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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your pilot. Please fasten your seatbelts as we are now entering the Realm Of The Entirely Predictable.https://t.co/uTZx1fVBZx

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 21, 2021

FFS, at a certain point, people have an obligation to *read* what Republicans are saying and *make judgments* on whether it merits uncritical reproduction. Everything Republicans are saying about the 1/6 committee is nonsense. You have a responsibility to tell your readers this.

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 21, 2021

Don't tell Chris Cilizza that; it would just upset him more.

While Pelosi referred only to "concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members," it seems likely that the reason she rejected their appointments to the select committee was because both men voted to object to the Electoral College votes in Pennsylvania and Arizona. (A third appointee, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, also voted to object but Pelosi said she would be fine with him on the committee -- perhaps because of Nehls background as a sheriff prior to coming to Congress.) 

No matter Pelosi's reasoning, her decision to reject Jordan and Banks, the two most high-profile Republicans put forward by McCarthy, dooms even the possibility of the committee being perceived as bipartisan or its eventual findings being seen as independent.

Jordan and Banks were already bombs waiting to go off, and everybody knows it.  Reality is a bit more like this: 

Remember when O.J. Simpson promised he'd go looking for the "real killer"? https://t.co/m9bLUe3qvw

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) July 21, 2021

Does anyone know what the hell Kevin McCarthy is talking about? *He* was the one who said no to an independent commission. *He* was the one who sabotaged a bipartisan deal because the disgraced & fallen ex-president lives in an alternate dimension & can’t accept that he lost. https://t.co/J2XNc0juQu

— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) July 21, 2021

Does anyone know what Chris Cilizza is talking about? Is he a goose who wakes up in a new world everyday?

Every news account on the current battle over the 1/6 committee should state clearly and unequivocally that Kevin McCarthy's original choice of Jim Banks and Jim Jordan itself constituted deliberate sabotage of a full accounting, as *their own* public statements make inescapable.

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 21, 2021

But...but...but...bipartisanship! Dems in disarray! SWAMP CREATURES!

This, by the way, is gonna give Cilizza a fit of the vapors!

NEW: Cheney says McCarthy should NOT be speaker.

“Any person who would be 3rd in line to the presidency must demonstrate a commitment to the Constitution and a commitment to the rule of law, and Minority Leader McCarthy has not done that.” pic.twitter.com/fpQEd1kCab

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 21, 2021

How does Cilizza find the corner in the round room Cheney just threw him into?