Pelosi vs McCarthy Battle Escalates

A Pelosi vs McCarthy battle in the US House of Representatives has turned ugly and escalated to a point of no return.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are at odds over the investigation into the January 6th Donald Trump-led MAGA mob attack on Capitol Hill.  Democrats want a fair and bipartisan committee to conduct the investigation, while Republicans — who deeply fear the wrath of Donald Trump — want to pretend the attack never happened and hopes everyone will simply forget all about it.

As we discussed here last week, Republicans threatened not to participate in the investigation unless Pelosi accepted 2 Trump sycophants on the committee.  However, Pelosi called their bluff and announced that the investigation would proceed anyway and would do so without the 2 Trump flunkies — prompting McCarthy to throw a tantrum and announce that NO Republicans would join the investigative committee or cooperate with the inquiry.

Except, things didn’t quite go as McCarthy had planned.

Not only did Speaker Pelosi refuse to seat GOP Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio to the committee, but she announced that Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois (2 noted anti-Trump Republicans) have accepted her invitation to join the investigative committee.

McCarthy had intended for Banks and Jordan to gum up the investigation and report back to Donald Trump.  Instead, Banks and Jordan are out and Cheney and Kinzinger are in, which completely negates McCarthy’s threat that no Republicans would participate in the probe.

An angry McCarthy is now calling Cheney and Kinzinger “Pelosi Republicans.”  Additionally, several Trump loyalists in the House are demanding that McCarthy punish the 2 GOP representatives for daring to join a bipartisan committee to investigate the attack against all of Congress and, effectively, hand Nancy Pelosi a victory.

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“They have stupidly sided with Democrats in a way that begs the question of their desire to be a part of our conference.” – Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)

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Now, a Pelosi vs McCarthy war of words is on!

“What you’re doing is unprecedented,” an angry McCarthy told Pelosi over the weekend. He also threatened that her dirty tricks (which successfully undermined his own dirty tricks) would “come back to haunt” her.

“The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision,” a calm Pelosi told McCarthy.  She also added that the selections of GOP Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio would have undermined the integrity of the probe.
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“If they [Cheney and Kinzinger] are accepting appointments from Nancy Pelosi rather than the GOP, haven’t they already effectively left [the Republican Party]? Perhaps they should ask Speaker Pelosi for committee assignments?” – Republican House member

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Pelosi is now proceeding as planned with the inquiry into the deadly Capitol riot and the investigation will formally begin Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

As for McCarthy, he’s seething mad that he doesn’t have the power to prevent the House Speaker from going forward with a fair investigation and that he didn’t get his way.  He’ll now have to report back to ‘Dear Leader’ Donald Trump that his efforts to halt the inquiry have failed and that Trump, several GOP colleagues, and even McCarthy himself could face damaging consequences once the truth about January 6th comes out before the congressional committee.

In an 11th-hour fit of desperation on Monday, McCarthy filed a “motion to vacate the speaker’s chair” (an impossible legislative move to have Speaker Pelosi removed from power).  Needless to say, his stunt was a laughable and overly dramatic escalation of the Pelosi vs McCarthy feud.

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The Pelosi vs McCarthy feud escalates.