First of all, I take issue with you referring to people who lived through Watergate as "older Americans." (Just kidding, or course.) Second, I am concerned about Merrick Garland's follow through on the referrals. Hoping this is not going to be a repeat of the Mueller let down.
Hah! I was 15 during the Senate Watergate hearings--about the age when you can first understand. And I'm 65 now. Watergate is for Old Goats! Re Garland, I have a lot more faith in him than Barr, who mischaracterized the Mueller Report and rendered it close to useless. I have faith in Garland but this could be a hard case to win in court. We'll see.
So aware that I am living through a consequential moment in history, such as when I stood on the campus of Ole Miss as an 18-year-old freshman and witnessed a black man who simply wanted an education from the premier state university, turned away, resulting in a mob forming, killing two men outside my freshman dorm, such moments inform a long life. Now writing about our nation's founding so that readers might be reminded of who we are, there is a moment that resonates to much of what the Jan. 6 committee has uncovered. President Jefferson ordered that his vice president Aaron Burr be arrested and tried for treason. Similar to Michael Flynn, Burr seemed to be raising an army to install himself as a Napoleon-like emperor over a swath of land that was part of the United States. History is an early-warning system. We need it now as a guide like never before.
The Republican Party has been a gang of electoral storm troopers ever since the Nov. 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot that attempted to disrupt the presidential electoral recount in Miami-Dade County, Florida. This Jan. 6 Committee is acting to restore the sanctity of the long-besieged voting process in America. If its referrals and recommendations fail, the bedrock notions of our democracy will wither and die.
I agree, JoAnne, that the stakes are high. But I'm not sure they are THAT high. We just strengthened democracy yesterday with the new Electoral Count Act, which is part of the omnibus bill. It doesn't fix everything but should make us breathe a little easier.
First of all, I take issue with you referring to people who lived through Watergate as "older Americans." (Just kidding, or course.) Second, I am concerned about Merrick Garland's follow through on the referrals. Hoping this is not going to be a repeat of the Mueller let down.
Hah! I was 15 during the Senate Watergate hearings--about the age when you can first understand. And I'm 65 now. Watergate is for Old Goats! Re Garland, I have a lot more faith in him than Barr, who mischaracterized the Mueller Report and rendered it close to useless. I have faith in Garland but this could be a hard case to win in court. We'll see.
So aware that I am living through a consequential moment in history, such as when I stood on the campus of Ole Miss as an 18-year-old freshman and witnessed a black man who simply wanted an education from the premier state university, turned away, resulting in a mob forming, killing two men outside my freshman dorm, such moments inform a long life. Now writing about our nation's founding so that readers might be reminded of who we are, there is a moment that resonates to much of what the Jan. 6 committee has uncovered. President Jefferson ordered that his vice president Aaron Burr be arrested and tried for treason. Similar to Michael Flynn, Burr seemed to be raising an army to install himself as a Napoleon-like emperor over a swath of land that was part of the United States. History is an early-warning system. We need it now as a guide like never before.
Good point, Shelly. Flynn is an authentic American fascist and would raise an army to march on Washington if he got the chance.
The Republican Party has been a gang of electoral storm troopers ever since the Nov. 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot that attempted to disrupt the presidential electoral recount in Miami-Dade County, Florida. This Jan. 6 Committee is acting to restore the sanctity of the long-besieged voting process in America. If its referrals and recommendations fail, the bedrock notions of our democracy will wither and die.
I agree, JoAnne, that the stakes are high. But I'm not sure they are THAT high. We just strengthened democracy yesterday with the new Electoral Count Act, which is part of the omnibus bill. It doesn't fix everything but should make us breathe a little easier.
Don't forget the saga of the hanging chads, when the Supreme Court handed the presidency to that buffoon, George Bush.
great commentary Jon---Tom Cronin
Thanks, Tom!