Did you mean a “bipartisan Congressional committee?”
That was, of course, what it was set out to be, but the GOP had little interest in participating. Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are the only two Republicans on the committee – both of them voted to impeach Trump, and they are both on the outs from GOP leadership for their stances. As noted earlier, Cheney has been ostracized from her state’s GOP organization, and Kinzinger has announced that he will not be seeking re-election next year.
It’s still a bipartisan committee if it includes sane Republicans – rather than the conspiracy-believing nutjobs they wanted to put in. It’s like they want to include proctologists in a brain surgery.
She seems to (correctly) understand that the only hope for the GOP is to burn down the existing GQP so that the remaining relatively rational members can rebuild.
Personally, I find it both more likely and preferable that the GQP burn to the ground and leave the way clear for a new two-party system formed by fissioning the existing Democratic Party into its moderate-conservative and progressive factions (similar to the dynamics after the Federalist and Whig collapses).
When the head is up the ass, it’s the only choice.
:golf clap: that just made my day, thank you! 
I was hoping someone would comment on my analogy. 
It was a talented straight line.
I doubt it. 95% of voters already know what they think about what happened Jan. 6, and 95% of the other 5% won’t be paying attention.
To my mind, in this analogy Cheney is a proctologist. Not someone you want leading brain surgery, but at least someone with a medical background who understands how the body works. On the same scale, your typical GOP congressperson is a Walmart cashier.
Mark Meadows’ PowerPoint about how to work the coup has been leaked.
Two click rule applies (I’m assuming): first link takes you to a tweet which explains this, and the tweet itself has a link to the PowerPoint.
This way, if you’re not comfortable downloading the document, you can at least read the react:
Fuckin’ A, this is incredible, especially the slide entitled ‘Count-the-Ballots Top Level Plan’.
Yes, the content is bizarre, but I’ll just add also that this is one of the most unprofessional looking PowerPoint Presentations I’ve ever seen. High School students routinely do better.
I’ll bet he stood by the screen with a stick and read every slide out loud.
If it does not have a slide that explicitly says:
- “Storm the capital with goons, hang Pence, Kill Pelosi”|
- ??
- Profit!
Then it’s not a “smoking gun”
What is the provenance of this document? How do we know Mark Meadow made it or what purpose it was intended for?
The penultimate slide is a watermarked picture. If this is an authentic document it means the Whitehouse Chief of Staff was googling images to include in his slide deck, and not paying for them. Small potatoes in the grand scheme, but just more mind-blowing incompetence at the highest levels.
The document itself is part of the email archive which meadows released to the January 6th committee. The URL attached to it is the archive URL for the House of Representatives.
All it proves is that Meadows is a conspiracy believing fool who believes absolute lies, and does a shitty job making powerpoints.
The first point had been pretty definitively proved well before this, I’d say.
It was a qualification for the job, tbh.
In all the history of Powerpoint, has anyone ever made a good powerpoint?