{"id":1742752,"date":"2022-11-17T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742752"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:47:34","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-should-follow-through-on-his-promise-to-kick-dems-off-congressional-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-should-follow-through-on-his-promise-to-kick-dems-off-congressional-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Should Follow Through On His Promise To Kick Dems Off Congressional Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-mccarthy-should-follow-through-on-his-promise-to-kick-dems-off-congressional-committees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was formed, Nancy Pelosi named eight members while giving Kevin McCarthy five. Then, for the first time in memory, the Speaker of the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/21\/1018924596\/nancy-pelosi-rejects-2-gop-picks-for-jan-6-inquiry-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vetoed<\/a> the opposition party\u2019s choices for committee seats, necessitating that Republicans pull all five. The patina of \u201cbipartisanship\u201d was provided by Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi cited the \u201cintegrity of the investigation\u201d and \u201cinsistence on the truth\u201d for rejecting Jim Banks and Jim Jordan, which is rich considering the members she did pick. One was Adam Schiff, who read the fabulist Steele dossier into the congressional record even after he knew it was a partisan oppo file.\u00a0It was Schiff who had not only repeatedly insisted that the central assertion of that document was true \u2013 that the U.S. presidential election had been hijacked by a foreign entity \u2013 but also that he was in personal possession of a \u201csmoking gun\u201d to prove it.\u00a0Schiff has never shared any corroboration for this allegation because none exists. Schiff should be under investigation by the House Intelligence Committee, not sitting on it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, other Democrats on the committee, to various degrees, also denied the legitimacy of the 2016 election. But Chairman Bennie Thompson had also joined 31 Democrats in 2005 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/what-bennie-thompson-did-on-jan-6-2005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">object<\/a> to Ohio\u2019s slate of electoral votes over conspiracy theories regarding voting machines and \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d This, we are told today, is the kind of unpatriotic election denialism that threatens our very democracy. Surely, there was a better person available?<\/p>\n<p>The bigger problem was that a committee with a single political agenda ends up dismissing inconvenient evidence and fails to call competing witnesses and fails to meet the rudimentary expectations of due process. Whether this was a real criminal investigation or not \u2014 it was real enough to put reluctant witnesses into handcuffs \u2014 if Pelosi cared about \u201cdemocracy\u201d she would not have broken decades of legislative norms to get her way.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, McCarthy has promised to return the favor. Pelosi, who stepped down from leadership today, escalated partisan warfare and Republicans have no reason to unilaterally disarm. Pick two House members and deny them a committee assignment, even if it\u2019s symbolic.<\/p>\n<p>A good place to start, as McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/mccarthy-in-the-middle-how-the-last-young-gun-sought-to-rebuild-conservative-trust-as-pelosi-went-scorched-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has already promised<\/a>, is denying the bigot Ilhan Omar, whose juvenile understanding of foreign policy (she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/ilhan-omar-defends-comments-comparing-israel-us-to-hamas-taliban-672427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">believes<\/a> the U.S. is a terror regime) makes her morally and philosophically unfit to serve on the Foreign Relations Committee. Eric Swalwell works, as well. Now, I\u2019m not saying anyone <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/24\/swalwell-committee-colleagues-ask-fbi-for-briefing-on-china-honey-pot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who falls<\/a> for a ChiCom honeypot is a pathetic mark unfit to serve in any office, I\u2019m just saying that the last place this pathetic mark should serve is the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>   David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the select committee investigating Jan. 6 was formed, Democrats denied Kevin McCarthy his choices. 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