McCarthy pulls his 5 GOP members from 1/6 committee after Pelosi rejects 2 of his picks
Source: CNN
CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pulling his five Republican members selected to join the House committee thats investigating the January 6 insurrection, following House Speaker Nancy Pelosis decision to reject two of McCarthys picks.
The committee will have Republican representation from one member: Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump who was one of Pelosis eight choices to serve on the committee. Still the refusal by the leader of House Republicans to participate is sure to inject even more partisanship into the already high-profile committee.
Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees, Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts, McCarthy said.
Earlier Wednesday, Pelosi announced she was vetoing the appointment of two Republicans who objected to the certification of the November election, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, to the House select committee. Pelosi said in a statement she was accepting three of the five Republicans named by McCarthy earlier this week.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/21/politics/nancy-pelosi-rejects-republicans-from-committee/index.html
This broke just minutes after Pelosi rejected Banks and Jordan.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)Pelosi should go ahead and include 5 members from GOP but should just pick ones that will participate with some dignity.
That is if she can find five that meet that description.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,343 posts)They have not been any part of the GQP shitshow...
There is a good number of GOP House members who voted for the 2nd impeachment. Those who also voted to certify the election should be considered.
genxlib
(5,524 posts)Pelosi should go ahead and include 5 members from GOP but should just pick ones that will participate with some dignity.
That is if she can find five that meet that description.
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)First, they would have denounced the committee as PARTISAN regardless, and everyone kn ows it, so they gain no advantage by boycott.
Second, their own sham investigation will not only lack credibility outside their current true-believers, it will have no investigative tools whatever, and prove to be no more than a sort of bloggers' convention in a basement somewhere....
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)I wonder if she's asked Adam Kinzinger or John Katko.
George II
(67,782 posts)She spoke briefly about 3:00 today to reporters. There's a video of it on the Home Page.
Roy Rolling
(6,915 posts)Its still a media war. Saying that frames the withdrawal as Republicans too afraid to participate. Then, any reason can be inserted. The best one is, they may be witnesses or defendants. Yes, defendants.
Who knows? It could happen. It cant be ruled out. Therefore, say it out loud Democrats. Fill in the blanks in peoples minds with possibilities.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I expect he wanted it this way since he put an A-1 Jerk on there like Jordan, who should be in Prison, not on a committee trying to get at truth.
Walleye
(31,009 posts)IcyPeas
(21,859 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,129 posts)Way to go!
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PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Thats right, pick up your ball and bat and go home.
KS Toronado
(17,199 posts)Can he do that without Nancy's permission?
Aristus
(66,316 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)BENGHAZIIIIII!!!!!!11!!
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,129 posts)Everyone knows he's in TFG's pocket and would wink at the insurrection in a heartbeat
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)If it bit them on the ass. Were better off without them.
Marthe48
(16,935 posts)Maybe r's will mass resign and let the U.S. relive sanity in politics.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)Dems looking good now. Go for it!
DemocraticPatriot
(4,343 posts)I'm taking my ball and going home!"
Screw him. Liz Cheney is good enough for me.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)you will be fucking asked....
Beastly Boy
(9,311 posts)let them decline their appointments individually, not as McCarthy's nominees. McCarthy already nominated them, and Pelosi accepted, but McCarthy has now withdrawn their nominations. If any of them decline Pelosi's appointment and McCarthy still blames Pelosi for excluding Repubs, he will look like a total iidiot.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Sounds pretty good. Wonder if that is her plan.
But, it could also backfire when investigation details get leaked by Repukes and then spun into something else. Or diminished to make the results seem less damning.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)no facts for the GOP!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Work backwards from there.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)to when orange numbnuts was President, and that is where their reality parks its ass.
oasis
(49,376 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)The motherlode of alternate facts.
Sadly, MAGAs will eat it up with a spoon, no matter how absurd their findings.
I can imagine Antifa ,led by Hunter Biden, incited a riot to stop the confirmation. Republicans just waltzed in after BLM broke down the doors to meet & greet representatives and view the artifacts. Sounds good to me.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)EndlessWire
(6,513 posts)Oh, break my heart!...Pelosi knows what she is doing. I still remember waiting for the Mueller Report, allegedly touted as a fair report, only to get redacted to death and shipped off to oblivion. Besides, there are rats inside the Congress...the next thing the Repubs would complain about would be the shape of the meeting table...hey, it worked once...
I look at everything now as an attempt to delay until the Midterms. They got nothin', no platform, and "unfaithful" is their middle name. Dream on if you're drooling over getting a red Governor for California, think you're gonna put Fauci away, or suddenly start recounts in states that will give you the election! Sooner or later your taxpayers will wish for potholes to be filled in instead of hearing dumbass speeches or watching those in charge fly away to dream vacations when the going gets tough! Red states have votes, too, and they may get tired of the games you play! Vote. them. all. OUT!
DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)Same shit they did with Obama, and they are doing it all over again.
GOP should be Grand Obstruction Party.
I wonder what they are corruptly scheming in the shadows while all this diversion shit is getting all the headlines.
They are already prematurely collecting astronomical donations to the Rep Senators and House members for the 2022 elections......
oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Seems like the committee will run much better now.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Will get further by investigating without them, but the results of the investigation will be considered biased and unreliable.
Nothing works as it should anymore.
Nothing.
Why did Bezos have to be so tone deaf as to thank his employees and his customers for his joy ride to space? What an absolute tone deaf insensitive sh*thead.
We lost a 20-something kid (.not our own.) to suicide and buried him yesterday. He was a member of a close knit family we knew from when we lived in a different part of the state awhile back. We fell out of touch so it was quite a shock. I cant seem to get my head around it, or the worsening dysfunction of my country and the world at large. At the moment I am NOT sad or depressed. But Im sure its coming sooner than later.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)At least now he'll be yelling from the outside instead of disrupting the proceeding.
And yes, the t and c words are considered too misogynistic for every day use on this side of the pond. Shithead, douchebag, asshole are all excellent alternatives.
Karma13612
(4,552 posts)Thanks for the polite explanation.
And I agree about Gym. Better he be off the committee even if he still will rant and lie.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)not including any Nazis in Europe, nor any Imperial Japanese politicos in Asia