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House Republicans have released a report on their investigations into the riot on January 6, 2021, that determines the breach of the U.S. Capitol building was Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fault.

The 141-page investigative report was independently published on Wednesday by Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND).

It outlines the failures of House Democratic Party leadership and Capitol authorities that left the complex vulnerable.

Pelosi went on to misleadingly credit Biden for job numbers.

The former House speaker claimed Biden “created 9 million jobs in his term in office.

“Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president, so we just have to make sure people know.”

Tur pushed back by giving context to the numbers, “That was a global pandemic.”

Pelosi paused for a moment and then snapped, “He had the worst record of any president.

“We’ve had other concerns in our country.

“If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine.”

Tur responded, “I don’t think that anybody can accuse me of that.”

Speaking of things happening differently, something else happened a lot differently this week as Democrats settled into their House minority roles. Axios quietly reported the story, headlined “Pelosi takes a hands-off role in House Democrats' internal fights.” More like a hip-off role. Usually, Nancy Pelosi hand-picks all the House committee assignments and whips the Democrats into line. You could almost feel sorry for them. But this time, the aging, day-drinking former Speaker, 106, was sidelined in Germany for hip replacement surgery (“hüftgelenkersatzoperation,” and I am not making that up).

During the House’s critical committee elections this week, Pelosi was persona absentia. “Pelosi,” Axios reported, “is charting a new, more detached course for working her will on the Democratic caucus she once ruled with an iron fist.”

That’s one way of saying it. Something was detached, that’s for sure. The article quoted a “Senior House Democrat” —too chicken to give his name— who admitted that "of course, Nancy was not in much of a position to make calls the last week."




Officially, Nancy’s surgery last Friday was an absolute success, she’s ready to take on the world again, looking to get back to her stock portfolio, she’s never felt better — according to a spokesman. Nancy hasn’t said anything herself, because nobody outside her circle has seen or heard from the Speaker since she fell in Luxembourg.

But the surgery was definitely bad timing what with Democrat committee elections this week, and the result was chaotic. Without her withered hand guiding the tiller, Pelosi’s preferred picks plunged into obscurity. ...

Did Pelosi’s choice of four-inch heels create a saner Democrat party in the House? And people say stilettos aren’t good for anything. We should be thanking them.

As far as I know, patients recovering from hip replacement surgery these days can get back on the phone a few hours following surgery. Is she in hiding? Was she sidelined? The entire party is painfully aware that Pelosi just stage-managed the Democrats’ direst defeat in living memory. They just don’t want to make Nancy’s banishment into a public spectacle.

The overextended, superannuated Pelosi era is over.