{"id":44174,"date":"2022-01-06T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44174"},"modified":"2022-01-06T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:46:56","slug":"politicizing-what-shouldnt-be-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44174","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing What Shouldn’t Be Political"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happened on January 6th last year was wrong. It wasn’t an insurrection by any stretch of the imagination and it wasn’t a threat to our democracy (we are not a democracy–we are a representative republic), but it was wrong. We don’t know if there were government instigators in the crowd (it seems very possible that there were), and we don’t really know a lot of the details of what happened. Much of the video from that day is still being kept from the public. We do know that the House Democrats are planning to turn the day into something reminiscent of the Paul Wellstone funeral<\/a>. They do this at their own risk. The public is growing weary of the double standard on protests, and it appears that the Republicans plan on fighting back.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, The Western Journal<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

As Democrats and their mainstream media allies lather up<\/a> to commemorate Thursday\u2019s anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion like it was the firing on Fort Sumter, House Republicans this week are accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of deliberately stonewalling the release of information about her own role in the events of the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And with the Democrats\u2019 hold on power in the House looking shaky<\/a> ahead of this year\u2019s midterm elections, Pelosi\u2019s partisans should be getting nervous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the committee\u2019s clear purpose is to smear former President Donald Trump and his supporters, the country might be getting a different view of how Pelosi and her party are actually operating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a letter released Monday, Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, the ranking minority member of the House Administration Committee, called out Pelosi for refusing repeatedly over the past year to cooperate with their requests for information from House officers who answer directly to the speaker\u2019s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cThere is irony in the fact that at the same time House Democrats are holding witnesses in criminal contempt of Congress for raising genuine questions of legal privilege, you continue to obstruct Republican access to House records relating to the security preparedness of the Capitol complex,\u201d Davis wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIrony\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to be quite the right word here, though Davis might have been trying to maintain a veneer of civility in the correspondence. \u201cArrogance\u201d describes it much better. \u201cDishonesty,\u201d \u201ccynicism,\u201d and \u201cnaked abuse of power\u201d fit the bill as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It would have been nice if there had been a bi-partisan investigation into Capitol security. However, at this point that is probably impossible.<\/p>\n

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