Hey, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) get your stories straight about how you feel about the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
That was the one aimed at stopping the official 2020 election final certification by a mob who shouted: “Hang Mike Pence.”
That is if he didn’t do
what Trump said he had to do. That was to stop the official final election count
in order to keep Trump in office proving that he did not lose to Joe Biden by 8
million votes.
Two articles below offer a rundown on you two and your flakey hypocrisy and from other sources, too.
These two stories are here from The
Hill and The
Daily Beast:
Your double talking is here as a reminder as you both dodge,
duck, deflect, distract and deny January 6 even happened – here, ponder and chew
on this including your own words (not mine – yours):
Your silence as Senate and House GOP leaders about the
Saturday (September 18) rally, which Trump has disavowed, shows that both of you are reluctant to pick any fights with Trump supporters who believe
the 2020 election was stolen, despite the lack of any compelling evidence (with nearly
50 Courts ruling against Trump).
Sen. McConnell: You took to the senate floor on that very sad day and said: “We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats from an unhinged crowd.”
Rep. McCarthy: You told reporters that you didn't know of any members of the House GOP conference planning to attend the September 18 rally, but you haven't disavowed or criticized it, at least publicly.
Also, recall that McCarthy used much stronger
language on January 6, when he denounced the violent protests as “appalling and
un-American.”
But, then McCarthy later announced that he would oppose
legislation to create an independent bipartisan commission to fully investigate the Capitol attack, even
though the deal creating this commission was four months in the making and
brokered by a House GOP committee leader NY Rep. John Katko. More on this
from McCarthy on that subject:
The bill passed the House with some GOP support, and it was,
after all, partly written by Rep. John Katko (R-NY), the top Republican on the
House Homeland Security Committee, and before McCarthy came out in opposition
to the bill.
A senior GOP aide said: “McCarthy knows a commission creates a conflict with Trump so he threw his ranking member (Katko) under the bus.”
Katko reportedly used
that phrase himself in a closed-door GOP conference meeting sarcastically
saying to McCarthy: “Thanks for not throwing me under the bus, Kevin.”
McCarthy’s grand calculus is largely determined by his
conference, and House Republicans are still wary of crossing Trump in any way.
That is why many GOP members remain uncomfortable talking about January 6 — though some
are now propagating a complete fiction about the Capitol attack in
service to Trump and his preferred narrative about the attack.
McCarthy has staked his leadership on Trump in a way
McConnell hasn’t. He slowly walked back his claim that the former president
bore responsibility for violence on January 6, and now touts Trump as a top
partner in reclaiming the House majority.
McCarthy has another complication unique to him: He also could
be called as a witness in any comprehensive probe of the attack. The minority
leader spoke with Trump as the mob stormed the Capitol, and the president told
him the insurrectionists were doing more for him than he was, according to Rep.
Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA).
Other GOP-related opinions:
Darrell West, Director of Governance Studies at the
Brookings Institution said: “The events of January 6 remain very contentious,
but a lot of Republicans view the individuals who participated that day as
heroes who were standing up for election integrity. Given how widespread that
view is among Republicans, it puts a lot of pressure on GOP candidates to go
soft on January 6, or embrace what they did. Politicians worry about being on
the wrong side of public opinion within their own party.”
A few other Republican strategists and independent political
experts say that the question of whether President Biden stole the White House –
as in Trump “Big Lie” claim now widely debunked – will likely become a rallying
cry in next year's Republican primaries.
My 2 Cents: All that above
serves as a reminder of just how bad a shape that this “new” Trump owned and
operated GOP really is.
Not much more to add – but
I’m sure a lot more will be forthcoming – so, stay tuned.
Thanks for stopping by.
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