Please listen to me for just a minute or two.....your moniker is "independent thinker", try to live up to it, again....please.
Yes, you are right that this House select committee should have more republicans participating than just Liz and Adam.... January 6th, was a very serious event and the American people rightfully want to know everything about it, from why it occurred, to how it occurred, from security failures at all levels, to who incited it, to what was the purpose? etc....it was a once in a lifetime event! It's history, the History written in History books, that our children and grand children and great grand children will be taught about, in their History books.
What I am trying to say is that it would have been a form of dereliction of duty, for Congress not to investigate, and gather as many facts and evidence and testimony of people present as they can, close to this Historical event, as well....not just the purpose of The American people need to know!
Now let's get down to what really happened with this committee being lopsided.
THIS WAS MCCARTHY'S doings, Dirty, scummy, political play at the hands of McCarthy and not Pelosi.
McCarthy initially wanted and agreed to under all of his terms being met by Pelosi, a bi- partisan commission, that had players outside of congress to investigate the who, what, where, when, and how.
McCarthy insisted on equal number of republican picks as the democrats....Pelosi agreed, he demanded that the republicans on the committee also had subpoena power, Pelosi gave that to him too....etc.....he got everything he wanted for this 9/11 type investigative commission....
Then, then McCarthy made a trip to visit the Emperor with no clothes in Mara Lago to kiss the ring....
When he got back, McCarthy FLIP FLOPPED, and decided he was against the commission investigation, but his party members who worked hard for McCarthy with Pelosi to get every single thing they demanded, refused to go along with McCarthy's flip flop, and voted for the commission investigation and it passed the house with tons of republican support.... Now on to the Senate.
McCarthy then went on to lobby every Republican Senator that he could, TO VOTE AGAINST this Commission investigation!!!
And McCarthy's lobbying of Senators worked and it did NOT pass in the Senate...the investigation in to 1/6 died.
Since this event HAS TO BE INVESTIGATED, for the record, in the very least....after Nancy recovered from the in the back blow she got from McCarthy, chose a House Select Committee to investigate 1/6.
McCarthy still is against an investigation, again....only after his trip to meet up with Trump and the deal they made with each other.....he wouldn't let republicans investigate, and Trump would support him in his reelection bid and not go after him. A deal of two Devils.
The select committee was suppose to have 7 picks for democrats in the majority and 5 picks for republicans in the minority.
McCarthy made a deal with T for no investigation involving Republicans.....this was THE PLAN from the get go! Why, you ask?
So that they could CLAIM, just as you are doing now, that the investigation was a WITCH HUNT, a hoax, unfair, a persecution, one sided, blah blah blah blah!
So McCarthy intentionally picked the 5 guys to be on the committee that HE KNEW were disruptioners, and of all people he picked Jordan, who was involved in the 1/6 insurrection and a material witness that would likely be called to testify by investigators.....you can't be an investigator and be a part of what was being investigated.
McCarthy KNEW THIS and that's why he picked both Jordan and Banks and the other three.
McCarthy knew Pelosi would have no choice but to reject, at least Jordan and Banks, and accept the other three McCarthy picks, and gave McCarthy the chance to replace the two rejected for conflicts of interest.
MCCARTHY CHOSE, AS PLANNED ALL ALONG, TO PULL ALL REPUBLICANS OFF OF THE COMMITTEE! WA LA!
Now, you can scream witch hunt!!!!!!! As trump planned all along! He knew you would be good little minions! Yes, you are being played!
Pelosi punted, picked republican Cheney and Adam K, in the place of two democrats....if McCarthy had at least kept the three that were accepted, it would have been 5 democrats, and 5 republicans....
Pelosi didn't stop that....mccarthy/Trump did.
And another thing, if investigations could not happen or did not happen or are not legitimate, all because a Minority Leader chooses not to participate like McCarthy did, then we would never have an investigation of anything or any wrong doing, that's legitimate..... And that's just bull crap partisan games that none of us should accept from our representatives.