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One thought about those testifying at the January 6th hearings that seem to irritate many on this site. Other than Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman (the Georgia poll workers who testified about the harassment they endured from the right wingers) nearly all of those showcased have been Republicans. Further, the committee members have often inquired about their dedication to TFG, religious faith, military service and so on … and I’ll admit, it can be cloying.
Yet I remind myself that — had these hearings been focusing on early events in the last Administration, we might be hearing from a holdover Democrat or (more likely) career civil servants. By the end of the last Administration, though: all that was left were hardcore Republicans, and to learn what took place at the highest levels, we are limited to hearing from those who finally broke ranks. (Sadly).
In addition, the committee members are asking about their political backgrounds because, as Chris Hayes puts it, “Liberals are not the target audience”. Besides providing material to the Justice Department, they are aiming these hearings at the small group of centrists and marginal GOP voters, hoping to change minds. If liberal activists were completely satisfied … it’d be preaching to the choir. While the hearings have no effect on MAGA Nation, there may be hope elsewhere.
Professor Robert Reich is noting that the US is devolving into Red and Blue at an ever faster pace and wondering, What’s the problem if we become two nations? Why not just split? Of his ten points of diversion (all of which are at this link) here are three below:
5. As red states suppress votes, blue states are making it easier to vote.
6. As red states ban the teaching of America’s history of racism, blue states are approving curricula that informs young people in ever greater detail about the horrors of slavery, the genocide of indigenous peoples, the exclusion of Chinese, and the roundup and imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
7. As red states make it more difficult to qualify for unemployment benefits and other forms of public assistance, blue states are making it easier.
Nobody wants to be the first one to charge a former president ….. I predict once the first ... prosecutor … brings that indictment, everybody is going to want to be the second prosecutor to indict Donald Trump.
(c) And Lordy .... there is that tape.
Finally, something non-political: in reading of the death of actor Tony Dow…
….. I did not so much recall the original show … as much as a 1983 two-hour reunion special “Still the Beaver”. In it, the show served-notice immediately that this was new: Beaver and his wife were getting divorced (with a possible custody battle to take place) … while Wally and his wife were having trouble conceiving. All ended well: Beaver’s wife decided to go back to school, saying “You were always the better parent” and Wally’s wife finally did become pregnant.
"Yeah, cut a coupla corners; they'll never kn ... oh hello, Mrs. Cleaver!"
Let’s close with this short blues from Ellen McIlwaine.
Now, on to Top Comments:
(Nothing from the field for this evening)
And from Ed Tracey, your faithful correspondent this evening ........
In the diary by PvtJarHead about the RNC ceasing to pay 45’s legal bills once he announces his re-election bid — antirove sums-up his dilemma.
Next - enjoy jotter's wonderful (and now eternal) *PictureQuilt™* below. Just click on the picture and it will magically take you to the comment featuring that photo.
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