Self Defense

 So the Tennessee Legislature showed the Washington GOP just how they should be handling Deocrats who don't obey the rules.  And our DC Democrats have been breaking all kinds of rules. David Zukerman has a post at the American Thinker entitled Let The House Hearings on the False 'Insurrection' of Jan. 6 Begin

It is not that House Republicans are merely lukewarm in their support of former President Trump and his MAGA program, and therefore, according to the instruction of Machiavelli, in The Prince, will fail in helping this innovator overcome the fierce opposition of the Deep State. House Republicans are pathetic in their flabby pretense to help Mr. Trump drain the swamp.

The latest instance of likely House Republican ineptitude is revealed from the concatenation of two developments, in Washington, DC., and at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville. In Washington, a defense attorney for the Proud Boys has charged that undercover operatives, perhaps as many as 40, were involved in the Jan. 6 commotion at the Capitol, and likely served as agents provocateur. (No wonder, the Capitol doors were opened to admit a part of the throng.)

Meanwhile, in Nashville, the Tennessee State House expelled two members for disruptive behavior on the House floor during an unruly gun protest. The operative part of the account in The New York Times on the ouster of the two legislators -- an account sympathetic to the legislators -- appeared twelve paragraphs into the story:

"The lawmakers who were expelled readily agreed that [their] outburst violated the House's rules of conduct...."

See, now tbe Tennessee Legislature shows the correect way of doing things. There must be consequences if you expect them to behave like civilized people.  It's self defense.