July 24th, 2021
Republicans seem to have an obsession with trying to denigrate and demean Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. They have tried it over and over and time after time Nancy Pelosi comes out on top and remains one of the most effective House Speakers and indeed Politicians we have ever had. Yet in this increasingly Male Dominated Political realm the Republicans don't seem to learn their lesson that Nancy Pelosi is no shrinking violet that anybody in Congress can kick around. She is widely respected and admired by Democrats in this Congress and she will continue to be the Strong Leader of Democrats that she has always been regardless of Republican efforts to sabotage her.
Nancy has always been Ballsy and Fearless even in the Ugly face of Republican Scorn and Truly UnAmerican Activities on January Sixth when MAGA Monsters invaded the Halls of Congress in search of Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, as well as other Democrat Legislators to hang on a scaffold they had built outside the Capitol Building. It was not the first time Shameless Individuals like this had wanted to hang people in the United States. There had actually been a long and shameful history of mobs hanging people in the United States of America in decades long gone.
Clearly on the day of the Capitol Insurrection, urged on by Donald Trump's "Big Lie" and his Minions, the death, destruction and damage at the Capitol could have been even worse than it turned out to be, although what happened was certainly bad enough. On that dark day in January people died. Looking back on it and watching the continuing frightening footage that keeps appearing on television it strikes me that it is a total wonder that it did not become the bloodbath it would have been if Black Lives Matter Protesters were the ones storming the Capitol.
But then it wasn't Black Lives Matter Protestors who invaded the Capitol. It was those Whack Lives Matter Trump Supporters who stormed the United States Capitol.
It wasn't Antifa who stormed the Capitol.
It wasn't Democrats pretending to be MAGA Supporters with their Red hats and Trump Flags and American Flags.
It was the MAGA supporters themselves carrying their Trump and American flags on the flagpoles that they beat she shit out of the Capitol Police with.
On January Sixth both Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell seemed to know who to be angry with about the Invasion of the Capitol. They both condemned Donald Trump for organizing a "Stop The Steal" rally in Washington on the same day that Joe Biden would be officially certified by Congress as having been elected President of the United States. At that Rally Trump continued to spread the Bullshit Lie that the election had been stolen from him.
McCarthy and McConnell both condemned Trump's Senseless and Selfish Actions on that day and shortly afterward. Yet following that horrible day Mc and Mc seemed to to develop a form of Political Amnesia regarding the actions of Donald Trump on January Sixth.
Democratic Congressional Leaders including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, however, have had no trace of that Political Amnesia and have been pushing since January Sixth to have a fair, reasonable and bipartisan investigation conducted regarding What happened on that day, Why it happened and What to do to prevent it from happening in the future.
My wife and I were watching the Election Certification Activities on Television on the afternoon of January Sixth. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley in the Senate and several Republican members of the House, although the election results were clear that Biden won, were wiling to Obstuct the Certification proceedings in order to kiss up to Donald Trump.
Plain and simply Donald Trump knew what he was doing on January Sixth. He knew that his mob would follow his lead and he told them that he was going to go with them to the Capitol. He did not do that, however. He slunk back into the White House and according to White House Staffers he really enjoyed the Capitol TV Show and could not understand why others in the White House were not as excited and pleased by the proceedings as he was.
Clearly the Democrats have tried to do the right thing when it comes to investigating the Capitol Insurrection. They tried to appeal to Republicans in the House and Senate to set up a Bipartisan Investigation of the Capitol Riot. Republican Leaders and many Republican Legislators rejected that effort.
So when that bipartisan effort failed Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House decided to set up a Select Committee through the House of Representatives including Democrats and Republicans.
Republican House Leader, Kevin McCarthy was allowed to make Five Choices for appointment to the Committee. Two of his choices, One of whom was Jim Jordan, who was well know to be a Trump Ass Kissing Disrupter in previous Impeachment Investigations of Trump, were rejected by Nancy Pelosi. Good for her in preventing the January Sixth Investigation from turning into a Clown Show.
Although McCarthy is presenting Nancy's blocking of two disgustingly partisan Trump allies from being appointed to the Investigation Committee as Abuse of Power, it seems to me that the shoe is on the other foot and it is McCarthy who has mistakenly knowingly made bad choices for the Committee. Like the fool that he is, McCarthy took his appointees and went home refusing to seat any of the Republicans he had chosen to be on the Committee.
Now he is in the unenviable position of watching Nancy Pelosi outwit him again.
Nancy had already appointed Conservative Republican, Liz Cheney to the Committee and word is that Republican House Member, Adam Kinzinger is also probably going to be appointed to the January Sixth Investigation Committee. So in the end Kevin McCarthy will not have any of his chosen members on the January Sixth Investigation Committee.
Way to go, Kevin. Nancy Pelosi has outsmarted you again.
Now ain't that a Slap in the Face.
You should be getting used to it by now.
So as it stands now only the two Republican House Members who have refused to believe in Trump's "Big Lie" will be sitting among the Democrats appointed to the January Sixth Committee when it meets this coming Tuesday to begin its Investigation of the January Sixth Invasion of the Capitol. They will begin these public hearings by listening to the Police Officers who put their lives on the line on January Sixth to protect members of Congress.
It should be interesting but also disturbing testimony as the officers reveal the details of the January Sixth Invasion of the Capitol from their perspective.
Even though most Republicans will not be part of the Investigation I hope they do pay attention to the Officer's testimony and will in the end help to insure that what happened on January Sixth will never happen again.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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