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(32,934 posts)elias7
(4,030 posts)onecaliberal
(32,934 posts)gordianot
(15,248 posts)DFW
(54,451 posts)That's why elections matter. We need representatives who will say this out loud, on the record, for the record.
McCarthy can squirm all he wants, but for the rest of time, historians can go back and find these words in the Congressional Record. They will never be unsaid.
Entered into recorded history, and useful in the immediate.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Martin68
(22,915 posts)calimary
(81,546 posts)What else could we do about it and/or with it, to keep shoving it in his face?
No rest. No denying. No ignoring. No escaping.
republianmushroom
(13,767 posts)Let McCarthy listen.
IcyPeas
(21,925 posts)ShazzieB
(16,569 posts)I think it's a safe bet that McGovern is under no illusions regarding who will listen or care. This is worth doing regardless.
Getting this into the Congressional Record creates a record for posterity.
Marthe48
(17,054 posts)Mike Gravel (Dem Alaska) read The Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. His effort was and is notable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_v._United_States#:~:text=8%20External%20links-,History,reading%20and%20analyzing%20the%20report.
Thank you, Representavie Jim McGovern (DEM, of course) for your courage and foresight!
markodochartaigh
(1,162 posts)When the percentage of people who hate the truth when the facts are against them, plus the percentage of people who don't care about the truth one way or the other is greater than the percentage of people who love the truth and follow the facts wherever they lead, democracy is in danger. Fish and oligarchies rot from the head, democracy rots from the heart.
mobeau69
(11,163 posts)TeamProg
(6,310 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,174 posts):Go to. www.help.senate.gov
This hearing is just 2 hour 17 minutes long. Past and future hearings are listed.
I'm just 30 minutes into it.
MayReasonRule
(1,463 posts)mwb970
(11,368 posts)Funny thing is, I kind of agree with them.