Legitimate Political Discourse Redefined
The Republican National Committee today censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the congressional hearings on the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, alleging that the actions of those in the protest were ‘legitimate political discourse’. Maybe the RNC didn’t watch the tourists scaling the walls of the Capitol, smashing in doors and windows, calling for Pelosi and Pence to be hanged, stealing laptops and documents, threatening the Capitol police and causing bodily harm to some. Maybe they missed the deaths of a few of the officers. Maybe they witnessed a different attack on the Legislature than I did. Some other footage maybe from some 3rd world country.
The RNC doesn’t need an investigation. The RNC has decided that the folks who invaded the halls of Congress were simply protestors exercising their right to disagree with the election results that declared Donald J. Trump the loser in the 2020 presidential election. What’s the big deal? Nancy and Mike weren’t lynched. No legislator was castrated or raped. Nobody was killed or mutilated, so why make a federal case over this? Go home, everybody, nothing to see here. No need to conduct a sham investigation into what preceded this happy tourist event, right? Just some good American citizens smashing their way into the Capitol to register their disagreements. What could be wrong with that?
Call me a Liberal Stooge and slap me with my battered hat, but c’mon, Legitimate Political Discourse?? Maybe if I was an Oath Keeper or a Proud Boy, but this is the Republican National Committee we’re talking about here, not the Neo-Nazis. Or … maybe we are. At some point we have to take a good hard look at these people. If you quack like a duck, if you smell like a duck, if you defecate like a duck, well, maybe, just maybe, you are a duck. Legitimate Public Discourse?? You sound like a Nazi, you smell like one and by god, I suspect you might just be one. The Republican Party just crossed a line that I can’t see a way to forgive. That was no tourist protest January 6th. That was a putsch. Quack quack.
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I just have one question.
If January 6th was an opportunity for Republican lawmakers to engage in legitimate political discourse with their constituents, why did they run as fast as their feet would carry them down into an undisclosed location under the Capitol? Where they cowered in fear from normal American citizens carrying assorted weapons while dressed in flak jackets, camo, military gear, and occasionally the decorative remnants of animals?
What you and many of our fellow Left Leaners fail to understand is that our Republican colleagues were primarily fearful of the Capitol Police who, you might remember, had already shot and killed an innocent tourist outside their chambers. An unfortunate misunderstanding by all of a patriot who fervently wanted to see the proceedings of her Congress at a wee closer distance than from behind a closed door. Obviously they feared for their own lives at the hands of a police force run amok. If only they had trusted their constituents, perhaps this misunderstanding would never have risen to the boiling point it has at this juncture.