Giving Nancy Her Due
I shudder to think where we would be today without the leadership of Nancy Pelosi. When the Republicans shot down the idea of a bi-partisan Commission to investigate the attack upon our Capitol, Nancy worked with Minority Leader McCarthy to create a bi-partisan Congressional Committee to do the work. McCarthy tried to slip in a couple of insurrectionist sympathizers and Nancy immediately advised him to get two different members that were serious about the investigation.
However, McCarthy balked. At the urging of Donald Trump, he withdrew all Republican members of the proposed Committee.
The whole idea of a Committee to investigate the crime of January 6th could have fallen apart at that time. But Nancy persisted. She recruited two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, to serve on a bi-partisan Committee.
Where would we be today if Nancy had not created the Select Committee? Where would we be today if we had depended on the Justice Department to do the investigation alone? I doubt that we would have half the information we have today.
Nancy Pelosi kept the issue alive. She was not going to let it be swept under the rug or let it die without the facts being presented to the American people. America owes her a huge debt of gratitude.
Then yesterday, we saw the new video from January 6th, with Nancy taking charge and leading the defense of our Capitol. All this time, we were told that it was Mike Pence that called the National Guard and got the re-inforcements to the Capitol. We now see that it was not Pence. It was Nancy Pelosi calling the Governors of Maryland and Virginia to get them to send National Guard to assist them. She called for assistance from their state police forces. She called the Mayor of DC to get help with more police to help clear the Capitol.
Although Pence did an admirable job of sticking to his guns and daring to come back to lead the count of the electoral votes, it now appears that it was Nancy Pelosi that was calling in the National Guard to clear the mob and to protect our democracy.
Also, it now appears, in my opinion, that her actions foiled the master plan of Trump and the insurrectionists. In my opinion, some Republican that was close to Nancy, as she was calling for the state police and the National Guard, may have called Mark Meadows to let Trump know that the National Guard was on its way and they were going to clean up the mess in the Capitol. That is when Trump decided to give his "love you" speech to his mob. The QRF, with their stash of weapons across the river, did not have time to make it back to occupy the Capitol, which was their plan, in my opinion. Their coup had been foiled.
Nancy Pelosi deserves a whole lot of credit.
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