The Select Selections

CBS News 6/29/21:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced legislation to establish a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Under the bill, she would appoint eight members of the committee and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would appoint five.
However, an aide to the House speaker said that she “is seriously considering including a Republican among her eight appointments.” If Pelosi were to appoint a Republican, the partisan division of the committee would instead be seven Democrats and six Republicans.

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29 thoughts on “The Select Selections”

  1. … the House speaker said that she “is seriously considering including a Republican among her eight appointments.”

    likely suspects: liz cheney, john katko and adam kinzinger. 

    my bet is she’ll select katko if his homeland security committee chairman chairs the select group. otherwise liz is the most likely. 

  3. House GOP bristles as a Jan. 6 investigation lands in its lap – POLITICO

    In the days after the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, tension among House Republicans was so high that one of them privately suggested some GOP colleagues be punished for their roles in encouraging the riot.
    This GOP lawmaker drafted a list of about half a dozen fellow Republicans who had cheered on the pro-Donald Trump rally that turned violent that day, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the maneuver. The sources said Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) were on the list but declined to identify its author — a sign that the scars from the insurrection remain deeply painful for members of both parties.
    […]
    Trump allies, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are already preparing for the Jan. 6 committee to turn into a partisan cage match. McCarthy has yet to indicate whether he plans to name Republicans to the panel, saying Monday night that he wants to hear more details before deciding.
    […]
    But House Republicans have their own scores to settle over the insurrection.
    Chief among them is the allegation by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) that some GOP members participated in reconnaissance of the Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 attack — a claim she has yet to substantiate. Sherrill, a former Navy pilot who also previously worked in the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey, said she has turned over information about what she saw on the eve of the riot to federal investigators, noting that any action on such material tends to take time.
    “We’re seeing information come out about the planning that went into that,” Sherrill said. “I don’t really want to comment on what I’ve seen. Some of it is still under investigation, so it hasn’t been publicly released right now.”
    Sherrill said she hopes the Jan. 6 select committee can help shed light on tours she claims she saw members of Congress conduct when such movement through the Capitol was restricted due to the pandemic.
    Her GOP colleagues are unmoved and in some cases infuriated by her charges.
    [continues]

  4. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html

    “…in terms of Delta spread, the US is about a month or two behind the UK — a country that has been dealing with high numbers of cases despite relatively high vaccination rates. “

    Well, eff. We’ve done this dance before.

    “….people who got both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine had little factories called germinal centers that make B-cells that should specifically recognize the coronavirus, meaning there’s a possibility for long-lasting protection…”

    Same for Moderna?

  5. Another year so different from the previous year.  No talk from a former guy about running U.S. Army (or Russian) tanks up and down Pennsylvania Avenue for a Fourth of July parade.  No separate fireworks from the national fireworks.  The whole of America is better, even though a small, but very vocal (includes media), cult keeps yelling obscenities.  Life is shifting away from what has been post WWII employment structures, but it is still too early to tell how things will be next year.

  7. Reading yesterday’s thread, specifically the part about Louisiana’s efforts brings to mind the Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke. I assume the LA SAFE program ultimately results in a combination of land use restrictions and coastal LA becoming a twin of the Netherlands – a land of dams holding the sea from swallowing up the land. 

  9. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/louisiana-sea-level-rise-coastal-communities/

    “It was the first time that someone in our community came to us and told us that it was not going to be OK,” says Jonathan Foret, a Terrebonne Parish resident and executive director of the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center. Rather than leaving him resigned, the process provided a measure of hope by showing folks they have options, especially if they work together. “You have the ability to control how your future looks,” he says. “If you don’t plan for it, Mother Nature will make those choices.”

    pogo – At least there has been a reckoning with what is happening. They’re also dealing with the mental health aspect of climate change.

    BB – Has the government planned for permanent displacement from huge weather events? What happens to climate refugees in the US, when we can’t even handle the stream of displaced humans trying to make it here from Central America?

    I hope Jamie is doing OK up in the PNW heatwave.

  10. craig, you’re welcome and glad you approve the thread topics.

    i figured you are still in flux dealing with grief and all that.  also all this resurfacing from pandemic has unexpectedly messed up a lot of routines for folk.  i’ll (and other mixers i hope) will keep pitching in until things get back to some sort of normal for you.

  11. Here, and on other sites of note, discussions about employment, lack of workers, change of employment and such have been on going for at least a year.  The issue is not just a U.S. thing, it is global.  My enjoyment of the pain, although not enjoyment for the workers, is not at the thigh slapper level – yet.  Countries, such as Singapore and the U.S., which rely on immigrant labor are hurting.  Both have closed borders which are slowly starting to open, but not enough to make a dent in the labor shortage.  And, I think opening the borders may not have the result some want, the people may not return to work in low pay hard labor jobs.  CNN has a good report on the global effect of the pandemic on workers and many of the reasons jobs are still open.  A big one is the Baby Boomers are retiring and the numbers will only climb for several years. 

  12. Patd has done a wonderful job with the posts.  I’m still on Kindle not computer.

    BiD – Strangely enough I’m cool in the basement apartment.  Heat rises so when son and  grandson turn on cooler, I have to snuggle under the quilts while the sun rages outdoors.  Many Washingtonians have crumbled too desert dust.

     

  13. BiD, it’s good that SoLA is doing planning – the godsend they have is that tides in the Gulf are not dramatic.  Right now they are running at about 2 feet on the coast (Grand Isle) and are less than 6″ by the time it gets to New Orleans.  Only short dykes needed.

  18. Any time I ever spent in any desert anywhere made me slap fool.  Useless.  Worthless.   “Hand me another beer, Hoss, whattaboutit, you ready for a Jelly Bean?”

  19. By the way, I consider the Florida Panhandle to be just as much desert as anywhere in New Mexico, Aridzona, Texas, or Old Mexico.

    Wow……I just got a cannot post error message reason being: “Cannot parse Response”
    Thessa nu wan, Don Juan.

  21. Sturg, FL panhandle & LA (lower Alabama) have the flat, hot and sandy parts of desert down pat, but with HUMIDITY‼️

    And I get those “parse” messages from WP from time to time.

  24. jamie, you hable kindle-ese very well!

    can’t call it pigeon (aka pidgin) english tho’ — maybe owl english with a nod to your avatar?

  27. I can’t imagine that Bill McMinn, my favorite prof, is still alive. And I am right,  he died in 2014.  Professor of Philosophy at UofA following a teaching stint in the Southern Baptist Seminary in NO.  Spent many nights drinking with him and his hangers on at the Chukker in Tuscaloosa listening to him hold court.  First Baptist I ever knew who mentioned the god  is just dog backward with no fear of going to hell.

  28. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/29/texas-jill-biden-doug-emhoff-vaccines/

    Dr. Jill was here today.

    “About 41% of Texans are fully vaccinated, while the number of hospitalizations and the weekly average of new cases are on the decline in the state. Health officials say 75% to 90% of Texans would need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. Nationwide, about 66% of adults have at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    “We all carry each other through the darkest times,” Biden said. . “That is what we do as Americans…So, God bless you, Dallas, and go get vaccinated.” Biden later traveled to Houston for Tuesday evening, where she was joined by Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff. “

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