{"id":200259,"date":"2021-05-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/28\/of-course-they-did-6\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T23:15:00","slug":"of-course-they-did-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/28\/of-course-they-did-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course They Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone surprised that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/28\/us\/politics\/capitol-riot-commission-republicans.html\">Mitch McConnell and his Evil Minions\u2122 have filibustered a bipartisan insurrection investigation<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not, and this is a good thing:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>It allows Democrats, if they have the guts, to use this as a hammer against the &#8216;Phants in 2022.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>It allows the House to set up a special select committee that won&#8217;t require Republican votes for a subpoena, so for example, House Minority Leader&nbsp; Kevin McCarthy.<\/li>\n<li>The committee staff won&#8217;t have half their members selected by Republicans and functioning as saboteurs.<\/li>\n<li>The Democrats can set the rules, as opposed to the fiasco of the 911 commission, which never pressed the Bush administration, and, for example, allowed Condoleeza Rice to filibuster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that Democrats seize the opportunity, but I am not holding my breath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone surprised that Mitch McConnell and his Evil Minions\u2122 have filibustered a bipartisan insurrection investigation? I&#8217;m not, and this is a good thing: It allows Democrats, if they have the guts, to use this as a hammer against the &#8216;Phants in 2022.&nbsp; It allows the House to set up a special select committee that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,1287,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-insurrection","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}