Kevin McCarthy's fight with Nancy Pelosi

Wednesday afternoon, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy took Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House, to the proverbial woodshed. During his impromptu news conference, McCarthy refered to Pelosi as the "lame duck speaker." Specifically, he said "This has not happened before. House Democrats must answer this question. Why are you allowing a lame duck speaker to destroy this institution? This is the peoples' House, not Pelosi's House."

This happened after Speaker Pelosi announced that she wasn't approving Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to be part of the select committee. Leader McCarthy said that "Speaker Pelosi has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party's picks for the select committee on Jan. 6. This represents something that has not happened in the House before for a select committee, by the historian."

Undoubtedly, Jordan and Banks were picked to cause heartburn for Pelosi's Democrats. It's also true, though, that Jordan is a fierce investigator/interrogator capable of being both a partisan irritant and the person who gets to the bottom of things. This wasn't meant to be a serious investigation. That was obvious since the moment Pelosi picked Liz Cheney to be part of the committee. If Pelosi wanted this to be a serious committee, she wouldn't have picked a Trump-hating GOP establishmentarian for the committee.

At this point, Cheney isn't a serious member of the GOP. If she's defeated in the Wyoming Primary, I suspect that most of the people in the House GOP Conference will quietly applaud. She hates the dominant wing of the GOP because she's a tried-and-true denizen of the Swamp. It's time to throw her into that Swamp and move onto someone with integrity.

The strongest part of McCarthy's speech came when he noted that Senate committees had finished 2 bipartisan reports. He also asked a question that the Pelosi-Schiff-Cheney committee won't answer. McCarthy asked "Why was the Capitol so ill-prepared for that day when they knew on Dec. 14 that they had a problem?"

This wasn't a serious attempt to investigate 1/6. The fact that the committee had Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney on it guaranteed that it was mostly a mostly partisan attempt.

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