overturn the election, but he didn’t go as far as calling the election fair and honest and a win for Biden, which it absolutely was. He didn’t go far enough so in my opinion didn’t wipe the slate clean. He was still the lapdog for TFG (that effing guy).
5Yes, indeed Surly Professor…..you must live in IN……..pence is no one to be admired here.
6Oh, puhleeeeze. Pence sat on the fence, didn’t call DOJ or the FBI, or anyone who should have been clued into incipient sedition while the plotting was going on. When it became apparent that the plot wasn’t going to work, then Pence got all conscientious about his Jan. 6 duties.
7wonder if this is what inspired mikie to speak?
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2656568667/
8@ charles r phillips: TGF stands for “The Former Guy”. It is widely used around the intertoobs. Stephen Colbert asked his audience to tweet new names for TFG, because Colbert has refused to speak is actual name for the past year or so and they responded like gang busters. My latest favorite is “Droolius Geezer”.
9BarbinDC @8: I have a list of around 150 other aliases for TFG, but you’ve just bumped the list to 151. Thanks! The list was beginning to stagnate since last May.
Now I get to spring it on my wife … but I’ll give a proper citation to you after she and I both stop cackling.
10“Agolf Twitler” is still my favorite.
11I find it difficult to praise Liz Cheney, because I disagree with practically every policy she has supported over her career, and pretty much everything she ever said except over the last year. Nonetheless, she’s right about January 6. Go get ’em, Liz!
12Mike Pence apparently was unwilling to act on his own … but he was happy to preside over the joint session and entertain challenges from a Representative and Senator to the Electoral votes of several states, and then calmly return from having people rampaging through the Capitol building to see MANY Republicans voting to decertify votes.
His objection now is not about lies or Trump’s actions to de-legitimize the vote — but only that he, a single individual, ought not determine the outcome.
I guess his commitment is to parliamentary procedure and majority rule of the people in the room — not that obscure Constitution thing.
13Its not just cowardice amongst the MEGA hatters on the Hill. In the main, they are as dumb or dumber than deep fried linoleum. They rely on blather to try and fake their way through the day. By the time 2024 rolls around the Golden Gibbon could be up to his ears in alphabetically sorted lawyers and indictments. Way too much will have been made pulic and the GG may decide that it just isn’t worth it and he isn’t getting any younger or more agile. It seems that in the lifetime of a lot of much too public men there is a time when they kind of recede into the woodwork thanks to Mother Nature.
14Mike Pence put his finger up to see which way the wind was blowing on January 6.
If he thought then something illegal was going on, like say an attempt to overthrow the government, he might have done something like call the FBI. Instead, he did nothing.
To me it sure looks like he only wanted to make a decision to come down on the “winning side.”
Now because all sorts of people are being investigated or jailed, only now does he find a rent-a-spine for this.
15charles r phillips @4: I had the same thought.
Waiting for them to come out and say the BLM “riots” last year were legitimate political discourse.
16Welcome to an alternate reality –
The RNC is making a Cheney seem like a decent human being.
17The RNC has lost credibility going back to Reagan’s days, but they haven’t completely gone off a cliff till now. I don’t see how any sane person can believe them from here on out.
But how many right-wingers are sane, anyway? Trump proved that it’s not damn enough.
18Seriously? Who’s surprised at all of this! This is the tin foil hat crowd who are also charter members of the world is flat sodiety!
19My right to vote and live in a free country is much more important to me than the well-being of any member of the RNC.
No matter how much money Ronna McDaniel spends on clothes and makeup, the ugly shows up as soon as she speaks.
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