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So did McCarthy's top pick, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) (link)


who signaled his intent to sabotage the proceedings.

From the link below:

Banks released this extraordinary statement:

"If Democrats were serious about investigating political violence, this committee would be studying not only the January 6 riot at the Capitol, but also the hundreds of violent political riots last summer when many more innocent Americans and law-enforcement officers were attacked."

Oozing with phony victimization, Banks added that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) created the committee “solely to malign conservatives.”

Banks’s declaration that the panel should look at leftist violence — which he casts as a more serious threat than what we saw on Jan. 6 — is just a continuation of the game Republicans have played for six months now.

The ugly GOP game

Republicans have insisted any accounting must be broadened this way to obscure public understanding of some large and lethal truths: Right-wing radicalization is far and away the primary threat to democratic stability in this country, and Republicans themselves have actively fed and exploited that radicalization, heavily implicating them in what happened.


(In response to this post by Maupin233)

Link: Opinion: Kevin McCarthy’s top pick for the Jan. 6 panel is already trying to s


Posted: 07/21/2021 at 3:37PM



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Current Thread:
  I wish she wouldn’t have done that -- wahoo138 07/21/2021 2:47PM
  Great. Let ‘em ** -- WaxHoo 07/21/2021 1:43PM
  ^^^ Afraid of the truth ** -- SixerHoo 07/21/2021 1:59PM
  We need an audit for two reasons. First... -- Los Angeles Hoo 07/21/2021 3:38PM
  No laws were broken. That's a lie. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/21/2021 5:34PM
  Bipartisan, my ass! ** -- MasterRusty 07/21/2021 1:21PM
  Hear hear! ** -- WaxHoo 07/21/2021 1:30PM
  Seems reasonable. ** -- Maupin233 07/21/2021 1:18PM
  Why have any Republicans on the committee? ** -- Lupos 07/21/2021 1:11PM
  They aren't republicans. They are something else. ** -- HoosWillWin 07/21/2021 1:28PM
  Need a nickname for Banks ** -- Tuckahokie 07/21/2021 1:01PM
  Why? Did he cover up diddling students too? ** -- Shenhoo 07/21/2021 1:07PM
  That’s a long nickname ** -- Tuckahokie 07/21/2021 1:10PM
  How about just Diddly Banks then? ** -- SixerHoo 07/21/2021 1:13PM
  That turned out to be bullshit ** -- HokieDan95 07/21/2021 1:10PM
  So he's diddling animals too:{) ** -- Hooooooooooooooo 07/21/2021 1:14PM
  Proving it’s not a serious committee -- TomKazanski 07/21/2021 12:50PM
  YASAFT! ** -- WaxHoo 07/21/2021 1:16PM
  Let’s bookmark this one ** -- DTsBicep 07/21/2021 1:19PM
  You’ve already decided -- DTsBicep 07/21/2021 5:20PM
  No. And no. ** -- WaxHoo 07/21/2021 1:16PM
  Sure. Why not jerk us off some more? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/21/2021 1:14PM
  Good. No need to reward Trumpsurrectionists. ** -- Shenhoo 07/21/2021 12:47PM

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