Could very well be….
With the only one Republican in the House group working to present a report on their scary January 6 experience?
The Republican House Minority leader may have outsmarted himself….
Playbook: “If Pelosi gave McCarthy a gift for his own base Wednesday, McCarthy handed the speaker one in return for hers: His announcement that he would withdraw all his members from the panel unless she reverses course is exactly what a lot of Democrats were hoping for.”
“Now, Democrats (plus Rep. Liz Cheney) can subpoena whomever they want, whenever they want, without any protest. If they decide to have closed-door depositions with Trump White House officials, the former president will have no spies in the room to report back. And the public hearings will be free of GOP complaints. In that regard, perhaps, Pelosi may say the move was worth it.”
Plum Line: “By pulling out, McCarthy has boosted the committee’s legitimacy and credibility immeasurably. The less involved McCarthy is with this committee, the more likely it will be to undertake a genuine and comprehensive accounting.”
image…businessinsider.com
Note….
I hope Nancy Pelosi does NOT retire anytime soon….
She is back on her game….
Both sides think the other side gave them a “gift.”
Pelosi did exactly what McCarthy wanted her to do it and they will run on that and the Democrats will of course run against them on it. The link here from Politico of course presents both sides of the argument and james just takes from it what he wants to focus on.
Whether Pelosi was right on the merits or not, she should have perhaps not given the “gift” to McCarthy. and let things continue.
The bottom line is that this is all a very choreographed political dance that is unfortunate for the country.
The bottom like IS that McCarthy and Co. have tried EVERYTHING they could after being being scared shitless to forget their situation on Jan.6……
In doing so?
They shamed the law, their own government and THEMSELVES…..
Props to Pelosi for setting up a report to the public….
Republicans don’t want to revisit this because they ARE gonna look complicit….
WHICH SOME OF THEM WERE
and politically speaking, Pelosi’s actions give them cover to claim that she wants everything to be one sided and thus not legitimate.
Whether that is true or not is immaterial. It is what will be said politically and she allowed that to happen,
In a response to a request by Republican House member Liz Cheney…..
Pelosi May Tap Ex-GOP Congressman as Adviser
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering inviting former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) to serve as an adviser to the House select committee investigating the January 6 riots, ABC News reports.
I just (sadly) see what we saw before with the Trump/Russia and Trump/Ukraine congressional investigations: little is established that each side did not already believe (and want the country to believe).