"Legitimate Political Discourse" - GOP


In a brazen affront to decency, the Republican Party has declared the January 6th attack on the Capitol as "legitimate political discourse."

The Republican National Committee’s voice vote to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City culminated more than a year of vacillation, which started with party leaders condemning the Capitol attack and Mr. Trump’s conduct, then shifted to downplaying and denying it.

On Friday, the party went further in a resolution slamming Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger for taking part in the House investigation of the assault, saying they were participating in “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”

It was the latest and most forceful effort by the Republican Party to minimize what happened and the broader attempt by Mr. Trump and his allies to invalidate the results of the 2020 election. In approving it and opting to punish two of its own, Republicans seemed to embrace a position that many of them have only hinted at: that the assault and the actions that preceded it were acceptable.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post editorial board summed up today's Republican Party: "By asserting, as their censure resolution did Friday, that truth is fiction and patriots are turncoats, they have exposed the dark, festering core of what their party is becoming: an unruly revolt against fact and reason."

The Vandals sacked Rome but the attack on the Capitol was an inside job.

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  1. TrailblazerFebruary 4, 2022 at 5:17 PM

    The fox , no pun intended,really is ruling the hen house be it north or south of the border.
    Add a few unruly Europeans and it's difficult to know just where to put your money/trust.
    The squeaky wheel gets the oil or does the oil get the squeaky wheel?
    Americans have swallowed , hook , line and sinker and worse still have exported their malicious politic world wide.
    How soon before the Canadian Conservatives take the same line with the truckers?

    Justification?
    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1241195075951

    I have no doubt Ultra Tories will seize the moment.

    TB


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  2. TrailblazerFebruary 6, 2022 at 5:45 PM

    And so say all of them!

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-ottawa-sunday-impasse-1.6341548

    The tail is wagging the dog.
    It always has but now it is becoming more obvious.
    What these clowns are doing in their ignorance the exposing the weakness of federal and provincial political hubs.
    Elected Governments do not rule by the mandate of democratic opinion , they rule by the forces of outside influence.

    TB


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