Investigating January 6th

The other day I was chatting with my mom, a lifelong conservative, and the topic turned to the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection.  She lamented that the group was supposed to be bipartisan, but Nancy Pelosi refused to seat certain Republican members, e.g., Jim Jordan, pointing out that the two Republicans are RINOs (in name only).

I grant that it’s vital to achieve impartiality, but the problem here is that you can’t have hardcore Trump supporters investigating the former president, any more than you can have a criminal defendant’s parents and siblings on his jury.

Is there such a thing as a Republican who opposes Trump who isn’t thought to be a RINO? Of course not.

In any case, the composition of the committee is old news; “it is what it is.”  What’s amazing is that it’s been extremely effective in garnering a great number of damning facts about what happened and who planned it.  It’s truly stunning.