Can someone educate me what happened today on the Capitol steps?

[KS Toronado]

Was watching CSPAN this morning when they showed Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi leading House members
and others to the Capitol steps for a Jan 6th Memorial.

This picture shows the overall size of the gathering and my first thought was that appears to be an awful small
crowd if all House members were there.

Did all the reQublicOn MAGAt members of the House refuse to go out for a photo shoot?

[Rhiannon12866]

1. It was a memorial for those who were injured or killed on January 6th

But only one Republican Congress member showed up, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), that was it.

[KS Toronado]

5. Wasn't he one of the few Rs

that voted to impeach?

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I looked it up, he voted "no" on impeachment.

[Deminpenn]

18. Fitzpatrick also holds a red seat in a sea of SE PA blue

My guess is he'll be the R liason with the Dems. I'd look for Brendan Boyle, Dwight Evans and Madeline Dean, all the CDs surrounging Fitzpatrick's, to be significant behind-the-scenes players for the Dems working with Fitzpatrick, who is part of R leadership, on "must pass" bills.

[BittyJenkins]

2. I heard it was the house dems and one republican.

They had a moment of silence. What a sad bunch republicans are.

[KS Toronado]

6. I've got more adjectives than "sad bunch" for them now.

[jaxexpat]

16. You'd be sad too if you had to sit on your hands all the time.

[wishstar]

3. Also at the moment of silence observed inside the chamber, only Repub Liz Cheney showed up

and she's no longer a sitting member, so Repubs essentially boycotted both the outside and inside remembrances. Almost all have chosen to ignore or lie about the violence and destruction caused by their fellow Repubs on Jan 6.

[KS Toronado]

4. HOLY COW, they're boycotting as a group?

What's next Dec 7th or 9/11? Our 3 days that will live in infamy and they're saying "Nothing to see here" ?
My evening ABC news said nothing about Rs ignoring Jan 6th activities, wonder if any of MSM reported
on their inaction? Did FQX brag about owning the libs today?

We need to document this and use it against them. Liz showed up and she doesn't even work there anymore.

[SheltieLover]

8. I'm sure SC Smith will clean this mess up!

[calimary]

9. Well, somebody needs to!

[SheltieLover]

11. Absolutely!

[KS Toronado]

10. Love to see him jail the guided tour leaders.

Do not pass go, do not collect $179,000 gov. paycheck for being in jail.
Staying away from high water I hope my friend.

[SheltieLover]

12. Yup, me too!

All ruskie assets!

[SheltieLover]

13. He just hired 2 hardball lawyers specifically to prosecute congress traitors

There were posts here on DU about this yesterday!

[KS Toronado]

14. Yes, I just read that one Sheltie a few minutes ago

[SheltieLover]

15. Hahaha!

Cute!

I didn't want you to despair amid this qpuke shit show.

[KS Toronado]

17. No despair here, I see a Huge Blue Wave coming in 2024

because of what Kevin McCarthy and his clan have planned to investigate and look into, lots of shit getting
ready to backfire on them. Kind of hard to be pointing fingers at Nancy Pelosi being responsible for Jan 6th
happenings when Jack Smith or DOJ is arresting you.