McCarthy Dismisses GOPers Who Don’t Buy The Big Lie As ‘Pelosi Republicans’

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters before a ceremony to mark the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the Rose Garden of the White Ho... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters before a ceremony to mark the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. This week the House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection is to hold their first hearing. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday took aim at Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) offer to join the select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.

During a visit to the White House, McCarthy was asked about demands from House Republicans to punish Cheney and Kinzinger following their appointments to the committee.

McCarthy replied “we’ll see” before going on to say he is unsure about the last time he spoke to both of them, according to Forbes.

McCarthy then accused Cheney and Kinzinger of being “Pelosi Republicans” for joining the committee, and told reporters that Pelosi’s decision to reject two of his picks for the panel “just makes the whole committee a sham.”

Shortly after McCarthy’s digs at the two Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” Cheney told reporters that the House minority leader’s remarks are “pretty childish” and the committee is “serious business.”

Kinzinger also weighed in, according to CNN.

Although McCarthy floated the possibility of stripping Cheney and Kinzinger of their committee assignments, Pelosi can ultimately reappoint the Republican lawmakers she tapped for the panel to their assigned committees.

McCarthy’s swipes at Cheney and Kinzinger come a week after Pelosi vetoed two of McCarthy’s picks to serve on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks — Trump loyalists Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), both of whom voted to overturn the election results.

After Pelosi yanked two of his picks, McCarthy withdrew all five of his appointees and painted the move as a partisan effort that hurts the former president and the GOP ahead of next year’s midterms.

Last May, Senate Republicans deployed the filibuster to kill the measure that would have established a bipartisan and independent commission that would investigate the events of Jan. 6.

On Sunday, Pelosi announced her appointment of Kinzinger to the committee, making the Illinois Republican the second Republican to join the panel after Cheney.

Watch McCarthy’s remarks below:

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  1. So I guess that makes Manchin and Sinema McConnell Democrats?

  2. I’m REALLY looking forward to McCarthy being questioned by Cheney and Kinzinger when he’s called to testify…

  3. This is what he brings? School yard taunts?

    Kinzinger and Cheney already know their future. They accepted their position and status.

    I don’t get it. McCarthy thinks he is going to call names and they will roll over or run home crying. He is so far out of his league he needs to be held back a grade and take remedial adulting.

  4. Avatar for mrf mrf says:

    Pelosi Republicans are the folks who helped to put Biden Harris over the top in a number of states. Keep talking Quevin.

  5. I just hope his subpoena is addressed to “Qevin McQarthy”.

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