Pelosi mocks McConnell for criticizing commission on the Capitol insurrection

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday after he criticized her proposal for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection.

The top Democrat said she's disappointed over the Kentucky Republican calling her draft proposal "partisan by design" on Wednesday. McConnell criticized her idea of a Democratic majority on the commission and suggested a broad review of political violence in the country that goes beyond the Capitol riot on January 6.

Pelosi last week announced plans to create a bipartisan body that would examine the Capitol riot. She compared the panel to the commission that investigated the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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"It seems when [McConnell] spoke that he was taking a page out of the book of Senator Johnson," Pelosi said, referring to GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who has recently downplayed the severity of the insurrection, which left five people, including a police officer, dead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-mocks-mcconnell-for-criticizing-commission-on-the-capitol-insurrection-gop-sen-ron-johnson-seems-to-be-taking-the-lead/ar-BB1e17ry?li=BBnb7Kz

Oh snap!

[bdamomma]

1. Just

go ahead with the Commission, Speaker Pelosi. There are a lot of unanswered questions about that horrible day.

[TomSlick]

2. This is nothing new.

The intelligence community has known for decades that right wing extremists are the most serious terrorist threat in this country. The GQP has worked very hard to prevent any serious investigation of racist and other right wing groups.

The GQP will resist anything that might identify racist, religious extremist, etc. groups as a threat - they are too important a part of the party base

[hibbing]

3. "broad review of political violence"

In other words equate Black Lives Matter protests with an insurrection.


Peace