Kevin McCarthy Names Insurrection Pals To January 6 Commission, For Balance

[Nevilledog]

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has named five Republican House members to the Select Committee that will investigate the January 6 insurrection. Following the deadly invasion of the US Capitol on that day, three of McCarthy's five picks nonetheless voted against certifying the 2020 election. Having people on the commission who shared the goals of the insurrectionists seems only fair. After all, didn't the 9/11 Commission include several members of al Qaeda?

That McCarthy named anyone to be on the committee (I almost typed "serve," what a silly fellow I am!) is itself likely to piss off some of the more flammable members of the Trump coalition, because isn't that playing right into Nancy Pelosi's hands and giving too much legitimacy to this witch hunt for Q Shamans? But McCarthy apparently decided it would be better to have his people inside the tent pissing on reality than to have a committee made up solely of people who'd focus on facts.

We should point out right up front that because the legislation setting up the select committee says GOP members would be appointed "in consultation with the minority leader," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has the option of vetoing any or all of McCarthy's picks, which she should damn well do. If McCarthy can't find five members who didn't vote to overthrow democracy, that's too bad.

McCarthy's picks include Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and first-term Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas. CNN has a quick rundown of how they behaved following the election and the insurrection:

Banks, Jordan and Nehls were among the 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential results in Arizona and Pennsylvania. Davis and Armstrong voted to certify the presidential election.

Banks and Jordan were also part of the group of Republicans to sign onto the Texas lawsuit that sought to invalidate the ballots of millions of voters in four battleground states, but was swiftly blocked by the Supreme Court.

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[sakabatou]

1. I agree, they should be vetoed.

[samsingh]

2. for every US loving Democrat on the panel, the stupid repug has a traitor who hates the US

[GoCubsGo]

3. I am assuming that Speaker Pelosi already knows that Banks' communication director

is Buckley Swanson Peck(erwood)Carlson, the putrid son of Fucker Carlson, and will act accordingly.

[vlyons]

4. I hope Pelosi nixes the 3 traitors

nt