Onetime top Republican strategist and insider Bill Kristol has already gone to the other side with his anti-Trump attacks and his embrace of the Democratic Party. But now, he has cemented his switch by praising House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s creation of the Jan. 6 inquisition and elevation of another GOP rebel, Rep. Liz Cheney, as the co-chair of the panel.
“I think Nancy Pelosi does not get enough credit for doing everything she did to put Liz Cheney front and center at the Jan. 6 committee,” he said in a Zoom conference sponsored by the liberal think tank NDN.
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“How much resistance must there have been to that? Nancy Pelosi has to tell her own members: A.) Liz Cheney’s going to be on the committee. B.) She’s going to be vice-chair. C.) She’s going to be the star of the committee,” he told NDN President Simon Rosenberg.
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“Pelosi has, in this respect, I think, had a grasp of the coalitionable possibilities here. I mean, she thought it was the right thing to do, but in a way that very few Democrats have had and I think that Jan. 6 committee — we don’t know what effect that’s had and what effect Liz Cheney has had — but again, I think that could be something that’s that we’re not quite appreciating,” he added.
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Rosenberg went further, calling the panel “a miracle” and a twin with Obamacare as the two legacy achievements of Pelosi.
