Perhaps no House member that Democrats would less like to hear this message from.
"Rushing this resolution to the floor will do nothing to unify or heal the country," says @Jim_Jordan at House Rules. "These actions, again, will only continue to divide the nation."

>@RepMcGovern not having it: "I'm glad that all it took for you to call for unity and for healing was for our freedom and our democracy to be attacked. But for the last several months the gentleman from Ohio and others have given oxygen to the president's conspiracy theories."
More @RepMcGovern: "We all want healing, but in order to get to healing, we need truth and we need accountability." Notes he was in the Speaker's Lobby and saw the mob trying to rush through the doors. "I saw in their eyes hate and evil."
More @jim_jordan playing down the Stop the Steal push: "Mr. Chairman, I said Joe Biden won the election, but there were problems with how it was done."
McGovern: "People came here, Mr. Jordan, because they believed the lie...this election was not done in a fair & square fashion."
Jordan tries to equate the Trump/Republican "Stop the Steal" effort with Democratic challenges to Trump's votes on Jan. 6, 2017. McGovern, exasperated, noted he recognized Trump as winner and Clinton had long since conceded.
>@RepRaskin rebuts: "What did the Democrats do? They put on pink winter hats, marched peacefully with a million people, joined Planned Parenthood, worked...to try to reform America. Nobody was out there agitating for a violent armed insurrection against the government."
>@RepMcGovern to Jordan & Co.: "I think you could do the country a great service if you just say the five words: The election was not stolen. ... Tweet that, instead of some of the other stuff that gets put on Twitter."
>@RepPerlmutter asks Jordan: "Isn't it true that Joe Biden won the election?":
@Jim_Jordan: "Yes, he's going to be president. I've never said this election was stolen. ... There are serious problems with this investigation that deserve an investigation."
Just gonna drop this right here.
(@DanGleiter/@PennLive photo)
>@DebbieLesko says Dems are being sore winners after taking the presidency, House and Senate: "I call on you to chalk up the win ... I really do believe that you pushing this is going to further divide our country, further the unrest and possibly incite more violence."

More from Government

This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.


The state of our constitution is a bit like the state of the neglected electric wiring in an old house. If you are moving into the house, sorting it out is a bit tedious. Couldn’t you spend the time and money on a new sound system?

But if you ignore the wiring, you’ll find that you can’t safely install the new sound system. And your house may well catch fire.

Any programme for social democratic government requires a state with capacity, and a state that has clear mechanisms of accountability, for all the big and all the small decisions that in takes, in which people have confidence.

That is not a description of the modern UK state.
Typically excellent piece from @dsquareddigest The exponential insight is especially neat. Think of it a little like fishing...today you can’t export oysters to the EU (because you simply aren’t allowed to), tomorrow you don’t have a fish exporting business (to the EU).


The extremely small minority of people who known anything about this who think that Brexit will be good for the City make a number of arguments which I shall address in turn...

1. They need us more than we need them. This is a variant of the German carmakers argument. And we know how that went...Business will follow the profit opportunity and if that has moved then so will the business...

And what do we mean by us / we. We’re not talking about massed ranks of Euro investing / trading etc blue blooded British institutions.

Au contraire. We’re talking about the London based subs of US, Asian and indeed European capital markets players...As soon as they think the profit opportunity has moved then so will they...it’s a market innit...

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