Observations about Cheney accepting a Democratic appointment and the political implications of Pelosi NOT picking Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
WASHINGTON — I’m outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite in the Capitol on Thursday and there was Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, standing with a group of Democrats. What a picture. They are talking to the press about just being appointed to the new select committee to investigate the Jan.6 Capitol attack by a mob of Trump supporters intent on stopping the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election. The scene Thursday was remarkable because of how Cheney got there — she was Pelosi’s pick to be on the panel. Pelosi and Cheney, I’m told, spoke Thursday before the group had its first organizing meeting with Pelosi in her office. Cheney stood proudly with her Democratic colleagues on the committee — Reps. Bennie Thompson; Zoe Lofgren, Adam Schiff, Pete Aguilar, Stephanie Murphy, Jamie Raskin and Elaine Luria. “I’m honored to be on this committee. We have an obligation to have a thorough, sober investigation of what happened leading up to January 6th and the attack on the Capitol on that day. So I’m honored to be chosen,” she said. Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.,— two solid conservatives unafraid to speak the truth about former President Donald Trump — were the only two Republicans to vote with Democrats on Wednesday to create the select committee. There was speculation Pelosi would ask one of them to be on the panel, since the Speaker said she was considering tapping a Republican.
