The House passed the resolution to set up a Jan. 6 select committee Wednesday on a near party-line 222-190 vote.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1379526
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1379526
And then there were two.
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Well, two still makes it “bipartisan”, so there is that.
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Qevin MqQarthy’s best move would be to refuse to name any Republican member to the committee, let Speaker Pelosi pick all 13 members on her own, denounce the whole thing as a partisan witch hunt, and steadfastly ignore everything that comes out of it.
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I wonder if Pelosi got buy in from Cheney and Kinzinger to join the committee. Both of them will grab media attention and legitimize it from a ‘bipartisan’ sense. If not, I think Pelosi could appoint some former GOP officials or anti-Trump GOPers to the committee. They should have professional counsel asking a large portion of the questions. The 911 Commission had slick presentation and was sort of made for TV. Pelosi will need to work on the marketing of this, too, to draw the cameras and make the GOP have to deal with the daily headlines.
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Republicans are afraid of the truth. They’d rather shove January 6 down the memory hole because it will expose members in their caucus as participants.
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I’m pretty sure the committee members have to be sitting members of the House, don’t they?
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It has begun then.
And Rumsfeld has left the planet.
Progress.
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There is a short list of people whose death I will openly celebrate, and Rummy is near the top of that list, edging in just below Rush.
ETA: it’s a tossup, because the hate radio bloviator was a one-man propaganda factory working to destroy any sense of shared citizenship amongst Americans, but Rummy personally oversaw the unnecessary killing of untold thousands of humans.
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They’ll definitely ignore everything that comes out of the witch hunt, especially the cackling crones on brooms that pour out by the hundreds.
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And enters the gates of Hell.
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“It is right to be wary of an overtly partisan inquiry,” Cheney wrote in a statement released just before the vote. “But Congress is obligated to conduct a full investigation of the most serious attack on our Capitol since 1814.”
“I believe this select committee is our only remaining option,” she added.
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When Liz Cheney has your back… 
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Off to explore those things that we know we don’t know, those things in the area east, west, south and north somewhat.
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I’d have to research the tally, but I wonder if his numbers exceed someone else’s 600,000?
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Exactly. It doesn’t matter how many GOPers voted for or against it. Two voted for it and that makes it a bipartisan effort.
That’s pretty much all he’s got left, but ignoring it is the one thing Trump and his idiotic base will never allow McCarthy to do. Every time something big comes out, the base, the Conservative Entertainment Complex, and Trump will run it up and down the field screaming about how unfair and untrue it is. No allegation will be ignored because the idiots will never let it be.
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He’d do that if he was the Speaker and he hand picked all the members himself. And all 13 were Republicans.
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My immediate reaction too.
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When faced with a binary choice Republicans reject Option A as unacceptable on its face therefore concluding they are obligated to reject Option B as unacceptable on its face.
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It’s pretty much his only move, it’s not like he has any leadership skills, he doesn’t. All he can do is lead from behind.
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Only the good die young…
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