McCarthy pulls his 5 GOP members from 1/6 committee after Pelosi rejects 2 of his picks

[George II]

Source: CNN

CNN — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pulling his five Republican members selected to join the House committee that’s investigating the January 6 insurrection, following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two of McCarthy’s 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 Pelosi’s 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

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This broke just minutes after Pelosi rejected Banks and Jordan.

[genxlib]

1. What he wanted all the time

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.

[Walleye]

6. Agree

[mpcamb]

41. Pelisi should invite the 3 picked to committee meetings. That's bipartisan.

[DemocraticPatriot]

22. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer from Michigan, I would suggest for two...

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]

2. What he wanted all the time

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]

3. I Love The Squeal, Sir

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]

4. Jordan and Banks should both be put on the witness list.

I wonder if she's asked Adam Kinzinger or John Katko.

[George II]

21. Liz Cheney said almost outright that they're material witnesses in the investigation....

She spoke briefly about 3:00 today to reporters. There's a video of it on the Home Page.

[Roy Rolling]

35. That's what I want to hear

It’s 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 can’t be ruled out. Therefore, say it out loud Democrats. Fill in the blanks in people’s minds with possibilities.

[colsohlibgal]

5. No Surprise

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]

7. Someone should point out that the insurrection was the most partisan thing that's ever happened

[IcyPeas]

8. yes, but the insurrection was Pelosi's fault doncha know?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

15. I remember Pelosi telling TFG's supporters to come to Washington because, "It will be wild!" nt

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Not playing ball with Kev's games

Way to go!

[PlanetBev]

11. Bunch of fucking infants

That’s right, pick up your ball and bat and go home.

[KS Toronado]

12. " will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts," McCarthy said "

Can he do that without Nancy's permission?

[Aristus]

13. "Our own investigation" sounds a lot like the "my own research" horseshit the anti-vaxxers do.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. 1/6 was simply a protest and visit brought about by ...

BENGHAZIIIIII!!!!!!11!!

[SunSeeker]

39. Or when OJ said he was going to look for the real killer.

[oldsoftie]

40. He's still tirelessly searching.......

[bucolic_frolic]

14. McCarthy trying to get the upper hand but he's got nothing, not even a smidge of credibility

Everyone knows he's in TFG's pocket and would wink at the insurrection in a heartbeat

[BlueIdaho]

16. These posers wouldn't know the truth

If it bit them on the ass. We’re better off without them.

[Marthe48]

17. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Maybe r's will mass resign and let the U.S. relive sanity in politics.

[joetheman]

18. But we knew that, didn't we.

Dems looking good now. Go for it!

[DemocraticPatriot]

19. "WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If I can't have my way,

I'm taking my ball and going home!"

Screw him. Liz Cheney is good enough for me.

[turbinetree]

20. Sham process.........ever hear of perjury McCarthy, remember the phone call on 1/6/2021

you will be fucking asked....

[Beastly Boy]

23. If I were Pelosi, I would appoint Banks, Davis and Armstrong over McCarthy's head and

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]

31. Make them deny their seat on camera.

[Karma13612]

44. Hmmph,

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]

25. LOL, he calls it a "SHAM PROCESS"

no facts for the GOP!

[LiberalLovinLug]

26. And then he dares to call it purposely partisan. Are Republican voters THAT dumb?

[JohnnyRingo]

29. They believe Trump won by a landslide.

Work backwards from there.

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. They reverse engineer their reality

to when orange numbnuts was President, and that is where their reality parks its ass.

[oasis]

27. McCarthy's a half assed checker player. Pelosi's a chess grand master. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

28. "...our own investigation of the facts".

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]

30. Does McCarthy have another foot to shoot?

[monkeyman1]

36. he's running out of body part's !

[EndlessWire]

32. I don't care if any Repub participates

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]

33. Obstruct, Obstruct, Obstruct

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]

34. Yet ANOTHER loser. Ass kissing McCarthy. nt

[monkeyman1]

37. dumb ass can't figure out he is a witness!

[SunSeeker]

38. And this hurts us how?

Seems like the committee will run much better now.

[Karma13612]

43. Well, we

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 can’t 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 I’m sure it’s coming sooner than later.

[SunSeeker]

45. It was going to be called biased no matter what, particularly by Gym Jordan -- the whole time.

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]

46. Taken care of!

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]

47. Kevin thinks that this is how he will get Nancy's job.

[rpannier]

48. McCarthy would likely have objected to the War Crimes Tribunal

not including any Nazis in Europe, nor any Imperial Japanese politicos in Asia