By John Kanelis / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
Nancy Pelosi has nixed the appointment of two Republican House members to a select committee she formed to examine the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill.
The House speaker acted within her authority established under House rules. We clear so far?
OK, then House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy yanked all the rest of the Republicans he had chosen for the committee. He called Pelosi, a fellow Californian, a dictator who doesn’t give a damn about due process.
Here’s where I get a bit suspicious of it all.
Congressional Republicans had the chance to form an independent, bipartisan commission to conduct this examination. They chose to scuttle that idea. They knew what the result would be: that Speaker Pelosi would choose a select committee and would retain veto power over any GOP members selected to serve on the panel.
Why are they acting so outraged? Congressional Republicans are reaping what they have sown.
Each party should have say of who’s on committees. Any other way and you don’t have bipartisan.
The GOP was given a chance to have a huge say in who serves on an independent 1/6 commission; they turned it down.
People would belly-ache, if they were “hung with a new rope