One of the things the mainstream media has tried to get people to believe through their endless “reporting” is that the House members who sit on the much-heralded January 6th Select Committee are committed to upholding the “principles of democracy” or whatever, including “free and fair elections” and all that.
But in recent weeks, a growing number of media outlets including NPR and Axios have expressed their discontent over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s intentional meddling in some key House races by attempting to elevate so-called GOP “election denier” candidates over their primary opponents because they think it will help their eventual Democratic nominees win their respective races come the fall midterms:
What is the point? The committee has spent the last year warning that former President Trump and his allies — including candidates running in this year’s midterms — are endangering American democracy by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
Critics say the message that “this is bigger than politics” and “country before party” — reinforced in the committee’s blockbuster summer hearings — is at risk of being undermined.
In between the lines: Public backlash intensified yesterday when it emerged that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is boosting an election denier in his primary against Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) — one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, the group’s chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney admitted that was part of the plan:
“We have a high bar for that. I think if you’re going to do that, you need to really understand what you’re doing. If you’re talking about trying to pick your opponent, you might see us do that, sure. And I think sometimes it does make sense.”
Watch:
Sean Patrick Maloney, DCCC Chair defends Democrats recent tendency to meddle in GOP primaries to support far-right candidates
“I think if you’re gonna do that, you need to really understand what you’re doing … and I think sometimes it does make sense.” pic.twitter.com/dX3HZiWjkV
— The Recount (@therecount) July 26, 2022
Maloney has a history of manipulating the system for his own advantage, which I must point out. He has also come under fire from his fellow New York Democrats, some of who yelled “racism” and called for his resignation after Maloney switched districts once the state’s redistricting maps became official. The move complicated the reelection efforts of Rep. Mondaire Jones, who ultimately decided to run in the newly-drawn 10th District instead of facing off in a primary fight with either Maloney in the 17th (Jones’ current district) or his fellow “woke” Democrat Rep. Jamaal Brown in the 16th.
While the Axios report noted some of the Democrats on the committee publicly stated objections to the DCCC’s plan, it also quoted J6 Committee member Jamie Raskin – who we’ve been reliably told is the most principled of all the “principled Democrats” on the committee when it comes to election integrity – as spinning like a top in his defense of the practice:
“One can certainly understand an argument that it’s categorically wrong to do anything that would objectively help insurrectionist election deniers.
In the world of politics however, it is possible to argue that even if one of the Republican caucus’s pro-insurrectionist and election-denier wings has already won, it may be worthwhile to risk another of them being elected in order to dramatically increase the odds that Democrats can hold the House in opposition to a GOP majority that favors election-denying Republicans.
Jean-Paul Sartre stated that politics is a messy business. Nobody’s pure. And we are in desperate times to defend democratic institutions and practices.”
Of course Raskin is defending this, because not only is he a member of the sham Jan. 6 Committee, but he’s also – wait for it – the organizing chair for the DCCC.
Isn’t that awfully convenient?
Raskin, as you’ll recall, was not only House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-selected lead impeachment manager during the second Trump impeachment show trial, but he also was one of several Democrats who tried to stop the certification of Trump’s 2016 victory.
Watch:
Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager, objected in 2017 to Florida’s electoral vote results. pic.twitter.com/FsLvJLvA8v
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) January 13, 2021
As for “distinguished” Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of who purport to be “Republicans,” Cheney laughably came down hard against the DCCC’s underhanded tactics even as she has heavily courted Democratic voters by way of asking them to change their party affiliation to help her in her own uphill primary fight.
Kinzinger wants you, however, to understand that he won’t tolerate any Democrat talking from both ends of the election integrity issue.
.@AdamKinzingerDem grps support GOP election deniers, in the hope of more general election races
It’s disgusting.. Don’t approach me after you’ve spent money on an election denier’s primary and then ask me ‘Where are all the good Republicans’? pic.twitter.com/SseetxLrO8
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) July 26, 2022
Newsflash: If someone’s looking to Adam Kinzinger to find out “where are all the good Republicans,” they’re doing it wrong. It’s really wrong. His heart is pure.
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