Opinion | ZeeshanAleem: Rep. McCarthy’s actions were the culmination of what was always a bad faith attempt to participate in the committee. - MSNBCDaily
that any rehashing of the past would undermine Republicans’ fortunes in the 2022 midterm elections. At that point, he demonstrated very clearly that he — and many of his peers — valued partisan electoral gains more than protecting the legitimacy of the electoral process.
Now McCarthy is showing a similar disdain for the idea of seriously investigating Jan. 6 in his handling of the select committee in the House. As, his picks revealed more of an intention to subvert the committee than to participate in it: All five nominees had voted against creating the very committee they had been nominated for; three had voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election after the storming of the Capitol; and out of those three, two of them — Reps.
Now McCarthy is showing a similar disdain for the idea of seriously investigating Jan. 6 in his handling of the select committee in the House. Those last two, Banks and Jordan, are the nominees Pelosi vetoed, in a break from tradition, in committee appointments. “In light of statements and actions taken by them, I could not appoint them,” she said at a news conference Thursday. “I said that while this may be unprecedented, so was an attack on the Capitol.”
McCarthy tried to seize upon Pelosi’s actions as proof that the committee was not a truly bipartisan effort and that she was trying to rig its findings. But his framing was an inversion of the truth: She had barred Banks and Jordan precisely because they had openly announced that they had ambitions of undermining the committee.Banks and Jordan weren’t just predisposed to be hostile to the entire purpose of the committee — they signaled they would try to sabotage it.
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