President mike pence pushed back against all of this. and the consequent some 800 people have been charged with crime because of the invasion. i think one of the messages coming out is the republican party found this reprehensible in the system by a large is held up in the wake of this terrible event. paul: kim you wrote this week it think the committee has squandered a lot of its credibility by the way it was formed and by the way it has operated. why don t you explain that? it is a real pity too, paul this a message that deserve to be communicated to americans but here s a problem with this committee. remember how it was formed nancy pelosi decided to veto two of kevin mccarthy s pics as a result all of the republicans withdrew. as a result you have a committee that it s entirely full of democrats into anti- trump
The pandemic really does seem to have instigated a lot of parent involvement here. but it takes time, takes effort it takes perseverance. and of course the powers that be in school boards have all of those and they also have some money. i wonder if this is going to take winning a more than a few elections and structural changes a school choice to change with charter schools, vouchers and other things that make a permanent difference. not just temporary outrage. i am optimistic here, paul. one reason why is the new adherence to school choice that have come on board encoded in the years leading up to covid that is asian americans. we sought in california and san francisco recalls they really found their voice on this issue. and pushing back against this attack on meritocracy school tests and so forth.
Paul: credit called investigation politically motivated and say the are employed to distract voters but growing list of crises ahead of them the midterm election printers house house majority leader kevin mccarthy this week. i do not see any primetime hearing set for gas price, for battling inflation, for feeding our children, for making the streets safer. paul: were decked with dan heavier, kim strassel and jason riley. so dan, what did you make of the attempted case the committee is making that this was an attempted coup. that is essentially led by donald trump and ended up in that riot. in some ways it s an exercise in vocabulary really. there were very carefully chosen. they are saying the mob wasn t motivated by donald trump and so
Losses over the pandemic. kids who were already behind have fallen further behind. and at the schools want to focus on this race, gender, transit gender issue and all the rest of. i think parents are really, really fed up. it is a real opportunity here, paul, for conservative and republicans are take advantage of this moment. teachers unions give aldermen into democrats. republicans have nothing to lose here. paul: kim there is some accusations on the national media level this is all orchestrated. it got big money nationally going in. it s not as spontaneous and grassroots. is there any truth to that? and no i think that is what this report really shows. this is happening widespread across the entire country. most people have kids in school or sing it themselves. let me give you another example of the power of this, paul that just happened this week.
Not mean you re going to take action. that s out here on its own trying to fight in the fed is going way too slow. and so right now for sure the interest rate is below the natural rate of interest therefore monetary policy is stimulating and higher inflation. and for sure fiscal policy of the big deficit is stimulating higher inflation but that s the way i learned of freshman year economic sophomore 1980. that s what s happening right now. paul: you take no solace at all for what some people are saying is this latest report is fueled by gas prices in particular energy and food? if you strip those out inflation is only 6%. so you need to worry a lot less no solace there for you? think about this way. suppose you are a guy who makes car for a living you are an auto worker. that new car prices are up about 10% year-over-year per used car prices are up 16%. we were looking at your boss