Elise Stefanik Roasts Pelosi: ‘She’s a Lame Duck Speaker and Everyone Knows It’

Home Republican Convention Chair Elise Stefanik of New York lambasted Nancy Pelosi throughout a Tuesday morning press convention in Washington forward of the primary assembly of the Speaker’s 1/6 Committee, as a number of different prime GOP members piled on as nicely.

Claiming that Pelosi, California Democrat, “is essentially the most disliked elected official in America,” Stefanik went on to recommend that her days within the Speaker’s chair are numbered forward of the 2022 midterms.

“She all the time places her personal partisan politics over what’s greatest for the American folks,” Stefanik added. “She is an authoritarian who has damaged the folks’s Home. She is a lame-duck Speaker and everybody is aware of it.

“The rationale why Pelosi is refusing to seat completed and well-respected, hard-working Republicans like Jim Jordan and Jim Banks is as a result of she doesn’t need the American folks to know the reality or study the details” about what occurred the day of the Capitol protest, she added.

Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised to resolve the incident, answering questions on why it occurred and what situations might have been created or uncared for by Pelosi that made the Capitol breach doable.

“December 14, the management knew there was an issue,” Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) stated.

He added that lawmakers have been conscious of organizational issues inside the Capitol Police he stated Democrats weren’t considering addressing.

“There’s questions into the management inside the construction of the Speaker’s workplace the place they denied the flexibility to carry the Nationwide Guard right here” forward of Congress certifying electoral votes for then-President-elect Joe Biden.

The criticisms come after Pelosi final week rejected McCarthy’s nomination of Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana to be members of the committee, a transfer by the Speaker that was unprecedented.

“For weeks now, Jim Jordan and Jim Banks have been elevating some very robust questions — questions that must be answered about why Speaker Pelosi didn’t ensure that Capitol Police had all of the instruments they wanted to be ready for that day,” stated Home Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.

“Now, possibly as a result of they have been elevating these questions, they obtained canceled by this new cancel tradition that we see transferring all through the nation, led by Speaker Pelosi and lots of her socialist allies right here in Congress, the place they shut out robust questions that they don’t need to be requested or answered,” he famous.

Different Republicans chimed in as nicely.

“Whenever you spend a 12 months speaking about defunding the police and really defund the police, it’s kinda laborious to have extra police right here [at the Capitol] on Jan. 6 like they need to have executed,” Jordan stated, including that Capitol Police “deserved to have extra assist” on Jan. 6, “however the Democrats couldn’t do it due to the political situations they created all all through final 12 months.”

Banks famous that at Tuesday’s inaugural 1/6 Committee assembly a lot of Capitol Law enforcement officials will testify about their dire conditions in the course of the Jan. 6 protest however added that they could not have been in that place have been it not for Pelosi’s neglect.

“It’s clear at this level that Nancy Pelosi has cherry-picked the members to serve on this committee. She’s pre-written a story. Solely members who will persist with her speaking factors are allowed to serve on this committee,” stated Banks.

“If that is really a fact-finding mission to ensure that Jan. 6 by no means occurs once more, this isn’t what that appears like,” he famous additional.

McCarthy tried to re-appoint the 5 GOP members together with Banks and Jordan to the committee Monday night however he was rebuffed by Pelosi and Democratic leaders.

“For the primary recognized time within the historical past of the Home, the speaker of the Home rejected two of the minority chief’s nominees to a choose committee,” stated a decision McCarthy launched. “Speaker Pelosi’s personal press workplace acknowledged that this was an ‘unprecedented choice.’”

“Speaker Pelosi’s refusal to seat all 5 Republican members instantly harms the legitimacy, credibility, and integrity of the choose committee,” the decision famous additional.

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