Nancy Pelosi's response to Kevin McCarthy's tantrum refusing to appoint any Republicans to the committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection is to is to appoint Adam Kinzinger as the 2nd Republican on the panel.
Just to remind those of you have been living in a cave, Kinzinger, and fellow Republican on this committee, Liz Cheney, both voted to impeach Donald Trump.
There were 8 other Republicans* who voted to impeach, and perhaps some of them would like to be on the committee as well.
Keep turning the knife, Nancy.
The carrot has not worked for at least 40 years. Go with the stick, and shove it where the sun don't shine:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday appointed Representative Adam Kinzinger to the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, adding a second Republican who is a forceful critic of former President Donald J. Trump to the panel.
The move, which bolsters the committee’s bipartisan credentials, came after Ms. Pelosi rejected two Republicans who are among Mr. Trump’s most vociferous defenders in Congress from joining, saying their conduct suggested they could not be trusted to participate.
Mr. Kinzinger, a six-term congressman from Illinois who has drawn censure from his own party for disavowing Mr. Trump and the conspiracy theories the former president perpetuated, said in a statement that he had accepted the post.
“While this is not the position I expected to be in or sought out, when duty calls, I will always answer,” said Mr. Kinzinger, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump. “This moment requires a serious, cleareyed, nonpartisan approach. We are duty bound to conduct a full investigation on the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814 and to make sure it can never happen again.”
Ms. Pelosi, who has final say over the committee’s membership, has already given one of the eight seats normally reserved for the majority party to Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming. Ms. Cheney was ousted from House leadership in May for criticizing Mr. Trump and his actions before and during the riot.
Democrats have been fetishizing bipartisanship for a very long time, and Republicans have been weaponizing this for almost as long.
This time, they are literally trying to protect people who intended to murder you.
Democrats need to get a clue about this, and stop acting like an abused spouse.
*John Katko (NY), Fred Upton (MI), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA), Dan Newhouse (WA), Peter Meijer (MI), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Tom Rice (SC), and David Valadao (CA).
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