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What Gohmert says is absolutely wrong. I have spoken personally with Capitol Police officers who said they had pulled guns from rioters who broke the Capitol on January 6th.
I am expecting more details on how many firearms / what types of firearms would come out in the 1/6 investigation https://t.co/tZ6uBgGJvB
– Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) May 14, 2021
Charlie Sykes / Bulwark:
Masks off! Bring your vaccination records with you now.
That strange feeling you experienced yesterday afternoon? Liberation? Euphoria? Real excitement?
Shortly after 2 EDT, CDC director Rochelle Walensky stated:
When you are fully vaccinated you can start doing the things you stopped doing due to the pandemic. We have all longed for that moment when we can return to a sense of normalcy.
It’s been so long since we’ve received these types of messages that it took a while to process: What things are you doing? Nearly everything. When? Now.
Shannon Bond / NPR:
Only 12 people are behind most of the vaccination scams on social media, research shows
“The ‘Disinformation Dozen’ produces 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms,” said Imran Ahmed, chairman of the Center for Countering Digital Hate identified The accounts.
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Ethan Nordean, the proud boy’s leader, hit Trump on January 20 when he realized he would likely go to jail for the ex-president, prosecutors announced last night. pic.twitter.com/JX1MvvsGR2
– Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 14, 2021
CNN:
Congress Democrats have a 100% vaccination rate
Democratic lawmakers in both houses of Congress have a 100% vaccination rate against Covid-19, a CNN poll from Capitol Hill found this week, which clearly outperforms Republicans in the House and Senate and illustrates the partisan divide over the pandemic.
For Republicans, at least 44.8% of the House of Representatives and at least 92% of the Senators are vaccinated, according to CNN.
These must be Mike DeWine voters.
Patricia Murphy / AJC:
Telling the truth about a lie
During a House hearing about the attack on the US Capitol, US MP Andrew Clyde read from a prepared statement to resolve issues with people who describe the attack as “insurrection.”
“There was no uprising,” said the newly crowned Republican from Athens. “And calling it a riot is a bold lie, in my opinion.”
The Congressman went on to say that the video from that day showed people walking in an orderly fashion through the Capitol ground floor.
“If you didn’t know that the TV footage was a January 6 video, you’d actually think it was a normal tourist visit,” he said
Clyde’s comments cannot be accepted or ignored. Police officers were attacked, beaten, knocked down and sprayed with bear spray. 140 were injured. Two committed suicide.
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Many people may wonder if there are 8 breakthrough vaccinated cases in the Yankees. Is this evidence that the vaccines are not as effective as we thought they were?
The short answer is no. A short thread: https://t.co/ByauT2igH7
– Zach Binney (@binney_z) May 13, 2021
Politico:
Riot revisionism, hallway aggression, crushed alliances: the house is approaching a Cold War
To the Democrats, it seems that the Republicans are trying to gloss over the facts of the insurrection at every turn.
A sizeable fraction of the House’s GOP is downplaying the violent attack by a pro-Trump mob on January 6, with one Republican comparing it to a “normal tourist visit.” Angry Democrats say such utterances – and the public repression of the loudest Trump critic in the GOP this week – are further evidence of the extremism that is overtaking the Republican Party, leaving little chance of healing its political and psychological wounds caused by the fatal attack on Congress.
The rift between the two parties over the insurrection is worse today than it has been at any time since early January. Legislators openly abuse each other in the hallways and refuse to participate in legislation. The brittle collapse of what is still not very cross-party in the House, of course, takes place in the long shadow of the former president.
And the growing tide of revisionism from the GOP uprisings could turn the already bitter divide between House Democrats and Republicans who backed Donald Trump’s election challenges into a permanent cold war.
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According to two sources, we can take Matt Gaetz to a hotel room where he is sniffing cocaine with an escort.
A source also says Joel Greenberg will testify that she is one of more than 15 women Gaetz paid to have sex
– Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) May 14, 2021
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
The GOP can no longer be relied on to protect democracy
How deep has Lincoln’s party fallen? In answering this question, it is instructive to consider the example of Kevin McCarthy, a seven-year-old California congressman who has served as the House Minority Leader since 2019. Until Donald Trump McCarthy did not appear to be particularly conservative – at least by the standards of today’s Republican Party. When he made an offer to become Speaker of the House in 2015, there were quite a few Tea party activists celebrated.
In the summer of 2016, McCarthy approved Trump as president, but only after the New York intruder sewed up the nomination. A year later, it emerged that in June 2016 McCarthy had told some of his colleagues in the House of Representatives’ Republican leadership that he believed – “swear to God” – that Trump would be paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin. When the Washington Post finally covered these comments, McCarthy tried to laugh at them as a joke.
The type of lodging McCarthy made with his conscience when he boarded the Trump train can only be speculated. It may be fair to assume he didn’t know exactly where the tracks would lead, but given his comments in 2016, it’s also clear that he had no illusions about the man he was supporting.
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BREAKING- Matt Gaetz employee Joel Greenberg will plead guilty to six of 33 federal charges. And agrees to “cooperate fully with the United States in investigating and prosecuting anyone else”
– Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 14, 2021
New York Times:
A breakaway third party from ex-Republicans? Don’t rely on it.
The idea of a conservative anti-Trump party emerged this week – but the threat remains hollow.
A group of traditionalist Republicans – virtually none of whom are currently elected – threatens to leave the party and start a new one, saying the GOP is on the verge of becoming “all one thing”: a personality cult.
However, some insiders say the threat is largely hollow, given how resolutely pro-Donald Trump the Republican base is now and how unfriendly the American political system has always been to third parties.
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How Biden won 2020 according to new numbers from Catalist:
1) An increase in turnout among black voters that got him over the line in AZ + GA
2) A shift towards Ds among whites, especially suburban college graduates across the country
– G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) May 14, 2021
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