Posted on 07/21/2021 11:12:12 AM PDT by conservative98
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday she's rejecting two of the five GOP picks to sit on the newly formed Jan. 6 select committee.
Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday she won't appoint Reps. Jim Jordan from Ohio or Jim Banks from Indiana – two strong allies of former President Donald Trump – to the committee formed to investigate the cause of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and make recommendations on preventing future violence.
Her decision immediately sparked backlash from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who called Pelosi's move "unprecedented" and threatened to have all Republicans boycott the committee if Jordan and Banks didn't get appointed.
"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 in a statement.
Jordan has been a dogged defender of Trump and serves as the top GOP member of the Judiciary Committee. He dismissed the new select committee as "Impeachment Round 3" and a new platform to go after the former president.
"Speaker Pelosi just admitted the obvious, that the Jan. 6 Select Committee is nothing more than a partisan political charade," Jordan said in response to being rejected.
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You don’t make threats unless you are prepared to follow through. RINO McCarthy is a gutless, ball-less wonder.
Roland Freisler is willing to serve on the committee at any time.
House Democrats must answer this question: “Why are you allowing a lame-duck Speaker to destroy this institution?”
This is the People’s House, not Pelosi’s House. https://t.co/NweMZRJ0MR— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 21, 2021
Actually McCarthy is happy they got banned.
He is weak and ineffective as a leader.
His threats carry no weight.
Palsy just drove into the ditch. Amazingly, the GOP has decided to let her.
Of course that’s counting our chickens. The smart money is on the Reps finding a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Pelosi just handed McCarthy a golden opportunity. He should now boycott the hearings and paint them as a partisan whitewash. Is he smart enough to recognize a gift when someone hands it to him?
Threatens?!
BOYCOTT IT NOW!
In fact, demand her resignation immediately as she is obviously biased and unfit to hold the office - I DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY! I DEMAND REPRESENTATION!
That’s what he is doing right now.
Watch the video.
Anyone called in front of that sham committee should answer with only this phrase. “under advise of my attorney I choose to invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendmat.” To Every question asked by the Pelosi Nazis.
The leadership of the opposing party gets to tell the other party’s leadership who can and cannot be appointed to their side of the committee now? This is really getting tyrannical - literally.
This is why Pelosi appointed Liz Cheney into one of her slots so she and the press can call it a “bipartisan investigation.” And that’s exactly what they will do.
Where will her committee get it’s Money ?
Pulled for what reason?......Cheney said so.
“You don’t make threats unless you are prepared to follow through.”
The second rule in a crisis situation! (Arnold -Twins)
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