Adam Kinzinger is looking better and better every day:

[George II]

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. I think I'm falling in love

[madaboutharry]

2. He still insists he is a republican.

I’m waiting for the epiphany when he realizes that the Republican Party no longer exists.

Kinzinger is a good man. I wish him well on the rocky road he is traveling.

[obamanut2012]

5. He is, a hardliner

[madaboutharry]

7. Two things can be true at the same time.

He is very conservative, a political world view I will never understand. But I think one can still be a decent person and a conservative at the same time. He is not a hateful person.

[George II]

9. +1 Being conservative doesn't make one a bad person. I used to say years ago, before the toxicity..

...of the "two sides", that Democrats and republicans really want the same result, but they way they want to achieve that is different.

Democrats want to get there by reinforcing the good in people.
republicans want to get there by suppressing the bad in people.

But again, that was years ago, long before the polarized society we have today.

[obamanut2012]

10. He is anti LGBT rights, anti-abortion rights

Voted to repeal the ACA, and refused to impeach Trump the first time, along with lots of other RWNJ stuff.

He is not a traitor, and I respect him for that. But, a decent person cannot be against basic human and civil rights. Hopefully, he may evolve some.

[Bucky]

11. You can't compartamentalize with these people

He's an honorable man and he supports the principles of democracy. We can share a country with him. You wouldn't like him running the House Ways and Means Committee. Not that he'll ever have that chance now.

[TxGuitar]

3. investigating the "security posture"

must make some Rs nervous, as in who ordered the lighter security, who declined to send the Guard in, etc. They're gonna wish they didn't go down that path.

[George II]

4. It was all in a letter posted in response to this tweet. I posted it as a separate OP but here it is

Acting Secretary of Defense, probably on orders from trump himself, is the culpable individual:

[UpInArms]

8. Contrast to this

Where there are no flagpoles or other things that can be weaponizing … no flak jackets, no threatening garb …

[The Magistrate]

14. That Is A Pretty Damning Document, Sir

The man needs to account for it under oath.

There is no room for doubt the Trump administration stripped the Capitol of its usual defenses against unruly crowds, and did so while assembling a mob of violent insurrectionists to assault the tallying of electoral votes.

[George II]

15. Yes it it. It's the "smoking gun" (or as trump would say "smocking gun") that blows up the claim....

...that it was Nancy Pelosi's fault that security around the Capitol wasn't prepared.

I'm sure the committee is going to get around to the fact that help from the National Guard was requested several times DURING the riot and was refused.

Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin are on that committee. I'm sure their staffs are putting together a comprehensive list of witnesses and a rock solid line of interrogation.

If it wasn't such a serious situation this could be fun to watch. But heads are going to roll and trump people are going to jail.

[Ligyron]

21. Not so much as a helmet for protection.

That’s borderline criminal right there.

[The Magistrate]

6. Should He Run For The Senate, Sir

It will remain my duty to vote against him, and I will, but I doubt I would enjoy it much. Voting against Rauner and Oberweis was great fun, and even voting against Kirk was a pleasure.

[murielm99]

12. Only if he loses.

[Chipper Chat]

13. Cheney/Kinsinger 2024.

Can those two obliterate the QrumOP?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

16. Thanks for doing your job, keep it up

nothing more nothing less.

It shouldn't take this much courage to tell the truth.

[iluvtennis]

17. Kinzinger cares about complying with Constitution & maintaining our democracy. True patriot. n/t

[Jerry2144]

18. I can respect this congressman

It doesn’t mean I would ever vote for him. But I respect him.

[wnylib]

19. Agree. To me, he's like John McCain.

I disagreed with McCain's political views, but respected his integrity.

[JHB]

20. Apt comparison

[Duppers]

23. Great catch!

👍

[bucolic_frolic]

22. In my view, he's from Illinois

and carrying the Lincoln roots of the Republican Party.

Smart people - historians, political scientists, reasonable old time Republicans - know the path the GOP is on has reached maximum insanity. It's not sustainable, not even if fascism succeeds. So in my view a rebirth of the GOP is in the incubator. They may not assume power for 15 or 20 years. But they will endure.

I sure disagree with most of Liz Cheney's policy views, especially on the environment. But she is a realist. She knows what's going on.