Conservative National Review Calls GOP 'Morally Repellent' For Latest Jan. 6 Response
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Conservative National Review Calls GOP 'Morally Repellent' For Latest Jan. 6 Response
The magazine slashed the RNC for censuring Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Friday for daring to serve on the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Particularly startling, in censuring the lawmakers, the RNC described the attack on the Capitol as “ legitimate political discourse .” Some 140 police officers were injured when the mob stormed the Capitol that day and more than 740 people have been arrested in conjunction with the riot.
“The action of the mob on January 6 was an indefensible disgrace,” the Review flatly declared in its editorial. “It is deserving of both political accountability and criminal prosecution. Aspects of it are also fit subjects for a properly conducted congressional inquiry. It is wrong to minimize or excuse what happened that day.”
The RNC’s massive misstep in labeling the Capitol action “legitimate political discourse” is “political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics,” the Review noted.
It will be “used against hundreds of elected Republicans who were not consulted” in the drafting of the wording and “do not endorse its sentiment,” the magazine added.
“The RNC bought the entire party a bounty of bad headlines and easy attack ads,” the Review concluded. “It did so for no good purpose, and its action will only encourage those who see riots as legitimate political discourse. A mistake, and worse, a shame.”
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
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The RNC’s massive misstep in labeling the Capitol action “legitimate political discourse” is “political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics,” the Review noted.
It will be “used against hundreds of elected Republicans who were not consulted” in the drafting of the wording and “do not endorse its sentiment,” the magazine added.
“The RNC bought the entire party a bounty of bad headlines and easy attack ads,” the Review concluded. “It did so for no good purpose, and its action will only encourage those who see riots as legitimate political discourse. A mistake, and worse, a shame.”
While they are correct, the GOP are morally repellent, it was right wing rags like the National Review who have made them so.
This is like the holding tank of a porta-potty calling the urinal "dirty" and "gross".
I don't think the NR was as morally repellent when it was founded 60+ years ago.
They obviously don't like trmp
Buckley was one of those conservatives that was respected by both sides of the political debate, IMO.
Not really. See him and Gore Vidal on Dick Cavett.
Think about that conversation. Vidal was a very far left liberal. Buckly was not a centrist. I bet that conversation was a hoot
William F. Buckley was fucking hilarious!
He ran for Mayor in NYC (Conservative Party candidate).
His platform was to put in bike paths (I'm guessing the bike paths would have been on platforms too).
U.S. Capitol Police 'betrayed by their leadership' on Jan. 6, top police union official says
“Those officers out there were betrayed on a number of levels,” Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, the police union whose members include officers from the U.S. Capitol Police, said in an interview for the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast .
“They were betrayed by their leadership on that day, because they were sent out ... unprepared and unknowing of the level of force and weren’t prepared in terms of the equipment that they went out with and the strategies that they employed to deal with the overwhelming and totally hostile force that addressed them.”
Pasco’s comments were among the strongest yet from the police union about the riot at the U.S. Capitol last year that left 140 officers injured , including some with head wounds, cracked ribs and smashed spinal disks. One officer, Brian Sicknick of the Capitol Police, died from strokes after being attacked by the mob. Other officers died by suicide after defending the Capitol that day.
Pasco cited what he called “abundant, ample information” from U.S. intelligence and law enforcement sources about possible violence that day that was never passed along to the rank and file. “The officers were never apprised of the potential for the kind of event that occurred that day,” he said. “And in that sense, the fact that they were overwhelmed is due in at least some part to the fact that they were unprepared for the assault.”
But Pasco did not restrict his criticism to the leadership of the Capitol Police. “And then, after the fact, [they] were betrayed to a degree by ... the Congress of the United States,” he added. “They’re the people that they look to for their training, their equipment, the leadership, and so forth that puts them in a position to do the extraordinarily important things that they’re called upon to do. ... They were betrayed by the people they were protecting. And an awful lot of people have lost their jobs, or their careers have been ruined by what happened that day.”
Good God, the irony of that post is earth shattering.
Hilarious!
It must feel good when the new boss says you can post irrelevant signs everywhere.
Who's the new boss?
Same as the old boss?
Who was 1984 about again?
Like Dan Rather Not Tell the Truth has anything valid to say about anything... Fired from a 40+ year career replacing the greatest newsman in history for making up complete false stories trying to influence a presidential election...
Who your hero's are says a lot about you...
Ironic in that two of the sources I find most disgusting agreeing with each other. They are both at the far end of their respective scales of bias right and left.
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The RNC’s massive misstep in labeling the Capitol action “legitimate political discourse” is “political malpractice of the highest order coming from people whose entire job is politics,” the Review noted.
It's nice to know there are still some sane Republicans.
An endangered species
There's some out there. We just have to coax them out with steak and bourbon
Yes? Did someone call me?
Dinner's ready, Tacos!
Here's your cocktail
The Lincoln Project.
Lincoln Report?
I guess to other TDS driven lunatics they look that way. By they way, they are not Republicans. Republicans will not hire them, work with them, or associate with them in any way.
They are bought and paid for by Democrats- that is all you need to know.
Link?
The National Review? The conservative National Review. Let's see. They brought us Supply Side Economics, Iran Contra, Tax cuts, more tax cuts, Grenada, Old Pineapple Face, Noriega, First Gulf War, Second Gulf War, more tax cuts, Homeland Security, Patriot Act, more tax cuts, a lot of missing taxpayers' money in the ME, more tax cuts and finally culminating in the NY Flim Flam Man infesting the WH.
Yeah. The conservative National Review.
The shear dumbassery of this comment defies all logic. Which party didn't condemn riots by their left wing Brown Shirts for two years? Which party worked to get their criminals released on bail; and get charges dropped? Which party coin the term, "Mostly peaceful protests"?
The author is a flaming moron. Democrats want to attack Republicans over Jan 6th? They will get it back 100 fold for the BLM/Antifa riots. We have the Democrats own words to use against them endlessly over it.