Pundit Klein Bottle: His Head Is That Far up His Ass

“The committee on the insurrection needs both pro and anti insurrection members, for balance” is an expression of how uncomfortable mainstream objective journalists are in the current environment and how badly they want to get back to the pre-Trump equilibrium

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 22, 2021

This is What Happened in the Iran Contra Hearings

I am referring, of course, to Chris Celizza, who insists that Nancy Pelosi denying seats on the panel to investigate the January 6 insurrection to participants in the conspiracy to foment said insurrection is a mistake

Why is it a mistake? Because allowing Republicans to sabotage an investigation in furtherance of sedition is bipartisan.

I can't even:

So what does he think a committee with two people dedicated to nothing but sabotaging the investigation look like? As is usual with this kind of punditry, he doesn’t even disagree with Pelosi on the merits!

Pelosi and her Democratic defenders will cast the decision as the only one she really had available to her after McCarthy made his picks known earlier this week. And it’s beyond debate that McCarthy’s choices — especially Banks and Jordan — were aimed at turning the committee into something of a circus. Both men would have, at every turn, sought to turn the tables on Democrats — using the platform provided by the committee to push debunked claims about Antifa’s involvement in the Capitol riot, questioning Democratic leadership’s readiness for just such an attack and trying to broaden the committee’s mandate to cover the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020.

Seriously, why does ANYONE pay people like this to write, and why does anyone read these people.

Eventually, they will all turn up in the morgue with a toe-tag saying, "Intellectually exhausted and morally bankrupt."