McCarthy says Pelosi 'has broken this institution' by denying GOP picks for Jan. 6 select committee

Fox News ^ | 7/21/21 | Tyler Olson

[conservative98]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Wednesday said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi harmed the House as an institution and undermined the Jan. 6 select committee by choosing not to seat Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, who McCarthy chose to fill two of the five GOP slots on the committee.

"Speaker Pelosi has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party's picks for the Select Committee on Jan. 6. This represents something that has not happened in the House before for a select committee, by the historian," McCarthy, R-Calif., said at a press conference.

"It's an egregious abuse of power. Pelosi has broken this institution. Denying the voice of members who have served in the military – Jim Banks, a Navy veteran who served in Afghanistan," McCarthy continued. "As well as a leader of a standing committee. Jim Jordan isn't ranking of just his first committee, he's done it before."

McCarthy's fiery comments followed a statement he issued in which he said Republicans will completely boycott the select committee if Pelosi did not allow all five of his picks, including Jordan, R-Ohio, and Banks, R-Ind., to be seated.

"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.

The resolution passed by the House creating a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol required Pelosi to appoint five members to the committee "after consultation with the minority leader," but it gave her final veto power over the members. That language is often used in relation to select committees and special commissions, but the speaker's veto power is almost never exercised.

[RckyRaCoCo]

institution=cesspool

[EBH]

That is just it. They are not legit and Republicans would do well to fail to participate.

[Grampa Dave]

Putin Asks Reporter If US 'Assassinated' Ashli Babbitt!

Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2021 | Leah Barkoukis

During an interview with NBC News, Putin said Russia was no worse than the United States in this regard, and used the government's handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as an example.

Putin showed flashes of defiance when he was asked whether it was a "coincidence" that several other political rivals had been assassinated in recent years.

"We don't have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody," Putin said when he was asked whether he ordered Navalny killed. (NBC News)

He then countered by asking whether the U.S. was guilty of assassinating Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot.

“Secondly, I want to ask you: Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?” Putin said. “Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering Congress? And they didn’t go there to steal a laptop. They came with political demands. 450 people have been detained. They’re facing jail time, from 15 to 20 years. And they came to Congress with political demands. Isn’t that persecution for political opinions?”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/06/15/putin-ashli-babbitt-n2591004

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3967964/posts

"Someone needs to ask FBI liar, Chris Wray, how many of the US Capitol protesters were paid informants for the FBI?"

[Mathews]

She was given veto power? If that’s the case, he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

[tennmountainman]

Did McCarthy get his roommate Frank Luntz to conduct a panel to test
his response to Pelosi? Or were they both too busy in the bed?

[Gay State Conservative]

The Committee's Slogan

[Paladin2]

Kevin has been an integral part in breaking the place over the last decades.

[Carl Vehse]

BTW, has anyone see “Heels up” Harris in public lately?!?

[blackdog]

She is exactly the type who would kill a hundred million to keep her flow of gourmet ice cream and custom shoe closet. Emelda Marcos ain’t got nothing on Nancy Pelosi.

[BusterDog]

“That is as close as we are ever gonna see to him calling her out on it.”

*****

All talk and BOOM, BOMBSHELL, Told Ya!, Wow he got her!, watch this clip, send money . . . .

[BusterDog]

“BTW, has anyone see “Heels up” Harris in public lately?!?”

*****

She’s terrified she got the sick, won’t leave Walter Reed till she’s spent 14 days in isolation.

[Kevmo]

That’s about what we can expect.

[proust]

Nancy will never recover from this. /s

[DouglasKC]

The left is in full throated totalitarian mode. They have manufactured not one but two crisis's. The first is constant Covid all the time time. The second is that conservatives (or rather those against the swamp government) are insurrectionists. They've got the media blasting their messages 24x7. They've got big tech at their beck and call. They've got businesses under their thumb.

America is OVER.

[j.havenfarm]

So let me get this straight: she fills up the majority of the committee with particularly rabid Trump haters. Then she fills up the minority with RINO Trump haters.
She doesn’t lack for a pair, that’s for sure

[kabar]

Pelosi trying to cram everything in before the public learns the extent of election fraud. Maybe Nancy should not be the Speaker after all. A number of close House races won by Dems were actually lost. Lamb vs Parnell in PA for example.

[kabar]

Who says she had veto power?

[Spok]

The January 6 committee will accomplish 2 things: 1) Bash Trump. This will be Trump impeachment part III, and 2) continue to coverup for all time and eternity what really happened on 6 January.

[FlyingEagle]

The Totalitarian Marxists behind the concertina-wire Iron Curtain in DC do not even pretend anymore.

Bolshevics are ready to overthrow the Kerensky government. Pelosi is Alexander Kerensky, she is persuader-in-chief. Lenin is coming soon.

[redgolum]

Putin is a Bond villain. A bad actor.

He is also right in this case.