“One brave lady.” The Hearing “I am a staffer. My job is to showcase the achievements of the President. I was frustrated, disappointed and saddened by what was happening…as an American, I was disgusted. This was unpatriotic, un-American.” -Cassidy Hutchinson, former Aide to Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff in the…

Department of Favors. The Hearing. “We’ll call you when there is an oil spill.” -Deputy AG, Richard Donoghue in an email to DOJ official and former Assistant AG of the Environmental Affairs Division, Jeffrey Clark, January 3, 2021. June 23 Today’s Hearing began with the “breaking news” item that former…

It’s an image of one voting strategy for reinstalling Roe and women’s rights. Suitable for tee shirt screening. No caption necessary. A few years back when my family and I had just moved to Michigan, I consulted a friend about a voting dilemma. “What’s with all the judgeship elections?” I…

It was never about states’ rights was it, Mr. President. It was about subverting ‘due process:’ The fifth amendment says to the federal government that ‘no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.’ The fourteenth amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven…

Foot Soldiers of Democracy. The Hearing. It’s a harsh awakening for us to relive our ignorance of how democracy works, and to acknowledge how much we take democracy for granted. Thanks to Day 4’s proceedings much of ‘democracy’ was revisited during live witness and recorded testimony. We had heard about…

America’s terrorist mob, January 6… more a mindset than a political party faction. America does have a “third party.” It's the party of the disaffected and the exhausted. At America’s imaginary voting booth, the party of ‘no shows.’ One doesn’t see them as much as feel their militancy. It’s a…

Debunking the January 6 Committee Hearing Nobody likes the Hearings anymore. It’s the worst show in town, lacking the breathlessness of the Senate Watergate Investigation Hearings and the perversion of the Clinton Impeachment Hearings. Indeed, everybody, it seems, is out to get back at the January 6 Hearings — the…

Playing with matches. The Hearing. At the opening remarks segment of the Select House Committee Hearing, both Thompson-Cheney and the designated interlocutor of the day — Lofgren, Day 2; Aguilar, Day 3 — use the floor to build a bridge between “what we heard during the last hearing and what…

The Hearing America was reminded on Monday, June 13 of the vicissitudes of family husbandry. Though as a nation we lack desperately needed funding for “family leave,” we will delay today’s proceedings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack for 45 minutes because one of today’s witnesses…