The Republicans have made being an American a partisan issue. There are now two clear sides. [View all]

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Michael Fanone made news during testimony before the House select committee investigating the January 6 sacking and looting of the United States Capitol. While recounting his experience, which included electrocution “again and again and again with a taser,” thus triggering a heart attack, the Metropolitan police officer said, “I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room, but too many are now telling me that hell doesn’t exist or that hell actually wasn’t that bad.”

Fanone then punctuated the last word in the following sentence by pounding his fist on the table: “The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful.” (Boom!)

Fanone was talking about the indifference of the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. If the Post’s reporting this morning is any indication, the GOP appears bent on proving the point. Sure, it might be disgraceful to show indifference to the men in uniform who put their lives on the line to protect elected officials, but really, who’s got the time to watch a “political charade”? Per the Post:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he was “booked in all these different meetings.” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told reporters he was tied up with a committee hearing. Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who rose to her position after her predecessor was sacked for criticizing Trump’s role in the attack, declined to say whether she watched. Rep. Matthew M. Rosendale (R-Mont.) said he did watch—but only the opening statement from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has joined the panel in defiance of her party, not the officers’ testimony.

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