Marjorie Taylor Greene
@mtgreenee
You’re not serious, clear eyed, or nonpartisan.
Accepting a seat on a highly partisan witch hunt, assigned by an old Democrat woman who is filled with bitter hate and rage and failed to secure the Capitol, isn’t a call to duty, it means you’re a traitor.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1419415393886691330
Adam Kinzinger
@RepKinzinger
Today, I was asked to serve on the bipartisan January 6th Select Committee and I humbly accepted. When duty calls, I will always answer.
https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1419329112125149187
Anything-but-bipartisan 1/6 commission will seal Pelosi’s retirement. Here’s why
BY JOE CONCHA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 07/26/21
VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
FTA:
For the good of the country, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can’t retire soon enough.
The latest reason comes in the form of the joke that is her Jan. 6 commission to investigate the riot at the Capitol on that horrific day for the country. Note: The formation of a commission has bipartisan support. The tragic and chilling events of 1/6 are as worthy of any commission our leaders have put together in the past. But such a commission needs to be free of the kind of ultra-partisan politics on which Pelosi has built her soon-to-be-over career.
Example: The 9/11 Commission, led by former (moderate) New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean (R) and former (moderate) Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton (D). Those testifying included then-President George W. Bush, then-V.P. Dick Cheney, then-Sec. of State Colin Powell, along with former President Bill Clinton, former V.P. Al Gore and former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright.
President Biden and Pelosi have no interest in putting together a fair, balanced, truth-seeking commission here as it pertains to 1/6, which some Democrats have stunningly (and stupidly) argued was worse than 9/11. Instead, the House speaker has appointed the usual Democrats to the commission, along with staunch anti-Trump Republicans, including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).
Part of Pelosi’s plan to work with Republicans seems to be to reject those who would inquire about why she rejected pleas from Capitol Police to increase security ahead of Jan. 6.
“Due to the rules of the United States Capitol, the power structure of the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the Capitol Police than anyone else in the United States Capitol,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
“So she doesn’t want us to ask these questions because at the end of the day, she is ultimately responsible for the breakdown of security at the capitol that happened on January 6,” he added. “Whether it’s Speaker Pelosi or Liz Cheney or anyone who sits on this committee, it’s clear that those are questions that we should be demanding answers to. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want me on that committee, but she also doesn’t want us to ask those questions because it leads to a series of answers that don’t fit her narrative.”
Note: Bank was among a group of Republicans Pelosi rejected for the commission.
If Cheney or Kinzinger are truly the patriots speaking truth to power that they claim to be, they should ask the same questions Banks intended to before being nixed by Pelosi.
In the end, Democrats know they’re in serious trouble. They see Biden polling at 38 percent on his handling of skyrocketing crime in this country, an issue his party owns after calls for defunding police/reallocating police funds while looting and rioting dubbed as “mostly peaceful” protests engulfed American cities last summer.
The 1/6 commission and all the theatrics that most of cable news will hype to the tilt won’t change what’s coming.
In fact, if the two road-to-nowhere impeachments Pelosi’s presided over are any indication, this hyper-partisan commission will only make the blue team look more desperate.
The WINNEGAGO GOP placed billboards throughout ROCKFORD congratulating KINZINGER for upholding the Constitution with his traitorous actions.