On Tuesday's Deadline: White House on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and guest David Jolly sounded despondent over the House Republican plan to establish a committee to investigate the abusive federal agencies which have tormented and targeted American citizens for the past two years. Jolly even went as far as to claim that it would be an "insurrection committee."
Wallace started off crying that Republicans in Congress are "creating a climate where political violence is not just tolerated, but preferable to running in elections in a democracy and prevailing." Needless to say, this is absurd.
"I'm not sure we are as a country ready for the cultural divide this might create. This is their insurrection committee. Again, the committee, the platform they will use to foment insurrection using the levers of the Congress," Jolly wailed in response.
Jolly went even further in his unhinged and frankly dangerous rhetoric by claiming "at the root of the ardent Second Amendment, most zealous advocates in today's Republican Party is that I need my weapons for when the government comes for me. That is the reason for the Second Amendment and armed citizenry to protect themselves against the government. Well, what is this weaponization panel going to do? It's going to be like mainlining heroin into that constituency."
"This is a dangerous dangerous concession that goes all the way back to Kevin McCarthy's corrupt bargain and it will be on him to try to keep it in check but I think he's shown us he will have zero ability to do that," Jolly whined in reference to McCarthy promising to create a committee to investigate corrupt Justice Department investigations in exchange for the votes of the Freedom Caucus to elect him Speaker.
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MSNBC’s Deadline: White House
1/10/2023
5:12:57 p.m. EasternNICOLLE WALLACE: They are creating a climate where political violence is not just tolerated, but preferable to running in elections in a democracy and prevailing. This is the strategy and I guess my concern David Jolly is that it is beyond norm-busting. It is reprehensible and I wonder if you believe that our institutions are ready for this.
DAVID JOLLY: I'm not sure we are as a country ready for the cultural divide this might create. This is their insurrection committee. Again, the committee, the platform they will use to foment insurrection using the levers of the Congress. The through-line to violence, a good friend of the show of yours and mine, Fred Guttenberg, said today, please continue to talk about the through-line to violence. Because every time this happens we see a violent reaction like you just articulated in that list of moments we’ve lived through that we’ve seen and it brings in another constituency. Again, I don't want to be dark, but if we don't talk about this, then we're not forewarned.
At the root of the ardent Second Amendment, most zealous advocates in today's Republican Party is that I need my weapons for when the government comes for me. That is the reason for the Second Amendment and armed citizenry to protect themselves against the government. Well, what is this weaponization panel going to do? It's going to be like mainlining heroin into that constituency.
Saying your domestic law enforcement agencies are coming after you. They're stealing your election, they’re stealing your franchise, surveilling you and they are going to rip at your liberties if you don't protect us from it and Jim Jordan is going to suggest that he’s going to lead the nation out of this dark chapter when what he's actually going to do is lead us right into it. This is a dangerous dangerous concession that goes all the way back to Kevin McCarthy's corrupt bargain and it will be on him to try to keep it in check but I think he's shown us he will have zero ability to do that.
