The Republicans don’t want a bi-partisan investigation of the insurrection? Fine. See how they like congressional investigations by committees that are led by Democrats. Democrats have majorities in both house. This will be a good time to use them.
There is one thing that scares me about your concluding remarks...if you replace us with Trumpers it is also marching orders for the "crazies"...except for the idea that there are more of us than there are of them. We must follow Stacey Abrams and make sure that voter turnout is historic for a mid-term election!
Though provoking edition today! Two points came to mind while reading:
1. If Bill Barr were “hypothetically” consistent in his thinking...shouldn’t he have also demanded that the Dark Web reveal the identity of “Q”?
2. We WILL go out in mass to vote...and we WILL get out the vote here in Georgia. The only problem here (and a few other states around the country)is that our Governor has now tied the hands of the Sec of State...if they deem something “might be” wrong...the new law allows a Republican-controlled board to temporarily take over local election offices. I can already guess which urban counties will be targeted...and it’s not the rural one that Marjorie Taylor Green calls home.
Yes, I agree. that is one of the most pernicious aspects of the Georgia legislation. Georgia state legislators can decided that the county election officials are "underperforming" in their jobs. That means any state legislator who doesn't like the results can claim the county election official isn't looking hard enough for votes in favor of the incumbent. What could go wrong with that? And why the heck are state legislators part of the running the election process?
This is the whole point that the media glosses over. They went for the well-orchestrated bait (of water bottles and pizza) to muddy the real intent of the this dangerous law. The intent is that this will be a "pseudo-election". Legislators have no business in a FAIR election process. The phone transcript of Trump telling Raffensburger and Sterling to find the votes...is now written law of the land in Georgia. I am not sure we will have the right chess pieces on the board to recover from this law...but the MASSES will turn out to vote...and will take to the streets if this evil plays out.
I suggest that Democrats, including elected officials, call for DOJ or FBI to label the Republican Party as a domestic terror organization. The idea may sound facetious, but it reflects the bottom line reality of their tactics: send an armed mob to prevent counting of electoral votes and thereby sabotage the peaceful transfer of the presidential office; when counting resumes then vote against certifying the electoral vote; then deny the mob existed, or, if it did, describe it as Antifa or "tourists," while ignoring all the MAGA hats and Trump banners. Next, with 145 dead or injured police and some 400 insurrectionists and armed trespassers under indictment, vote against a commission to investigate the causes that created the mob, motivated their rioting, and the failure(s) of law enforcement or National Guard to respond quickly enough to prevent the mayhem. Their strategy seems to be based on amnesia--their hope that voter won't remember by November 2022. We cannot let that happen, and a bit of hyperbole in that cause is well justified.
The Republicans don’t want a bi-partisan investigation of the insurrection? Fine. See how they like congressional investigations by committees that are led by Democrats. Democrats have majorities in both house. This will be a good time to use them.
Yes; Democrats can proceed with select committees run by one party, but America deserves better.
Yes! Time to push our representatives to organize such committees!
There is one thing that scares me about your concluding remarks...if you replace us with Trumpers it is also marching orders for the "crazies"...except for the idea that there are more of us than there are of them. We must follow Stacey Abrams and make sure that voter turnout is historic for a mid-term election!
Though provoking edition today! Two points came to mind while reading:
1. If Bill Barr were “hypothetically” consistent in his thinking...shouldn’t he have also demanded that the Dark Web reveal the identity of “Q”?
2. We WILL go out in mass to vote...and we WILL get out the vote here in Georgia. The only problem here (and a few other states around the country)is that our Governor has now tied the hands of the Sec of State...if they deem something “might be” wrong...the new law allows a Republican-controlled board to temporarily take over local election offices. I can already guess which urban counties will be targeted...and it’s not the rural one that Marjorie Taylor Green calls home.
Yes, I agree. that is one of the most pernicious aspects of the Georgia legislation. Georgia state legislators can decided that the county election officials are "underperforming" in their jobs. That means any state legislator who doesn't like the results can claim the county election official isn't looking hard enough for votes in favor of the incumbent. What could go wrong with that? And why the heck are state legislators part of the running the election process?
This is the whole point that the media glosses over. They went for the well-orchestrated bait (of water bottles and pizza) to muddy the real intent of the this dangerous law. The intent is that this will be a "pseudo-election". Legislators have no business in a FAIR election process. The phone transcript of Trump telling Raffensburger and Sterling to find the votes...is now written law of the land in Georgia. I am not sure we will have the right chess pieces on the board to recover from this law...but the MASSES will turn out to vote...and will take to the streets if this evil plays out.
I suggest that Democrats, including elected officials, call for DOJ or FBI to label the Republican Party as a domestic terror organization. The idea may sound facetious, but it reflects the bottom line reality of their tactics: send an armed mob to prevent counting of electoral votes and thereby sabotage the peaceful transfer of the presidential office; when counting resumes then vote against certifying the electoral vote; then deny the mob existed, or, if it did, describe it as Antifa or "tourists," while ignoring all the MAGA hats and Trump banners. Next, with 145 dead or injured police and some 400 insurrectionists and armed trespassers under indictment, vote against a commission to investigate the causes that created the mob, motivated their rioting, and the failure(s) of law enforcement or National Guard to respond quickly enough to prevent the mayhem. Their strategy seems to be based on amnesia--their hope that voter won't remember by November 2022. We cannot let that happen, and a bit of hyperbole in that cause is well justified.