Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post, 2/10/2022
To recap, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday the RNC got it wrong. Trump responded by saying McConnell didn’t speak for the party. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), after first scurrying away from a reporter who asked about the resolution, later said he agreed with it. Cringeworthy Trump flunky Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), who got her spot in GOP House leadership after the party dumped Cheney, gave the censure the thumbs-up, too. [BANG! ZOOM! Emphasis added]
2/4/2022 update starts here
Washington Post, 2/5/2022
The “discourse” in question included threatening to hang those who were performing their constitutional duty to certify the electoral college count, trashing the building and smearing feces on the walls.
Original 2/4/2022 post starts here
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New York Times, 2/4/2022
The Republican Party on Friday officially declared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and events that led to it “legitimate political discourse,” and rebuked two lawmakers in the party who have been most outspoken in condemning the deadly riot and the role of Donald J. Trump in spreading the election lies that fueled it.
The Republican National Committee’s voice vote to censure Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City culminated more than a year of vacillation, which started with party leaders condemning the Capitol attack and Mr. Trump’s conduct, then shifted to downplaying and denying it.
On Friday, the party went further in a resolution slamming Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger for taking part in the House investigation of the assault, saying they were participating in “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
The GOP is the party of MAGA sheeple.
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