Establishing A Spine.

PZ Myers, this F-Troop list blogs favourite arachnologist, figures that establishment Democrats in his home country received a spine transplant from an unlikely source last night:

...I’ve seen a bit of the hearings on video, and caught up with summaries in the newspapers. At least I’ve confirmed that Liz Cheney has a spine, I guess my party had to import a Republican to get one...

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Marcy Wheeler has an interesting take on last night's first episode of the January 6th hearings show:

...Perhaps the most striking part of the hearing was the degree to which, aside from the two live witnesses, Capitol Police Officer Carolyn Edwards and Nick Quested, the hearing relied exclusively on Republicans to make their case...

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...In short, this was directed at Republicans and relied on Republicans to make the case for democracy...

A most interesting, and potentially effective, strategy indeed. 

The question is, will it even be seen or heard by said Republicans?

After all, while the hearing was being broadcast last night the good Mr. Carlson, man of the trust fund people, was running his show on the Fox Network sans commercials in an apparent effort to make sure that no one being bamoozled reflexively hit the remote button out of gold bond boredom:

...Fox News opted not to air the hearing, which was broadcast live on ABC, NBC, CBS, and most cable news stations. Instead, they ran their two premiere evening programs, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity. But (Stephen) Colbert found it particularly odd that neither show cut away to commercials.

“Do you understand what that means?” he asked the audience. “Fox News is willing to lose money to keep their viewers from flipping over and accidentally learning information… I'm really not surprised — that's the first rule of any cult: never leave the compound.”...

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And, as a side note, do not ever forget, as Driftglass likes to remind those paying attention, repeatedly, that the overwhelming majority of the fine folks behind never Trumper initiatives like the 'Lincoln Project' were the ones that actually recruited the members and built the compound...


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