Stefanik tries to rewrite history, shaming her office and doing harm to the country
News Editorial Board Jul 28, 2021
Some call it a “reality distortion field,” as congressional Republicans attempt to rewrite history and paint the Jan. 6 insurrection as something other than the Trump-inspired sedition that it was. More succinctly, perverted is what it is.
When leading Republicans such as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and New York’s Elise Stefanik try to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the attack, that’s a perversion, not just of the party’s historic support for law and order and for police, but of its commitment to the idea of America. The country came under assault on Jan. 6. All Americans should want to know the facts.
This matters to the country, to this state and to Western New York, home of one of the suspects charged with beating a Washington, D.C., police officer nearly to death on that day. That officer, Michael Fanone, testified Tuesday to his terror on that day, as the House of Representatives began its hearings into the rampage meant to overturn the results of November’s presidential election.
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This is a moment for clear-eyed honesty, not distortion – the kind of honesty to which former President George W. Bush subjected his Republican administration in the fraught aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. Too many of today’s Republicans aren’t made of that kind of stuff.
Instead, they prostrate themselves before Trump, as Rep. Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park did last month, hungering for the approval of the insurrectionist-in-chief. On Tuesday, Stefanik did worse, seeking to rewrite history for the eager and the gullible. It was a perversion of public service that shamed her office and stands to injure the country she swore to protect.
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But then her ridiculous antics have become a national embarrassment, not just for New York, but across the country! NY-26 has a Democratic representative (Brian Higgins), we need to go back to Democratic representation here in NY-21 next year - so far two Democratic candidates have already stepped up (Matt Putorti-Whitehall and Bridie Farrell-Saratoga). I'd vote for either one of them! 