Hot Air:
there are consequences to elections.
Good luck with that. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi faces pressure from all sides in regard to the newly-launched select committee to investigate Benghazi. Participating would legitimize the results, while boycotting it might open up Democrats to attacks on their concern for diplomatic personnel abroad, four of whom were killed in the attack on September 11, 2012, and leave administration officials no way to set the narrative through the friendly questioning of Democrats on the panel during public hearings. Pelosi hedged in the direction of participation by demanding an equal number of seats on the committee:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the select committee probing the attack in Benghazi should be split equally between Democrats and Republicans.
“If this review is to be fair, it must be truly bipartisan,” Pelosi said in a Tuesday morning statement. “The panel should be equally divided between Democrats and Republicans as is done on the House Ethics Committee. It should require that witnesses are called and interviewed, subpoenas are issued, and information is shared on a bipartisan basis. Only then could it be fair.”
Unfortunately for Pelosi, her own track record with select committees sets the precedent in the other direction. John Boehner pointed out — and Politico’s Jake Sherman did as well — that Pelosi gave Democrats nine of the fifteen seats on the House select committee on global warming in 2007.
Newly-appointed chair Trey Gowdy poured cold water on that demand immediately (viaThe Right Scoop, at the 4:30 mark):
Perhaps someone should tell Pelosi what she could do along with her horse she rode in on. This would require volunteers and could be a suicide mission.
I read this somewhere. “let Gowdy pass his committee and let Pelosi see whose in it”.
What a contemptible botox dessicated worm she is. This from the party that enacted the nuclear option because they couldn’t cram ultra leftist nominees through Senate approval rules without stacking the deck in favor of dems.
God bless Rep. Gowdy!