Morning Memo: House GOP Leaders Urge ‘No’ Vote On Jan. 6 Select Committee Because Of Course They Are | Talking Points Memo

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.

GOP leadership is urging its members to vote against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) resolution creating a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.


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Isn’t “no” pretty much all they do nowadays?

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House GOP Leaders Urge ‘No’ Vote On Jan. 6 Select Committee Because Of Course They Are

“They urge…therefore they are” ???

Ummmm…WTF??

Another morning starting with something that makes my teeth hurt so badly I don’t want to read further…

If I contribute to Josh’s journalism fund, will they use some of the money for remedial grammar classes??

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It’s weird how getting shot in the brain hasn’t slowed Scalise down at all.

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He never got the message, missed it completely. It’s what makes crazy people crazy.

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Scalise is such a scumbag! The perfect face of the GQP House insurrectionist cover-up majority.

“This select committee is likely to pursue a partisan agenda to politicize the January 6th attack instead of conducting a good faith investigative effort into the actions leading up to and the security failures of the 6th,”

Well gee, Steve, why not a bipartisan Commission, then? Oh, yeah:

House Republican leaders made clear Tuesday [May 18, 2021] they are united in opposition to bipartisan legislation to create a commission to study the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, but fractures within their own party show the politically precarious nature of the vote and the divisions former President Donald Trump still sows.

Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., capped a day of GOP messaging on the bill Tuesday saying leaders recommend members vote “no” but are stopping short of conducting a formal whip count, a move that typically means leadership is encouraging the rank and file to vote their conscience.

But Scalise’s office also sent out an email to all Republican legislative directors suggesting leaders are indeed monitoring how caucus members plan to vote.

“IMPORTANT: If your boss intends to vote in favor of the bill, it is imperative that you contact the Whip Floor Team by email,” the email read.

He’s a hopeless racist and fascist.

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I hope the Rump-publicans huge security tab reflects their own supporters finally waking up after 40 years of being used and lied to.

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Steve, why do you hate America?

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This same crowd voted NO against the resolution to Stop Banghazi Investigatory Madness, too.

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Ha! They like being lied to. For proof, look at how they react when told the truth.

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FFS, this pandering to the worst people in society is getting out of hand. Just sneak a statue of Hitler in and let the wingnuts twist themselves into knots explaining why it shouldn’t be removed.

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Lactomiceophobia

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If a guy doesn’t get religion on gun control after literally being shot by a random nut, well, that’s pretty hopeless.

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OK, I’ll bite.

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David Duke without the baggage.

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Texas don’t need no stinking electric grid or schools or…
Abbott’s $250M border wall, brought to you by Biden’s $1.9T COVID-19 bailout (dallasnews.com)

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Obviously fear of mouse milk.

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I can’t think of any way that money could be better spent. In Texas. In the summer. Or the winter. Can’t think of a way.

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120 Republican…

  • CONFEDERACY PRESERVATIONISTS

judge them by their lack of principles and the repulsiveness of the hill upon which they choose to die.

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