Spill Some More Tea, Adam Kinzinger. We're Listening.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.wonkette.com/spill-some-more-tea-adam-kinzinger-we-re-listening

One of the things we've been hoping would happen, as the GOP really shoots itself in the dick by excommunicating people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, is that we really are ready for them to amp it up when it comes to them spilling tea and naming names about their garbage seditionist colleagues. So far there's been ... a little bit.

But Kinzinger said some words this week to CNN that suggest that maybe he might be brewing a nice Earl Grey and could possibly be convinced to spill it, if they piss him off enough.

Talking Points memo provides some quotes:

[Kinzinger told] CNN that the "vast majority, if not all of them, my colleagues believe this was a Trump-incited insurrection." But they don't want to say anything or take part in Jan. 6 investigations or even watch footage of the attack, he said, because it would keep them honest.

"But when you are in a tribe and you know, if you say something truthful that gets you kicked out of the tribe, you keep your head down and you stay in the tribe," he continued. "I don't think they believe it, but if you watch the videos, you get that tinge of guilt. And it's much easier to just paper over that tinge of guilt, hope that this organically just kind of fixes the glitch and nobody is willing to step up. It's disappointing, of course. It's sad."

"And I think what's even more sad is not that so many people that aren't acknowledging the truth. It's that there are millions of people — base voters, Republican voters, many in my district — that believe the Big Lie."

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[maxsolomon]

1. It's pretty lonely on Honest Republican Island.

"Hope everyone just forgets about it" is their explicit strategy.

They know their base doesn't like to be made to feel culpable in any way, so ignoring the Truth is best for them politically.

[Gaugamela]

2. As Adlai Stevenson (D-IL) quipped to Everett Dirksen (R-IL):

“Not all Republicans are stupid, but everyone knows all stupid people are Republicans.”