Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, announced Thursday he picked Rep. Liz Cheney as the panel’s vice chair — further elevating the Wyoming Republican just as the panel begins intensely investigating the role of Donald Trump and his allies may have played in the assault.
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, highly pissed off at this middle finger from Cheney, urged a boycott.
Go, Liz Cheney! Let us celebrate small victories in our struggle against the on-going political takeover by Republicans, who have become our very own American Taliban.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Is it just symbolism to pick a Republican? What about so many long time serving Democrat House members who have done very good work for decades for our causes? How did Cheney become more important than them to suddenly deserve the vice-chairwoman-ship? What if Cheney starts campaigning again Democrats in 2022 and 2024 or worse yet, she starts talking against the Committee and against any decision to indict any Republican Housemembers involved in Jan 6th? Uh?
Why is Cheney is so important now? It certainly is not going to make the committee look bi-partisan because Kevin McCarthy has vented enough that it is not. We know which big poisonous snake she is the daughter of who all Democrats hate to-date? He is called the Darth Vader. We are just feeding more milk to these snakes.
I think Democrats are not just good at politics and winning elections.
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I agree that most of the time Democrats are not as good at politicking as Republicans.
In this instance it is a matter of legitimacy for any Congressional committee to have a chairman of the majority party and a vice chairman of the minority party. It is probably a requirement in the house rules.
But it is such a poor attempt of giving legitimacy. What we need the Democrats to do is start showing some spine. We lost the Supreme Court, we lost most civil rights, we are about to lose the thin majorities in both chambers, the Republicans are bringing us to our knees on voting rights and infrastructure bills... in spite of we holding the White House, the Senate and the House. What are our leaders good for? I am sure if the Republicans had all three houses with with this thin majority they would be far ahead on passing bills and pushing their agenda than our nice guys have done so far. Our old frail general Biden does not give the leadership that inspires. He is busy being Mr. Nice Guy and I don't like it a bit.
I agree with you all around, Mr. Sinner. However, Cheney's assignment is VERY important because she's sticking to the GOP leadership which is all in for spreading Trump's big lies (multiple). At least we have a couple of Republicans willing to stand up for the obvious truth.
Ok, let us see who is going to use who. I hope we win with this tactic but pragmatically thinking our being nice and cooperative has not paid off well with the Republicans in the past. Obama said in 2011 that the Republicans treated me like a dog. We have not learned the lesson and don't pound on the opponents as a united front like they do to us. We all know what Mitch McConnell did to Obama in his second term. He took Obama's teeth and nails out.
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