Excellent article, but it skips two of the underpinnings of Repub cowardice.

Two big reasons why some Repub senators won't vote to convict:

1. the kompromat

2. the money

Many of them have big, big secrets to hide, secrets that might be revealed in retaliation for any vote to convict. They also receive oodles of money from some sources they would rather not have come under great scrutiny, sources that would dry up in a heartbeat if they rock the boat.

Those are two reasons that loom much larger than the 'base' of trump voters or even their own sordid bigotries.

All of the Senators present at the Jan 5th 'War Council' should be named.

There's no way they should be voting on the guilt or innocence of trump's actions if they are involved themselves.

Lovely post, Sympthsical.

Biden was not at the top of my list at the beginning of the primaries either, though I never picked a single favorite. I had a feeling he would end up being the top runner though, and eventually was so relieved when he did. It seemed obvious toward the end that he's the one we needed. When he picked Kamala as his running mate, that was when my confidence in Joe locked into place.

It's early days, but so far he's exceeding my wildest dreams. There are going to be bumps along the way, but if he can continue pushing things along with a steady hand, we are all going to be in good shape and the country is going to recover from the trump nightmare.

I definitely had my doubts about Schumer also. Again, so far he is doing very well. Yay!

I have no doubt the FBI is taking this seriously,

and will figure out just how everything went down and who was responsible. I agree with you. The FBI is going to get the job done. My issue is whether the US public will ever be fully informed, or at least informed enough that the guilty parties are publicly exposed and charged, all of them. It's easy to get caught up in the good vibes when seeing so many of the little soldiers get scooped up day after day.

That's great. Here's a sincere, 'good job!' for that. This is a huge investigation, and they are working hard.

But I want the FBI to find and charge the people who planned and funded this coup, knowing full well what they were doing. I want to see the Congressional reps who knew beforehand, the ones who helped whip up the useful rabble, the ones who were not afraid during the insurrection -- I want to see them held accountable too.

Heartfelt and sincere. I got teary-eyed.

Good for Rep. Phillips, for the epiphany and for sharing it.

Gee, this sounds familiar.

It's stochastic terrorism as well.

Greene may not dirty her own hands by pulling the trigger, but she's given the idea to someone else, and is encouraging it with her words and attitude.

Damning with faint praise.

It was so nice when things quieted down after trump got kicked off of Twitter.

Notice that horrible screeching sound? It's BACK.

Somebody over at Twitter needs to recognize that this is the exact same poison. It's almost as though trump has a mouthpiece to speak for him again, isn't it?

This type of incitement is going to go on and on, poisoning the daily discourse. I'm all for freedom of expression, but allowing this nutbar to continue trump's pattern of inciting unrest and violence with crazy lies is dangerous.

It needs to stop.

Turning off her Twitter account isn't going to cancel Greene. She can buy a web domain and put whatever crazy nonsense she likes on it. There is no reason for any social media company to allow this type of dangerous noise, especially not from an elected official. Suspend this crazy woman, Twitter. For all our sakes, just do it.


eta - needless to say, she should have no place in Congress either. Good grief.

"a bullet to the head would be quicker"

to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to Greene. For that one statement alone, she proves she is unfit to serve in government, much less in the House of Representatives. This piece cuts right to the point: Republicans are not acknowledging that Greene said this and have not reprimanded her for it. They aren't acknowledging that politics by violence or threat of assassination is wrong, and that the violence on Jan 6 could have cost some representatives their lives, or that the mob threatened to hang their own Vice President. It's despicable.