As Washington Republicans scramble to obscure their role in inciting last week’s QAnon mob that attacked America’s Capitol building, local columnists and editorial boards are calling on them to take responsibility for their role in inciting the QAnon mob that murdered a police officer.
Just a sampling of the pieces running in local outlets…
Minority Leader McCarthy
Sacramento Bee: The coup failed, but Republicans must face prosecution for seditious U.S. Capitol attack
Especially guilty of fomenting sedition are several prominent California congressmen. Chief among them: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, a soulless anti-democracy conspirator who would be glad to see this nation fall so that his political ambitions might live. He is joined by the following traitors to democracy who engaged in direct attempts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election:
AL-05: Mo Brooks:
Decatur Daily Editorial: Mo Brooks should resign
AL – All Republicans
Alabama Political Reporter: Opinion | Alabama congressmen who incited a coup attempt should resign
Attn: Reps. Mo Brooks, Gary Palmer, Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, Jerry Carl, Barry Moore and Sen. Tommy Tuberville: Iwrite to you today on behalf of myself and the thousands of Alabamians who were utterly embarrassed and painfully ashamed by your involvement and incitement of today’s deplorable, harmful actions at our U.S. Capitol building. ….. All of you should do the only honorable thing left for you and allow men and women who might take the job and their oaths more seriously to hold those offices.
CA-25
Antelope Valley Times: Op-ed: Kevin McCarthy and Mike Garcia must resign
The list of those responsible for inciting the violence that killed five Americans includes the President, over a dozen Republican Senators, and a majority of the Republican Party’s House of Representatives members, including the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who serves the 23rd Congressional District from Lancaster to Bakersfield, and Mike Garcia who serves the 25th district that includes the rest of the Antelope Valley, Santa Clarita, and out to Simi Valley.
These men must resign. They have violated their sacred oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States by supporting Donald Trump’s treacherous efforts to overturn the results of a fair election.
CO-03, 05: Lauren Boebert and Doug Lamborn
Colorado Sentinel: EDITORIAL: Boebert, Lamborn and other Trump insurgent abettors should resign
Boebert, like Trump, incited lunatic Trump fanatics with talk of “revolution” and taking back the nation from its rightful next president and the voters who elected him. Likewise, veteran Colorado GOP Congressman Doug Lamborn has for weeks flirted with debunked voter-fraud quackery, at one point directing his Twitter followers to a shrill Trump Facebook post, where the president strung together dozens of provable, incendiary lies and accusations about the election. Both should immediately resign their seats for having knowingly participated in yesterday’s gruesome failed coup.
IA-02: Mariannette Miller-Meeks
Quad City Times: Editorial: There is no parallel
In this historic moment, our nation’s leaders need to be clear: The mob that assaulted the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, after being incited by President Trump, was revolting and unacceptable. Any attempt to shift blame or deflect attention is wrong. Yet, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the Republican now representing our area in the U.S. House of Representatives, is doing exactly that…This was an attack on our country. It has no parallel to anything else that has gone on over the last tumultuous year in this country. Or for decades before that.
NC-09: Madison Cawthorn
Citizen Times: The Constitution makes it clear: It’s time for Madison Cawthorn to resign | OPINION
It is shocking to write these words: Madison Cawthorn, the Congressman representing Western NC, helped to incite a violent siege on the federal government. It’s time for Congressman Cawthorn to resign. If he does not resign, he should be removed from office because he has violated his oath of office and specifically section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which reads:
NY-11: Nicole Malliotakis
Staten Island Advance: EDITORIAL: Malliotakis might have satisfied supporters, but let America down | From the editor
It’s absurd, and Nicole Malliotakis knows it. Or she should, since every state government official stood by their vote count, and every court tossed lawsuits brought by Donald J. Trump and his followers. Or does the new congresswoman believe they all are in on a monumental hoax?
Fine, if she wants an investigation, launch one. If the congresswoman is concerned about irregularities, she should call for a commission to study it. She should continue her call for voter identification laws.
She should do something, except thwart the will of the people.
PA-10: Scott Perry
York Dispatch: EDITORIAL: Scott Perry must resign
It can’t be done. Perry has taken a step too far. He cannot be trusted to represent the people of the 10th District, the people whose votes he was so willing to cast aside in the service of a demagogue of a president who just hours earlier had incited a mob to force their way into the U.S. Capitol building… He is a disgrace to Pennsylvania and our democracy, and he has to go.
TX-02, TX-22: Dan Crenshaw, Troy Nehls
Houston Chronicle: Editorial: The shame of Texas — Ted Cruz, Ken Paxton and the Seditious 16
We must hold our elected officials accountable for their role in this outrage. Congress members such as Randy Weber, Brian Babin and even Troy Nehls, the former Fort Bend County sheriff who has been praised for protecting colleagues during the siege, ended the day where they began: in craven thrall to Trump and his true-believers. They must be censured, at the very least.
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… Crenshaw is being disingenuous if he doesn’t acknowledge his role in perpetuating those lies. He was among the 126 House members who supported Paxton’s unsuccessful attempt to challenge the election results in four states. He could have been as open and honest with his constituents then as he was after the riot, and yet Crenshaw, who of all people knows that bravery comes with a cost, was unable for weeks to show that political courage.
UT-04: Burgess Owens
Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: False accusations of voter fraud lead to treasonous violence on Capitol Hill
Wednesday’s violent assault on the United States Capitol building, the likes of which have not been seen since the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812, is a direct result of deliberate incitements from Donald Trump. These incitements have been supported by some Republican members of Congress, including Utah’s Chris Stewart and Burgess Owens…The attack on the Capitol was in no way acceptable. The words of the president, from his call months ago for right-wing thugs to “stand by” to his Wednesday rally inciting protests, lit the fuse for this obscene incident.
VA-05: Bob Good
Danville Register & Bee: OUR VIEW: Please submit your resignation, Rep. Good
Today we ask that you, U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-5th District, to resign your position representing the 5th Congressional District and the people of Danville and Pittsylvania County… You helped strike the matches that Trump and his allies used to ignite them to action by supporting his preposterous and unfounded claims of election fraud.
WI-05, 07: Scott Fitzgerald & Tom Tiffany
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Editorial: Ron Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany should resign or be expelled for siding with Trump against our republic
Fitzgerald and Tiffany were the only members of the House of Representatives from Wisconsin who joined in an insurrection built upon a foundation of ignorance and lies… After seeing the damage that their deceitful alliance with Trump has caused, Fitzgerald, Tiffany, Johnson and the rest of the plotters should resign their offices immediately.
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