"Here's What to Expect from the 5 Republicans daddy Trump let his Kevin put on the Jan. 6 Committee"

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://thebulwark.com/heres-what-to-expect-from-the-republicans-on-the-jan-6-committee/

After a pilgrimage to Bedminster to get the blessing of the GOP’s Apricot Archbishop, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy announced yesterday that he would after all appoint Republican members to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.

McCarthy had vacillated for weeks on the decision. Politico reported that he considered “naming more experienced members to the probe, filling his seats with firebrands, and refusing to tap any members at all.”

In the end the invertebrate House minority leader took the most low-risk path he could, appointing a pair of firebrands named Jim to please Daddy T and filling the other committee seats with lesser-known members, including one in his first term. Among McCarthy’s picks there are two more appointees named Jim than there are women or people of color. Take a look.

McCarthy reportedly had some difficulty finding Republican representatives willing to participate in the committee—but Jim Jordan was undoubtedly eager to join. Everyone knows what to expect from Jordan, the sweaty, jacketless, former wrestling coach who worked alongside a serial sexual assaulter while simultaneously not ever seeming to notice and allegedly telling one of his wrestlers he should help cover it up. Given this expertise, Trump surely wanted Jordan on the committee.

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[kentuck]

1. I would guess that if Nancy were to turn down Jim Jordan...

McCarthy would be ordered by Trump to withdraw all the names?

He wants someone that can defend him, no matter what he did, and who can divide the Committee by chaos and distraction.

[Nevilledog]

2. Only two of the 5 didn't support not certifying the election. That should be disqualifying.

If Pelosi doesn't exercise her right to keep these people off the committee I will be pissed.

[kentuck]

4. They may decide they can make it with a couple of less-vocal proponents of Trump?

But they can't do it with a bomb-thrower like Jordan.

I agree that none of them should be on the Committee if they believe the election was not legitimate.

[lagomorph777]

3. She had better reject Gym and the other two who voted to overthrow the government.

[nykym]

5. I would sure hope

that the committee chair has a mute button for each member's microphone.