Opinion: Kevin McCarthy's struggles over the Jan. 6 committee reveal a dark GOP truth

[riversedge]

The Repugs are -and should be afraid of what they will learn--or admit-- about Jan 6!!


Opinion: Kevin McCarthy’s struggles over the Jan. 6 committee reveal a dark GOP truth


Greg Sargent

July 7, 2021|Updated yesterday at 10:56 a.m. EDT

......................................

Why aren’t legions of more serious House Republicans clamoring to join this committee? After all, it’s a chance to demonstrate that the party has fully renounced any sympathies with the violent insurrectionist tendencies unleashed by Donald Trump. Why aren’t they leaping at this opportunity?

This question arises from a new Politico report on the private deliberations of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over which Republicans to appoint to the committee. The key revelation: The Republicans who most want to serve are “the party’s firebrands, more practiced at crafting viral clips of verbal attacks than they are at making a sustained, credible case.”

And so, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have been among the leading lawmakers expressing private or public interest in joining the committee. Trump will want such appointments, and he’ll be watching carefully.

Meanwhile, more serious House Republicans are not particularly interested. As Politico puts it, “many are reluctant to take on a time-consuming probe they fear will cut into their time to shape legislation.” And there’s this:

.............................

.....................

..........................

But here’s the bottom line: Being on this committee is a terrible position for more serious Republicans to take on. That’s because they’ll be on the wrong side of an argument that’s fundamentally unwinnable.

Indeed, what we’re likely to learn is how much worse the insurrection was — and how much more implicated the Republican Party was in it — than we originally thought.............................





@ThePlumLineGS 17h
Trump and his movement are rewriting the history of the insurrection as a kind of outpouring of righteous fervor over a monstrous injustice done to Trump and his supporters. So there's no clear way for "serious" Republicans to serve on the 1/6 committee.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[uponit7771]

1. 60% of GOP is against democracy but we run away from slogans of the oppressed ?! Come on dems we

... can do better

[Baked Potato]

2. They probably pray many times daily

for some calamity to whisk them off to the safety of obscurity.

[Leith]

3. We know all about their deep dark truth

The don't give a shit about the country. They are in their little exclusive club with lucrative benefits and they don't want to jeopardize that.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

4. Pelosi should tell McCarthy in advance ...

to not waste his time trying to nominate any traitors because she won't allow it. She should also say this publicly.

[Submariner]

5. These 4 - absolutely NOT

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

Jordan would turn it into a zoo making the commission a joke.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. I wonder what they were like in school.

It's easy to imagine Gaetz as the boy who got beaten up every day -- by the girls. Boebert was so mean even the mean girls stayed away from her, and Greene's teachers applied for combat pay when she turned up in one of their classes. And Jim Jordan? He started arguing with his teachers in first grade and hasn't quit yet.