Heh...I just remembered that circus clown Jim Jordan (who asked for a presidential pardon, and recently refused to testify before the Jan6th Committee), was nominated by McCarthy to be a member of the committee last year.
Can you imagine the resulting shitshow had Pelosi not rejected him?
This is the great thing about Trump; damned if you do, damned if you don't. When will these suckers realize kissing Trump's ass is only degrading yourself on the way to a bad ending? May as well call him out now and deal with the backlash, because I'd rather have a mean tweet directed at me than the full arm of the justice department.
McCarthy was given five choices for the panel. Ttwo of them - Banks and Jordan - are implicated, so Pelosi rejected JUST those two. So McCarthy didn't replace them, he pulled all of them off. Now Trump is whining he has no representation on the panel, and while not blaming McCarthy directly (yet), he did say it was a bad decision.
But if McCarthy had placed republicans on the panel, Trump would have whined back then. What we're witnessing is a party that has no backbone, none of the members (beyond Kinzinger and Cheney, and a couple senators like Romney and Murkowski) have any independence. They constantly do whatever is the most politically expedient in the moment, which usually involves doing whatever it is they think Trump and his cult thinks is best.
They got Trump elected, have enough votes in congress to stonewall the current admin and will probably pick up more, and have overturned Roe v. Wade. But in the longrun, this party is hurting. I'm seeing it in Illinois, where far-right loon Darren Bailey went from being a backbench nutjob to the probable GOP nominee for governor and default state party leader. Unlike smaller congressional districts and such where sometimes crazy can eek out a win, Bailey has no shot in a statewide general. Ever since Obama, republicans have had to run far to the right to win the nomination - which means they're either legitimately nuts, or pretending to be for the vote (see JD Vance). Either way, its not good for the party and is not sustainable.
The solution is very simple - congressional republicans and other conservatives of high name recognition need to join forces, throw all these criminal traitors under the bus, and move on. There are many conservative fiscal policies I agree with. I would have gladly given Mitt Romney a chance in 2012 - had he not alienated a good chunk of democrats during the primaries. That's the issue - there is no room for moderate voices in the current GOP. You're either a nut or a RINO - and that's their standard, not the dems. It's a self-imposed litmus test that is an automatic turnoff to most democrats and a good chunk of independents.
