Are Democrats bringing a butter knife to a gun fight?
If it’s Monday….
Where does anyone get such an impression? Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson pounds his head against the wall at “hapless” Democrats and this report from The Guardian:
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to stage six public hearings in June on how Donald Trump and some allies broke the law as they sought to overturn the 2020 election results, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
The hearings are set to be a pivotal political moment for the country as the panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden.
According to a draft schedule reviewed by the Guardian, the select committee intends to hold six hearings, with the first and last in prime time, where its lawyers will run through how Trump’s schemes took shape before the election and culminated with the Capitol attack.
Just a reminder. The U.S. Senate Watergate Committee investigating “a third-rate burglary” at a D.C. hotel held weeks’ worth of televised hearings in 1973 (Wikipedia):
The first weeks of the committee’s hearings were a national political and cultural event. They were broadcast live during the day on commercial television; at the start, CBS, NBC, and ABC covered them simultaneously, and then later on a rotation basis, while PBS replayed the hearings at night.[8] Some 319 hours were broadcast overall, and 85% of U.S. households watched some portion of them.[8] The audio feed also was broadcast, gavel-to-gavel, on scores of National Public Radio stations, making the hearings available to people in their cars and workplaces, and increased the profile of the fledgling broadcast organization.[9]
Cable news today has to fill 24/7 worth of airtime. Why not provide them content, Democrats?
We’re talking here about a plot to overthrow the government supported by a violent insurrection, an assault on the U.S. Capitol in which people died. The perpetrators see their failed attempt as a rehearsal. Wilson is beside himself.
Democrats are playing for a good sportsmanship medal. The GOP is playing for keeps, Democrats. Did you think they were joking?
Those “low-information voters” are not blind.
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