{"id":106284,"date":"2022-12-28T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106284"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:09:05","slug":"bennie-thompson-and-liz-cheney-are-the-jan-6-committees-unusual-dynamic-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106284","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney are the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s unusual dynamic duo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/12\/26\/cheney-thompson-jan6-committee-accomplishments\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Reps. Bennie G. Thompson and Liz Cheney have radically different political philosophies and life experiences. But with Thompson as its leader and Cheney as his second-in-command, the House\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/january-6-capitol-riot\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 6<\/a>\u00a0committee has conducted one of the most impressive congressional investigations the nation has ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson, 74, is a Black liberal Democrat from Mississippi who grew up during the civil rights movement and remembers how racist Jim Crow repression denied his father the right to vote. Cheney, 56, is a White conservative Republican from Wyoming who grew up in the halls of power with her father serving as a member of Congress and as vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The responsibility of learning and telling the story of the 2021\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2021\/jan-6-insurrection-capitol\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">Capitol insurrection<\/a>\u00a0brought these partisan opponents together as chair and vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee. Their separate forewords to the committee\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/12\/22\/jan-6-committee-report-full-text\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">final report<\/a>, released Thursday, tell what united these unlikely partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Reps. Bennie G. Thompson and Liz Cheney have radically different political philosophies and life experiences. But with Thompson as its leader and Cheney as his second-in-command, the House\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0committee has conducted one of the most impressive congressional investigations the nation has ever seen. Thompson, 74, is a Black liberal Democrat from Mississippi who grew&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106285,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106284\/revisions\/106285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}