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Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois spoke on the House floor for the final time on Thursday after declining to seek re-election.
Kinzinger, a member of the January 6 committee and one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection following the Capitol riot, has emerged as a key critic of the GOP from within the party.
In his farewell speech, Kinzinger declared that "our democracy is not functioning" and said Republicans have "embraced lies and deceit." Despite not mentioning Trump by name, he made numerous references to the assault on the Capitol.
"Republicans once believed that limited government meant lower taxes and more autonomy," he said. "Today, limited government means inciting violence against government officials."
He also criticized the leadership of the Republican National Committee, which used the phrase "legitimate political discourse" as it moved to censure him and Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming for their participation in the January 6 committee.
"Our leaders today belittle, and in some cases justify attacks on the US Capitol as 'legitimate political discourse,'" Kinzinger added. "We shelter the ignorant, the racist, who only stoke anger and hatred to those who are different than us."
Kinzinger also criticized Democrats for helping to boost election-denying candidates in Republican primaries this year in order to produce weaker general-election nominees, a controversial tactic that some top Democrats publicly defended.
"To my Democratic colleagues, you must too bear the burden of our failures. Many of you have asked me: where are all the good Republicans?" he said. "Over the past two years, Democratic leadership had the opportunity to stand above the fray."
"Instead, they poured millions of dollars into the campaigns of MAGA Republicans, the same candidates Biden called a national security threat, to ensure these good Republicans did not make it out of their respective primaries," Kinzinger continued. "This is no longer politics as usual. This is not a game."
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Three Years ...
Today marks three years since the horrible, violent attempt to overthrow a duly elected election. So much I want to say, but … I’m finding the words just won’t come. Perhaps that is because we are still facing the same threat we faced three years ago, perhaps it is because I am thoroughly disgusted by those, like Margie Greene, who would ‘celebrate’ this day. At any rate, I came across a…
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« Do you support democracy, or do you not support democracy?
That is the one issue on the ballot. Vote accordingly. »
— Adam Kinzinger, former congressman and member of the House January 6th Committee, in conversation Tuesday on NPR's Fresh Air via WHYY in Philadelphia.
Listen to the entire 44-minute conversation here.
Rep. Kinzinger's book "Renegade" is just out.
I agree with him on 2024. Democracy, both in the US and internationally, is THE essential issue in elections at all levels in the US next year.
#usa#democracy#adam kinzinger#house january 6th committee#donald trump#if you wish to preserve democracy then vote democratic#election 2024
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Cheney, Kinzinger Oppose Jordan Becoming Speaker, So He Must Be A Good Choice | The Gateway Pundit | by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal
JORDAN!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!
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House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy served further notice Sunday that his potential speakership will be politically volatile, saying he will try to keep three high-profile Democrats off of certain committees.
Democrats said McCarthy will do whatever his right wing wants him to do because he still lacks the votes to land the speaker's job.
In stumping for the position, McCarthy has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., members of the House Intelligence Committee.
McCarthy and other Republicans have for months said these members' past statements and actions regarding issues like Israel, China and Russia should keep them off these committees.
"I'll keep that promise" to remove them, McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."
Schiff and other Democrats said McCarthy is trying to court support from hard-right conservatives like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. – who was expelled from committees during a 2021 vote of the full House because of her incendiary statements about Democrats.
"I suspect he will do whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do," Schiff said on ABC's "This Week." "He is a very weak leader of his conference, meaning that he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator. And if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees, that’s what they’ll do."
McCarthy is favored to become Speaker of the House when Republicans take over the chamber next year – but it is not yet a done deal.
Conservative Republicans like Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Matt Gaetz of Florida said they will oppose McCarthy. Every vote counts because the GOP majority will likely be no more than 10 seats.
"He does seem to be struggling" to get to the 218 votes necessary to win the speakership, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is expected to be Democratic leader in the next Congress.
"Let's see what happens on January 3," Jeffries said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who is retiring from Congress and ran afoul of McCarthy over the latter's support of Donald Trump, told CNN the presumed speaker has made a lot of promises to Greene and other hard-right conservatives.
Right-wing Republicans won't be happy if McCarthy has to cut deals with Democrats to get essential business done, Kinzinger said, and he could wind up as their political hostage.
"I, frankly, don't think he's going to last very long," Kinzinger said. "Maybe he will prove me wrong. But it's sad to see a man that I think had so much potential just totally sell himself."
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As Trump seeks reelection in 2024, Republicans are divided. Those who still believe in democratic rule, such as former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, have broken with the party but paid a high political price for it. Trump requires absolute fealty, which means kissing the ring of an indicted criminal defendant, one who has made no effort to hide what he plans in a second administration: retribution on his political enemies, a gutting of the entire civil workforce, and expanded powers of the presidency making him answerable to no laws and with no meaningful checks on his authority.(via GOP Undergoing Schism Under Trump And Mike Johnson)
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They Eat Their Own ...
They Eat Their Own …
If you ever wonder why there are few, if any, good people in the GOP, it’s because it is suicide to be a good person in today’s GOP, aka Republican Party. Yes, that’s right, folks … you either play by their rules, or you’re out of the game. The latest example is U.S. Representative Chris Jacobs of New York who had the audacity to say, after speaking about the most recent mass shootings in…
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In large part, his enduring viability as a candidate is due to the fact that the leaders of the Republican Party have time and again put partisanship—and their fear of the monster to whom they have hitched their political wagons—ahead of patriotism. Or their oaths of office. Or even the modicum of human decency that would require renouncing this malevolent lunatic. With a tiny handful of exceptions (thank you former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger) they have refused to condemn even his most heinous acts (insurrection, sexual assault, theft of national secrets).
Ask GOP Debaters if They Support Trump’s Open Fascism
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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) ripped “weak, tiny and scared” former President Donald Trump for trying to “look tough to cover the weakness” with “fascist cosplay.”
Presumptive GOP nominee Trump has in recent days “turned up the volume on his authoritarian message,” Kinzinger wrote in the latest edition of his Substack email newsletter, titled “Trump Stumps With Fascist Cosplay.”
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and you want this man to be President again- what the F is wrong with you people SOB
“The fact that Donald is now selling Bibles is proof that he’s a false prophet for profit.
Pastors beware: you will be held to account for how you led your people. Trump is an abomination to God and our country”
Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger,
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Democrats stand united as McCarthy is ousted.
October 4, 2023
ROBERT B. HUBBELL
Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker of the House on a motion to vacate the chair—a first in our nation’s history. The unprecedented nature of the vote speaks to McCarthy’s unique unfitness, lack of moral character, and ever-present mendacity, as well as to the collapse of the Republican Party. The small margin by which McCarthy lost—eight votes—conceals the deeper division revealed by the defection of 90 Republicans on Saturday’s continuing resolution to fund the government.
McCarthy proved his unique unfitness to serve as Speaker when he made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Trump's ring on January 28, 2021—three weeks after Trump incited the assault on the Capitol.
McCarthy proved his lack of moral character when he voted to oust Liz Cheney from his Republican leadership team for standing up to Trump's treason.
McCarthy proved his venality when he promised to remove Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee to gain votes for the Speakership.
McCarthy proved his untrustworthiness when he empowered a GOP representative to negotiate terms for a joint commission to investigate the events of January 6. When the GOP representative got everything Republicans wanted, McCarthy walked away from the agreement, forcing Democrats to form a special committee without Republicans (except for Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger).
McCarthy proved his lack of integrity when he granted Tucker Carlson exclusive access to surveillance tapes from inside the Capitol on January 6.
McCarthy proved his duplicity when he said that a vote was necessary to open an impeachment inquiry and then opened an impeachment inquiry of President Biden without an authorizing vote.
McCarthy proved his mendacity when he lied to the American people and President Biden about his commitment to funding levels in the 2023-24 budget when making a deal to raise the debt ceiling in May.
Ultimately, McCarthy lost the Speakership because he had lied to everyone—friend and foe alike. No one trusted him. He will forever be a “double asterisk” in the history books—a speaker who was elected after fifteen contentious rounds of voting and the first speaker in our nation’s history to be removed on a motion to vacate. McCarthy deserves the humiliation and opprobrium attached to the inglorious end of his ignominious political career.
But the House Republican caucus also lost on Tuesday. It does not have a governable majority. (It never did.) Despite ridding itself of McCarthy, the House GOP remains hostage to the extremist elements in the caucus, a fact that bodes ill for any effort to pass a budget or keep the government open— let alone pass legislation to advance the interests of the American people.
The “Party of No” has entered a permanent Twilight Zone in which its sole reason for existence is opposition, its only unifying principle is grievance, and its lone tactic is chaos.
It does not matter who Republicans elect as Speaker; the next Speaker will be controlled by eight Republicans who managed to oust McCarthy. Until Republicans acknowledge they do not have a functional majority and must reach out to Democrats to create a governing coalition, every Republican Speaker will be a temporary occupant of the office.
Republicans will go through the motions of electing a speaker capable of governing their caucus. They will fail. In the meantime, Democrats maintained unity and discipline throughout the chaotic tenure of Kevin McCarthy. That is a hopeful sign for future Democratic control of Congress. The most important lesson of McCarthy’s loss on Tuesday is that the only path forward is through the Democratic Party. Tell a friend!
Coda.
When the motion to vacate passed, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry was appointed as acting Speaker under protocols relating to “continuation of government” in the event of a disaster.
Rep. McHenry will likely occupy the “acting” role for ten days (or less) and has little authority other than ensuring the election of the next speaker. But Rep. McHenry’s first act was to order Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi to vacate her private “hideaway” office in the Capitol by Wednesday (a day when Pelosi will be at memorial services for the late Senator Dianne Feinstein. See Politico, McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday.
Although the reason for Rep. McHenry’s communication is unclear, it appears that he wants to claim Nancy Pelosi’s office for himself. Per Politico, the email to Nancy Pelosi said:
“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed,” wrote a top aide on the Republican-controlled House Administration Committee. The room was being reassigned by the acting speaker “for speaker office use,” the email said.
Rep. McHenry’s insulting first act is an inauspicious start to the post-McCarthy interregnum. Let’s hope that someone tells Rep. McHenry that evicting Nancy Pelosi from her private office while she is attending a funeral is a bad look.
#Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter#Robert B. Hubbell#McCarthy#Speaker Mccarthy#motion to vacate#Patrick McHenry#House Republicans#Corrupt GOP#radical GOP
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I guess, this traitor is working for both Russia, and China, now.
"Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Thursday his former colleague, Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard (D), is “crazy” over her comments on the Japanese on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. “This lady is crazy. Wut,” he wrote on the social media platform X, responding to a post from Gabbard about Pearl Harbor on the 82nd anniversary of the World War II attack.
“As we remember Japan’s aggression in the Pacific, we need to ask ourselves this question: is the remilitarization of Japan, which is presently underway, truly a good idea? We need to be careful that shortsighted, self-serving leaders do not end up bringing us again face-to-face with a remilitarized Japan,” Gabbard wrote.
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Former President Trump told his then-Chief of Staff “this is embarrassing,” and “I don’t want people to know that we lost,” after the Supreme Court ruled against him on a key case about the 2020 election, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Hutchinson’s testimony was revealed Thursday in what might be the Jan. 6 committee’s final public hearing.
The lawsuit considered by the Supreme Court in December 2020 was filed in Texas and challenged the presidential election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the Jan. 6 panel, said Trump regarded the legal action as “his last chance at success in the courts.”
On Dec. 11, 2020, the Supreme Court said it would not take up the case.
Hutchinson was present for a conversation between Trump and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows the day the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit, she told the panel in testimony presented Thursday.
“The President was fired up about the Supreme Court decision,” Hutchinson said during a previous deposition conducted behind closed doors.
“The President, just raging about the decision and how it’s wrong, and why didn’t we make more calls, and just, his typical anger outburst at this decision,” she added.
Hutchinson said she and Meadows crossed paths with Trump in the White House when the pair was leaving a Christmas party in the residence.
“He had said something to the effect of, ‘I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark, this is embarrassing, figure it out, we need to figure it out, I don’t want people to know that we lost,’” Hutchinson said.
The panel also presented an email sent from a Secret Service agent the day the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit.
“Just FYI. POTUS is pissed — breaking news — Supreme Court denied his law suit. He is livid now…,” the email reads.
#us politics#news#donald trump#the hill#trump administration#house select committee#capitol riot investigation#cassidy hutchinson#mark meadows#us secret service#us supreme court#scotus#2020 election#2022#rep. adam kinzinger
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