Here's your select committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot: pic.twitter.com/3as5e2OlRC — Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 1, 2021 I asked Pelosi when the committee will get started and what they would do if McCarthy doesn’t appoint immediately. “Well, we have a quorum,” she said with a smile. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 1, 2021 Per …
Friday Morning Open Thread: The Jan. 6 Commission Sets UpPost + Comments (251)
JUST IN: Speaker Nancy Pelosi says GOP Rep. Liz Cheney "has patriotically agreed to serve" on the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 1, 2021
I'm honored to serve on the January 6th select committee. Our oath to the Constitution must be above partisan politics. pic.twitter.com/LpPoWhBHPx
— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) July 1, 2021
Thing that’s notable about Lynn Cheney to me isn’t fealty to the constitution or sense of patriotism (which her actions suggest are genuine). It’s that she appears to lack a fear that debilitates most politicians: she doesn’t appear afraid of losing & having to find a new job.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 1, 2021
If Liz Cheney shook my hand, I would count my fingers afterwards… but it’s certainly interesting that Darth Cheney’s favorite daughter has chosen to ally with the ‘enemies’ of the current Republican leadership. My assumption is that there’s lots of power & profit left in the shell of the Permanent GOP, even if the corporation has to be stripped for parts, and Liz Cheney intends to be at the head of the raiding party. After all, the contest to yelp loudest for the wayward affections of The Deplorables and their Leader-in-Exile is not only overcrowded — and unwinnable — it’s undignified.
Worse comes to worst for her, she’s ensured her respectable removal to the sane side of the aisle, or at least a position as a principled Independent (which, after all, has worked very nicely for a certain Senator Sanders from another quirky small-population state). A tiny cynical corner of my brain wonders how much of the material in Daddy Cheney’s infamous man-sized safe catalogs reasons against hanging out with certain members of the existing Republican leadership, but that’s up to the alphabet agencies to parse…
“Politicians demanding loyalty pledges from peers to not investigate the storming of their workplace by people intent to kill them” is about as sick as you can get for democracy. https://t.co/ixy2QQJ8un
— nick (@ntdPhD) July 1, 2021
Kevin McCarthy’s spokesman with another statement on behalf of McCarthy’s office https://t.co/dQ6ls0RCXr
— Lil Brood X ?? (@pleizar) July 1, 2021
i appreciate that kevin mccarthy has given liz cheney every possible reason to sit on the 1/6 committee and to put his own behavior leading up to and on 1/6 first and foremost on the top of her list to be curious about.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 1, 2021