Thread by @dcpetterson

Let's review.

Armed militias, under orders from then-president Trump, aided by Trump allies in and out of government, attacked the US Capitol on 1/6/21, with the intent of assassinating members of Congress and the VP, to install Trump as dictator.

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Trump was impeached for leading this violent assault on America. Republicans blocked the guilty verdict in the Senate.

A nonpartisan commission was proposed to investigate the insurrection, conforming to all of Republican demands--

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--equal representation, the ability to subpoena witnesses, etc.--and Republicans blocked it in the Senate.

Speaker Pelosi said there =would be= a Special Select Committee in the House to do the investigation. She set up rules that Minority Leader McCarthy agreed to.

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The Committee would have 8 chosen by the Speaker and 5 chosen by McCarthy. The Speaker would be able to veto the Republicans chosen, since some of them participated in the insurrection. McCarthy agreed to it.

The Speaker chose 7 Democrats and 1 Republican for her 8 picks.

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McCarthy chose his 5 picks, two of whom had spoken out loudly against the whole idea of investigating the insurrection, and one of them has proven immensely disruptive in virtually committees he's been a part of.

The Speaker exercised her right to reject them.

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McCarthy then pulled all five of his picks, and declared the Committee to be a partisan exercise--and to prove it, he said Republicans would commit their own partisan "investigation" (which has no legal authority or legitimate meaning and can't subpoena anyone).

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Speaker Pelosi has since named a second Republican to the Special Select Committee, and hinted she may name three or four more, to make the full 13: 7 Dems and as many as 6 Reps. That's as bipartisan as you can get, since she has no obligation to name =any= Republicans.

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The Special Select Committee has its first hearings next week.

McCarthy thought he could name bombthrowers to the Committee who would disrupt the proceedings and turn them into a circus. He was convinced the Speaker would wimp out and let that happen. He was wrong.

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After pulling all his picks, McCarthy was convinced he could blackmail Speaker Pelosi into reinstating his bombthrowers. He was wrong about that, too.

He was convinced Pelosi would move forward with only 7 Dems and the one Republican she'd picked originally. Wrong again.

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It's on. We're going to have a real committee, with a real investigation, and real results, real conclusions, and real findings. We will know exactly who did what, when, with whom, why, where, and with what money.

Oh, it's on.

Don't try to out-maneuver Madam Speaker.

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