Select THIS!

Fed up with efforts to get Republicans in Congress to authorize an independent commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going ahead and pushinga resolution creating a select committee to investigate it.  Though the committee will be bipartisan, it will not be free of partisan politics.  But it's the only way to get to the truth about what happened.

Speaker Pelosi said that the committee will be comprised of thirteen members. She will appoint eight of them, with the other five to be chosen  in consultation with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.  There's just one thing wrong with that - McCarthy opposes an investigation of any sort, and he could try some trick to sabotage the select committee.  Mainly because McCarthy himself would likely be subpoenaed to testify before the select committee.  McCarthy, who wants to be Speaker, had to deal with Donald Trump on the day of the insurrection and begged him to call it off.  If he testified before a committee, he might not get the Speaker's gavel - even if the Republicans retake the House her in 2022.

Speaker Pelosi has let it be known that she is seriously considering one or two Republicans among eight choices for the committee.  This would make the committee truly bipartisan and give any of its findings more credibility.  And it could help the Democrats in the 2022 midterms.  I don't think there's been anyone in Washington like Pelosi who has been able to pull off the impossible so magically since then-Secretary of State Martin Van Buren defused a sex scandal in President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet by resigning, allowing Jackson to ask the rest of the Cabinet for their resignation.  

Meanwhile, Trump himself could be indicted this week - not for the insurrection but for his company's shady business practices.  The select committee could end up being just another nail in an already-completed coffin.