violence in the months to come and another january 6th every four years. cheney is a very odd figurehead for the movement to prosecute the ex presidents attempted coup in the court of public opinion. she provides an interesting case study for the question, what does a politician do when they want to be part of a political party that doesn t want them? i ve covered cheney s political career for almost a decade now. to be honest, i spent much of it viewing her as kind of an object of scorn. i mean, she is a hard right republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, he s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. haiti formally launched her political career by trying to carpet back
republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, she s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. cheney formally launched her political career by trying to carpetbag a wyoming senate seat, despite being born in wisconsin and despite having much of her adult life being spent in virginia. as the intercept reports, cheney launched a campaign to represent wyoming with a facebook post geotagged, mclean, virginia, her real home. she was challenging incumbent wyoming senator mike enzi, a staunch conservative from the right. but he was she was never able to shake the carpetbagger label. or provide a coherent reason for why she was a better choice than nze other than i am a cheney and i wa
accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
Circus and laid out what would half after election day. we ll have fights in the county rooms. this will go all the way to january 20th. we ll put trump in the house of representatives. that s the plan. i have one more legal or political question. do i need to sneak in a break? no, keep going? mike, on the legal, i will guess on my own which is strategic and which is being like a hunting dog. between all of the forces, they know that alito and others have talked about the immunity about rogue they know they may need to channel not to their base their base will go along with anything, but the people that trump needs to win, this sort of vibe that all prosecutions are
Things. the danger isn t the fat dudes in maga hats invading the capitol. it s the brooks brothers women and men in suits that are going to the capitals, the state capitals of the country and changing our voting laws. or changing who gets to actually choose who the electors are. or it s the republican lawyers that are making decisions about how to actually mess up the count. that s the danger. the coup is not going to be a physical coup. it s going to be done, quietly, in the boardroom s, and in the county rooms. that s what we have to be afraid of. do you think these hearings can set the table for preventing that? it s we can t. no matter what, and as cynical as we all may be in this country, i think we do have a common vein that we love democracy. yes. we understand that we are all united in that blood that runs through all of us.