mccarthy has let us know there will be zero participation by reThugs in the Jan.6 investigation

[spanone]

This will be just like the two farcical impeachment 'trials' of tfg.

America may be deceased as we know it.

I hope Democrats are ready to play hardball.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP is at war with us. Time we wrapped our heads around this fact.

[2naSalit]

3. Saw that clearly over the past decade...

But now we are "there". We have to all be on total alert from now on, for a long time.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yep. We have been in a civil war for some time.

I kept warning about it, but finally people are seeing what we are up against.

The GOP consists of ruthless sociopaths who will stop at nothing to gain total power and control.
And secure vast wealth. They care nothing about this country or its citizens.

As American civilian casualties continue to mount, perhaps people will finally start seeing the light.

[gab13by13]

2. They are already participating,

the select committee is bipartisan no matter what McCarthy says.

[spanone]

7. They are threatening social media and telecom companies that cooperate.

kinzinger and cheney are traitors to them

[OnDoutside]

8. Versus those companies defying a subpoena. Their talk is cheap.

[panader0]

27. Does the select committee have the legal authority to subpoena the telecom records?

[spanone]

28. They must, they asked the telecom & social media companies to preserve the records

[Kid Berwyn]

33. Obstruction of Justice.

Just saying.

[spanone]

6. I would 100% agree with that.

[FoxNewsSucks]

18. AMEN!

I'm so sick of elected Democrats acting as if they have all the time in the world.

Republicons will be back in control soon, thanks to certain Democrats, and all of this will be ended. They'll get away with everything again. The next republicon president will probably pardon whichever of their pissant footsoldiers did get arrested.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. In agreement.

[toasty]

26. Agree n/t

[ShazzieB]

19. Yes, please.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Biden certainly is, I have no doubt.

[doc03]

10. My opinion it is too late, the country has moved

on. Most of America have forgotten about Jan 6th. They forgot who sent us into Afganistan and was responsible for thousands of deaths. The subject now is blaming Biden for 13 deaths. The good news this too will pass. When the Senate refused to do anything months ago that ended it.

[mackdaddy]

11. They hopefully will be participating... As subpoenaed witnesses.

Already their phone records are participating in the process....

[lagomorph777]

12. My thought exactly. McCarthy is just thinking wishfully.

He and others will be there, on the stand, under penalty of jail.

[CrispyQ]

13. The dems haven't played hardball in ages. It's partly why we're where we're at.

If House subpoenas are as effective as the Muller subpoenas were, then the results will be just as disappointing.

Bye-bye rule of law.

[malaise]

14. Except that this time elected ReTHUGs will also

be under investigation.

[spanone]

15. that will only cause them to double down....claim it's all politics...ignore subpoenas

take everything to the courts.

lie

obfuscate

delay

hope I'm wrong.

[malaise]

20. Should be fun watching the party of law and order

violate both the law and the Constitution

[spanone]

24. And we know they will.

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. Nice, but unnecessary, to let us know.

No one expected anything different from those assholes.

[monkeyman1]

17. McCarthy is dog meat now !

he is scared stiff of all this crap coming out & he know's testimony is not going to be good for him & the rest of the gang !

[slightlv]

22. I have a serious question

I'm in Kansas. All my reps are R's. Is it taboo for me to try to email Pelosi, as Majority Leader of the Democrats? I mean, I'm 65 and I've been a Dem since I could first vote at 18. Surely there's someone to hear me? I spend every election day telling myself I'm voting and it counts... somehow... even tho KS always majorities out as R. But now I really need it to mean something to some Democrat someplace high up. There's too much going on... I feel like I'm dying here... screaming into the wind... am I just nobody, because I live in an "R" state?

[spanone]

25. Here is Speaker Pelosi's contact info: https://www.speaker.gov/contact

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. John Gotti and Al Capone would have preferred the same thing.

To prevent the investigations of their activities.

[TNNurse]

29. Doesn't the House have the subpoena power and the authority

to arrest people who do not comply????

[spanone]

31. Yes: If Republicans won't cooperate with the January 6 commission, arrests could be made

“Democrats had better demonstrate that they are serious and bring the hammer of the system. What the hell do you have subpoena power for? What the hell do you have a Sergeant-at-Arms with the authority to arrest for?’

Nearly seven months after a violent mob attempted to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral college win, a select committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans convened what will be the first of many hearings that committee members plan to use to tell a definitive story of the worst attack on the Capitol since Admiral Sir George Cockburn ordered its burning in August 1814.

The committee’s investigation is the House’s second attempt to bring about accountability for any Trump administration officials and Republican members of Congress who may have played a role into fomenting the events of the day. The first, a brief inquiry which led to former President Donald Trump becoming the first American president to face two Senate impeachment trials, was limited by both time constraints and the Trump administration’s wholesale rejection of the Democratic-led chamber’s investigative authority.

But even with the White House — and the executive branch — under the control of Biden and his appointees, it remains unclear whether officials of the former administration will cooperate. Also unclear is whether Democrats will be willing to do what is necessary to secure testimony from a stable of GOP witnesses that could include their own colleagues and the former president.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/capitol-commission-republicans-arrests-b1891650.html

[kentuck]

32. It is my opinion that Democrats cannot battle the Republicans without the Courts...

The courts have to be involved. It is not simple political differences. There are laws that need to be defined and followed through. For example, when the judge ruled that Trump did not have to turn all his tax returns over to the Congress, that should have been appealed to the courts, in my opinion.