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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5043872" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>"You can be impressed with Rice’s capacity for contortionism. On the one hand there she was telling the folks at <em>The View</em> that she cried when she witnessed the events of January 6 and reaffirming that “I don’t know how much more strongly I can say what happened on Jan. 6 was wrong.” But on the other hand, even as she insisted that institutions need to be protected, she also urged that now is the time for lawmakers to “move ahead and deal with the American people’s issues.” The institutions—and all the assorted vulnerable people who rely on them—will apparently have to fend for themselves. The rank hypocrisy of the <em>move forward dammit</em> contingent of the GOP is hardly limited to Trumpism—<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/state-union-2004/" target="_blank">the writer Gore Vidal famously wrote in 2004</a> that “happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>Dahlia Lithwick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5043872, member: 54375"] "You can be impressed with Rice’s capacity for contortionism. On the one hand there she was telling the folks at [I]The View[/I] that she cried when she witnessed the events of January 6 and reaffirming that “I don’t know how much more strongly I can say what happened on Jan. 6 was wrong.” But on the other hand, even as she insisted that institutions need to be protected, she also urged that now is the time for lawmakers to “move ahead and deal with the American people’s issues.” The institutions—and all the assorted vulnerable people who rely on them—will apparently have to fend for themselves. The rank hypocrisy of the [I]move forward dammit[/I] contingent of the GOP is hardly limited to Trumpism—[URL='https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/state-union-2004/']the writer Gore Vidal famously wrote in 2004[/URL] that “happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.” Dahlia Lithwick [/QUOTE]
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