Kevin McCarthy Contemplates Best Way To Ratf*ck January 6 Commission

[Nevilledog]

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Kevin McCarthy is in a pickle.

The House minority leader's own party played footsie with the rioters who overran the Capitol on January 6, and he himself has already admitted that Trump bears responsibility for the violence that day. Then his lieutenants painstakingly negotiated a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack, only to see a panel that would give Republicans everything they wanted get tanked by Republicans in the Senate. And now that Democrats have established a Select Committee to investigate the insurrection — i.e. do Congress's damn job — McCarthy is faced with a dilemma.

Should he participate and try to blow up the process from within, or stand on the sidelines and denigrate the findings as a partisan smear job when it reveals that multiple members of his own caucus gave aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy just six short months ago?

According to the Politico Huddle, McCarthy has largely ruled out the second option and will soon appoint five members to the panel. The issue is now whether to try to turn the whole thing into a circus by unleashing freaks like Matt Gaetz on the committee, or to go with members of his caucus with some actual credibility who might be able to push back against Democratic narratives and release a minority report blaming Antifa or the FBI or the Pope.

To make matters worse, it's only the freaks who are lining up to take the assignment, with Reps. Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert hot to trot, while their more serious colleagues — if only by comparison — are running for the hills, refusing to take part in a process that will brand them as traitors to their own kind if they participate in good faith.

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[MiHale]

1. His butt still hurts from the trump spanking...

Weak-willed coward first denounced trump then got slapped around at Mar-a-lardo forgetting his previous condemnation. SAD!

[Submariner]

2. The GOP reps who voted against certification before their Coup failed

cannot under any circumstances be part of the commission that will be hanging their treasonous asses. So Jordan and Stefanik ,for starters, are ineligible traitors.

[crickets]

6. That's fair. It's a great way to disqualify the nutjobs. 👍

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Great midterm strategy McCarthy, stand with the anti-democratic insurrectionists.

[modrepub]

4. Keeps Them Engaged

The circus will continue to attract attention. It's all about getting their base to show up and hope the other side isn't engaged or motivated on election day. Or better yet, hope that there are enough hurdles placed in front of their opponents to prevent them from even voting.

Keeping your base angry and or scared is a great way to ensure they'll show up on election day. This strategy works for both parties but is very fatiguing (and probably unhealthy) for some. The Republican "stick in the mud"/sh-t show approach can work if enough people become frustrated and decide this battle just isn't worth it and stay home on election day.

All the pundits believe the House will switch in 2022. Republicans skew among the most likely to show up at the polls; old/white/males. Democratic support is in the minority/female/young groups that have historically not consistently shown up on election day. This off-year primary in my state only reenforces my dread for next year because I don't see this pattern changing.

[kentuck]

5. He is likely having a difficult time finding someone that is not complicit to serve on Committee?

If they were complicit, they would hesitate to be called out to their faces by fellow Congressmen on the Committee. They have no rational defense.

People like Marjorie Taylor Greene would be destroyed if they brought their BS to the Committee.

[IcyPeas]

7. an opinion I heard on NPR was that it most likely wouldn't be Gaetz or Greene or Boebert because

McCarthy can't control them. Gym Jordan however will probably be on the committee.