A hat tip to Atrios at Eschaton for this great recent commentary from Seth Meyers on Wednesday's disaster...
...and Elizabeth Warren hit the nail on the proverbial head again and again with this...
...and Thom Hartmann, as usual, gives us another interesting history lesson on how we got to this point (which Hartmann recorded on 1/5, I should note)...
...and Dem U.S. House Rep Conor Lamb of our beloved commonwealth of PA hasn’t exactly been #1 on my hit parade recently, but kudos to him for this...
...and Nicolle Wallace speaks with Neal Katyal on the 25th Amendment (which I can practically guarantee that “Onward Christian Soldiers” Mike Pence won’t pursue, though Wallace and Katyal are right that people need to go on the record as to whether or not they support removing the Gropenfuhrer once and for all)...
...and Jimmy Kimmel made a serious point about all of this with a bit of humor, though through clenched teeth I’ll admit...
...and Vaush brought plenty of NSFW/H outrage over last Wednesday’s madness in this clip (and yeah, if you’re a Republican and you’re not condemning this, you are indeed part of the problem...and while he was more than a day late and a dollar short, at least this guy did that much)...
Update 1: I need to dive into this a little more, but it looks like Mark Sumner of Daily Kos did a great job of connecting the dots here.
To me (and I’m just a guy with an opinion and this dumb blog of course), it looks to me like we’re going to need some kind of a permanent select House/Senate committee (preferably the House) to look into EVERYTHING that led up to last Wednesday’s attempted coup (and that’s what this was – make no mistake...should probably be two Dems, two Repugs, an historian and/or a Constitutional scholar – paging former President Hopey Changey). And like many others, I wondered about getting rid of the people in the Defense Department including Mark Esper (and staffing them with loyalists to Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence), but I think that played a role too in trying to get the military on board with this (though, to their credit, they certainly didn’t do that, and as noted, all 10 living former Defense Secretaries, including Cheney and Rumsfeld, wrote that Op-Ed opposing it).
Update 2: Such a committee investigating last Wednesday’s attempted coup should morph into a permanent (as already stated) presidential oversight commission run by the U.S. House going back over the last 50 years (would take us to the end of Nixon, at this point). The only caveat is that they wouldn’t be authorized to investigate the presidential administration currently in power, because you have to draw the line somewhere. And yes, I know the temptation would be to politicize the hell out of this (e.g., if Dems run the House, they would look at Republican administrations – which I think is totally called for, by the way – and if Republicans run the House, they would look at Democratic administrations). But after Our Orange Pustule-in-Chief, I think it’s safe to say that we need “guard rails” around the presidency, since our current structure failed us (though it was more the fault of the people in charge than the “structure” itself of course).
...and as long as the MAGA gang has tried to infringe on the copyright of yet another artist as noted here (Laura Branigan this time, who passed in 2004 I should note), I think the following selection is apropos (and why not have an '80s tune on a Friday?).
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