Should Nancy ask for a couple of more Republican volunteers to join Cheney and Kinzinger?

[kentuck]

On the Select Committee?

Are there still a couple of Republicans that are independent from the conspiracy adopted by most of their Party?

What harm could it do?

I think it could only help the credibility of the Committee.

[PJMcK]

1. Got any suggestions?

I'm not sure there are one or two other Republicans who would buck their party to join that committee.

[kentuck]

4. I'm not sure either.

But I think it would be a savvy political move to find out.

[obamanut2012]

2. No

[bluedevil4]

18. Lol nice and to the point nt

[Meadowoak]

3. Nope

[Beastly Boy]

5. Nancy asked for five Republicans to join the Committee. She got none.

You can only lead a horse to the water, you can't make it drink.

Nancy went out of her way to appoint two Republicans, and thanks to her, the GOP is represented on that Committee, which they otherwise wouldn't. Her decision was generous enough, and appointing two more, while likely harmless, would be four too many and wouldn't change the dynamics in conducting the Committee's business one bit.

[kentuck]

8. When did she ask for five Repubs to join the Committee?

I thought she had only asked Cheney and Kinzinger to join? She gave McCarthy the opportunity to choose five but he chose to withdraw all of his picks.

[Hekate]

10. At the very outset of the formation of the committee. Kevin McCarthy jerked her around...

… and presented her with 5 of his worst, including 3 who voted against impeaching Trump after the insurrection and I can't remember what-all else. Jim Jordan was on the list, and publicly made it plain he would use the committee as a platform for his clown-show.

As a result, she outright refused 2 of them, at which point McCarthy took all 5 away and was nasty about it.

But it is a fact that Pelosi reserved 5 spaces for Republicans from the very beginning, and she didn’t have to. I don't think she intends to make any more offers to them at this point — and I don’t think she should. They hold the process in contempt,

[kentuck]

11. So we should assume every Republican, other than Cheney and Kinzinger, are complicit?

in the conspiracy to cover-up the crimes of January 6th?

[Ocelot II]

13. Yes, even if just by refusing to renounce it.

[Hekate]

15. They are all free to speak their minds, aren't they? Free to not be in lockstep w McCarthy?

Free to break with the pack?

And yet they will not. Only 2 have shown the guts to step up: Cheney and Kinsinger.

[kentuck]

16. That is true.

I have seen no physical restraints on any of them.

[agingdem]

6. are you serious??..the answer is NO!!!

the select committee is above reproach and bipartisan...Nancy is not in the business of appeasing Trump acolytes and sycophants...

[gab13by13]

7. Nyet, non.

[OnDoutside]

9. No.

[Ocelot II]

12. Any volunteers would find themselves on McCarthy's (and TFG's) shit list.

It's pretty obvious that only Cheney and Kinzinger have enough guts to stand up to the GOP's blackballing of anyone who would defy the wishes of Agent Orange.

[kentuck]

14. I suppose if there were any other Republicans willing to stand up for our country and Constitution..

..they could very easily contact the Speaker and she could decide if they were sincere and honest in their desire to defend their country and Constitution?

No one should have to ask them. They should volunteer if they wish to help save our democracy?

[ecstatic]

17. I wouldn't trust that.

It would be too suspicious.

[TxGuitar]

19. Of course not they had their chance

This is like all that handwringing during presidential elections that the Dem should pick an R veep. Crazy talk, and not helpful.

[spanone]

20. No, she alone made the commission bipartisan.

McCarthy wanted no republicans on the committee.
That way he and tfg could call it a partisan witch hunt.

[Ohio Joe]

21. She did approve three others...

They declined when she would not let batshit crazy people on.

[kentuck]

22. Then, let the work begin.

The Committee is all that the people have left between justice and corruption, between the truth and the lies. Without the Committee, there will be a massive cover-up by the complicit Republicans that do not want the people to know the truth.

[greenjar_01]

23. "Nancy" "Cheney" "Kinzinger"

[Hotler]

24. They had their chance. Nancy, don't play nice . nt

[lagomorph777]

25. No, she has recreuited every non-Nazi in the Reptilian Party.

Both of them.

[Talitha]

26. No.

[Poiuyt]

27. Yes - it would be better from an optics point of view

There are several who would be objective: Anthony Gonzalez, Fred Upton, Peter Meijer, John Katko, etc. I don't know if they've been asked or if they'd be willing to serve. But it would look better in the long run to have more Republicans on the committee. It would look less like a partisan witch hunt (note: I don't think it is, I just want the average American to know that a bi-partisan committee found that Trump was guilty and should serve the rest of his life in Leavenworth).

[left-of-center2012]

28. Pelosi has been more than fair

At some point we need to stop trying to meet the Republicans halfway,
Because they don't only want half.

They want it all

[left-of-center2012]

29. It's not Pelosi's fault that the Republicans don't want to play fair

How far backwards does she have to bend?