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(42,174 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)Because he's going to end up looking like the absolute ass he is.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)The contrast may be just what we need?
Champp
(2,114 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)They're covered as long as Nancy doesn't veto him.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)No way will Pelosi OK that dumb jerk to this Commission.
onenote
(42,759 posts)My prediction: she doesn't block any of them.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Thinking of Cheney...
onenote
(42,759 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Funny that Jordan leads with the junior varsity players. The B team. The A team appears somewhat sidelined.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)should veto ANYONE who voted against certifying the election.
onenote
(42,759 posts)Voted against certifying. Prediction: Pelosi doesn't veto any of them.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Why put anybody on her select committee that, by not voting to certify the election, or in
essence, agree with the rioters? F 'em.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)that it's not political, it's not personal, it's constitutional. They thwarted the constitutional process, and the Speaker is a constitutional office.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)reserved the right to veto, but I don't think she previously said she would veto anyone who voted against certifying the election.
mcar
(42,372 posts)Isn't Gym on every House committee that exists? How could he possibly have time for this?
haele
(12,676 posts)And how many of them are actually bad-faithed schemers who will dissemble and play word games to tank the commission.
I don't trust any of them to act in good faith.
Haele
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)He always makes me think of this witty line from Dr. Seuss,
"I do not like this one so well
All he does is yell, yell, Yell!
I do not care to have him about
So when he comes in, I put him out."
onetexan
(13,058 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Walleye
(31,046 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)That should do it!
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), a GOP rising star and the leader of the powerful Republican Study Committee, a caucus of conservatives that includes the majority of House Republicans, has been tapped as the ranking member.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the bombastic top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and a fierce Trump ally who has nonetheless broken with some of his colleagues in the Freedom Caucus when it comes to downplaying the Jan. 6 attack.
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the chair of the House Administration Committee and a relative moderate in his caucus who was one of 35 House Republicans to vote to create a bipartisan commission to probe the attack, which was blocked by Senate Republicans.
Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), one of seven House Republicans who signed a letter criticizing objections to President Joe Bidens electoral college victory, which a majority of House Republicans voted for even after the Jan. 6 attack.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), the only freshman on the list and a former county sheriff who, like Banks and Jordan, voted for objections to Bidens victory.
Reached for comment, Pelosi spokesperson Drew Hammill told Forbes he just received the names, adding, Stay tuned.
Forbes has reached out to McCarthys office for comment.
KEY BACKGROUND
The text of the resolution creating the committee which passed the House last month with the votes of all Democrats and two Republicans allows Pelosi to appoint all 13 members of the committee, including five after consultation with McCarthy. Earlier this month, Pelosi tapped Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who voted for the committee, and seven Democrats to serve on the committee.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/07/19/these-are-the-5-republicans-mccarthy-picked-for-the-jan-6-select-committee/
The other members are
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who will lead the panel
Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va.
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/pelosi-names-liz-cheney-other-members-of-jan-6-committee-to-probe-pro-trump-riot.html
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Blathering blithering rude, childish idiot never does anything but hysterically and shrilly scream incomprehensible drivel in that shrill, annoying, utterly intolerable voice that makes it impossible for anyone to listen to him.