How in the ever living F**** can the House GOP blame Speaker Pelosi for January 6th ??

[steve2470]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564988-house-gop-blames-pelosi-not-trump-for-jan-6

House GOP leaders teed off on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Tuesday morning, accusing her of neglecting her duty to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6 and demanding answers about her role in the violent attack that injured more than 140 police officers.

"On Jan. 6 these brave officers were put into a vulnerable and impossible position because the leadership at the top failed," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters just outside the Capitol.

The accusations served as a prebuttal to the House select committee's investigation into the attack, which was set to kick off shortly after the Republican press conference without any allies of former President Trump on the panel.

Yet in a sign of just how partisan the debate surrounding the insurrection has become, the Republicans offered no critique of the former president, who had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6 to block the certification of his election defeat — the spark that inspired the deadly riot.

This is laughable partisan BS at its very toxic worst. Classic victim blaming. Ignoring the facts. And the sad thing is... most Republicans will believe it.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. B/c she was there . . . .

[Celerity]

2. projection and deflection nt

[Baitball Blogger]

16. +1

[gab13by13]

3. It changes the narrative,

it even made it here on DU.

[steve2470]

4. they are trying very hard to change it, for sure

At least here we can expose it for the BS it is.

[MerryHolidays]

5. Because they have no other defense

Let's not treat this lightly. The RepubliQanons excel at one thing: destroying people.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. We need to PUSH Officer Dunn's view:

"When you hire a HIT MAN and the hit man does his job, not only is the hit man charged, the man doing the hiring is also charged."

TRUMP hired the 'HIT MAN' (the insurrectionists).

TRUMP MUST BE CHARGED!!!!!

[Whiskeytide]

7. Because they have an immense capacity for the retention and storage of fecal matter. n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Nicely stated.

😄

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Even when they are told they're eating shit, they just love its taste. CHOCOLATE!

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[Tadpole Raisin]

17. Always wondered why they looked so strained

Carrying their luggage, lol.

[JohnSJ]

8. When this happens, I hope the Democrats remind, and show footage if possible, the words of

McConnel, Graham, McCarthy, etc. where the day after January 6, they not only condemned the insurrection, but also condemned trump for inciting this insurrection

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

28. I'm sure...

there will be some pure dynamite campaign ads in the next two election cycles.

I'm still predicting a True Blue Tsumani in both '22 and '24. I'll stand by that. I believe all of their attempted meddling with the rules will fall far short.


GOTV!

[JohnSJ]

29. I hope so +++

[bluedevil4]

9. Oh oh I know I know pick me!

are you ready?! because she is responsible for securing the capital!
Didn’t you know she planned the whole insurrection!

I asked that same question awhile ago and some poor excuse of a person said that to me .

[Omnipresent]

10. Pelosi's job is to lead the house and pass legislation...

If there were any concerns about the possibility of riots to happen, law enforcement would have not only passed that information on to her, but also to Minority leader McCarthy.

What I want to know is: Before it happened, why didn’t law enforcement notice anyone wearing tactical gear/body armor?

[mucifer]

12. cult members would blame themselves if they were told to by their god. they believe

anything fed to them by trump and right wing media.

[JHB]

13. Reflex, and the audience they're playing to does not care about facts...

...nor has any shame.

[Deminpenn]

15. Michael Steele, the ex-RNC head,

made a very telling comment a few weeks ago on MSNBC. IIRC, he was on Deadline:WH and asked about the Dem centrists or holdouts. His reply was along the lines of Biden, Schumer, Dem leadership should just order them to "get (or fall) in line".

Steele never even gave it a second thought that Dems won't automatically walk in lockstep like Rs will when told to do it.

[superpatriotman]

18. She wanted her office re decorated of course

Right this second there’s a corn pone Florida rep on C-Span spinning the talking point across live television with zero push back from the host and only marginal from the callers.

[Snackshack]

19. That the MSM

Actually aired this blatant lie is unforgivable. The FCC really needs to start engaging in holding media companies accountable when they propagate the false narratives the GOP repeatedly does. Just because it was the “minority leader” does not make this any less a demonstrable lie.

[ananda]

20. Htf can they say just about anything they say?

They are off the wall crazy, but the rightwing media lets
them get away with it.

Now if this were Dems, it would be a different story.

[superpatriotman]

21. Cammack was just on C-Span!

Hardly a right wing.

[SKKY]

22. Because they know their base won't dig deep enough to learn that Pelosi...

...is not in charge of the Capitol Police as they seem to assert. It's really just a free shot for them because they know their base already hates Pelosi and is just looking for more reasons to flame that particular fire. Low information voters.

[bottomofthehill]

27. They won't look but it's not hard to understand

The Speaker is no more at fault than Mitch McTurtle and the former guy, As a matter of fact, possible less

The Capitol Police Board is made up of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol.

The House SAA is selected by the Speaker and then Elected by the House

The Senate Sergeant at Arms is selected by McConnell and voted on in the Senate

The Architect is appointed by the President (Trump) to a 10 year term that is confirmed by the Senate, so it looks like 2/3 of the Police Board was approved by Republicans.

Additionally, Paul Irving was first appointed by Speaker John Boehner and was held over by Speaker Pelosi.

The Speaker is not in charge of the life safety and security of the Capitol, the Police Board is.

[SKKY]

31. It's also not too hard to understand that the earth is round...

...yet, tons of folks still believe it is flat.

[bottomofthehill]

32. So true.

Sad that facts no longer matter to the Flat Earth Society.

[Bettie]

23. She exists

that's enough for them.

They are detached from, well, reality, decency, humanity...they are a bunch of ugly clowns living in a sewer of their own making.

[Champp]

24. Lying comes naturally to Republicans

they have degenerated that far.

[Ilsa]

25. Because they know their cult will believe them. nt

[CentralMass]

26. Because all the GOP does is lie and spin. I can only speculate

what pack of wealthy assholes are calling the shots behind the scenes and what power they have to turn nearly the entire republican congressional party into a pack of scumbags.

[spanone]

30. well, these are the same people who said it was just like a typical tourist day at the capitol

and their 'president' said it was a love fest

they are not living in the real world

they are liars.

this bullshit was debunked weeks ago

[XanaDUer2]

33. Because they're scared

and know this is not going to end well for them.

The cops testifying are laying the blame right at Trump's feet, and subpoenas are going to uncover a lot more

[gratuitous]

34. What do you expect them to do? Admit their complicity?

Sure, there's all the video footage from that day, and the testimony of people who were there, and the utterly damning pep rally hosted by the soon to be former guy, and the e-mails and phone calls in the days leading up to it, and the soon to be former guy's tweets to his violent and volatile fanboiz, and all the rest of it. But is that really conclusive? Or even indicative? No! So it's obviously the Speaker's fault. Who are you going to believe, anyway? A mountain of evidence or the House GOP's craven and disingenuous excuse making?

[lpbk2713]

35. They use Faux Snooze as a medium to spread their lies and propaganda.

And the simple minded mouth breathers are convinced if they heard it on Faux it must be gospel.