That 35 GOP House members voted for the 1-6 commission is quite the good news. Many pundits were predicting a lot fewer than that. I thought the number would be somewhere in the teens, to be frank. And this happened despite opposition from McCarthy and McConnell. Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic, but could this be the slow but sure return of sanity and principles to the GOP(and gradual distancing from Trump)? Probably premature to think this way, but at this point, I'll accept whatever progress we can get. So I'm pleased with the 35 GOP House members that voted Yea.
Ah, I almost completely forgot about Cynthia McKinney until you mentioned her name in the last paragraph of your column. She was certainly very interesting to say the least. Hank Johnson did defeat her in the primary for her House seat, and while he has his moments, he doesn't come close to the eccentric nature of McKinney. She was also pretty far to the left politically, and was pretty brash in expressing those views. Forget about AOC and "the Squad". McKinney was the Squad before there ever was one. If anything, it is probably Marjorie Taylor Greene that will dethrone her to become the new congressional champ of bizarreness and weirdness.
I suspect an investigation would yield a lot less than the 9/11 commission that only shuffled agencies around (not for the better) and increased the management overhead. All the barriers to effective cross-agency intelligence and coordination remain in place. Effective leadership might could change that but the embedded bureaucrats, phony whistle blowers and leakers with the help of the media would certainly make it a tough slog. Trump failed and Biden would fail. Most likely such a commission would be like the Mueller investigation where he turned the process over to rabid democrats who were out to get their political enemy. Mueller's testimony proved he was not in the loop. I know never-Trumps thought Mueller would be the exorcist who chased away the demon that had taken control of the nation's soul.
No way you find 10 in the senate.
That 35 GOP House members voted for the 1-6 commission is quite the good news. Many pundits were predicting a lot fewer than that. I thought the number would be somewhere in the teens, to be frank. And this happened despite opposition from McCarthy and McConnell. Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic, but could this be the slow but sure return of sanity and principles to the GOP(and gradual distancing from Trump)? Probably premature to think this way, but at this point, I'll accept whatever progress we can get. So I'm pleased with the 35 GOP House members that voted Yea.
Ah, I almost completely forgot about Cynthia McKinney until you mentioned her name in the last paragraph of your column. She was certainly very interesting to say the least. Hank Johnson did defeat her in the primary for her House seat, and while he has his moments, he doesn't come close to the eccentric nature of McKinney. She was also pretty far to the left politically, and was pretty brash in expressing those views. Forget about AOC and "the Squad". McKinney was the Squad before there ever was one. If anything, it is probably Marjorie Taylor Greene that will dethrone her to become the new congressional champ of bizarreness and weirdness.
I suspect an investigation would yield a lot less than the 9/11 commission that only shuffled agencies around (not for the better) and increased the management overhead. All the barriers to effective cross-agency intelligence and coordination remain in place. Effective leadership might could change that but the embedded bureaucrats, phony whistle blowers and leakers with the help of the media would certainly make it a tough slog. Trump failed and Biden would fail. Most likely such a commission would be like the Mueller investigation where he turned the process over to rabid democrats who were out to get their political enemy. Mueller's testimony proved he was not in the loop. I know never-Trumps thought Mueller would be the exorcist who chased away the demon that had taken control of the nation's soul.