{"id":48657,"date":"2021-07-21T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48657"},"modified":"2021-07-21T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:28:12","slug":"the-chasm-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48657","title":{"rendered":"The chasm widens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The House speaker acted within her authority established under House rules. We clear so far?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I get a bit suspicious of it all.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Why are they acting so outraged? Congressional Republicans are reaping what they have sown.<\/p>\n\n

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