rumitoid

(This Commission will not find anything more than what is already abundantly clear by their votes and public statements: Republicans incited and supported an attack on our democratic processes and the government itself.)

When the House voted Wednesday to pass a bill to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, 175 Republicans voted against it.

Why?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) caved on nearly all of the Republican Party’s demands in crafting the legislation. The bill itself is bipartisan (35 Republicans supported it). The commission would be bipartisan, with members equally divided along party lines. Its members would have shared subpoena power. Its final report would be due by the end of the year instead of in 2022, when Republicans eyeing their reelection campaigns definitely don’t want to be talking about that time President Donald Trump incited an attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead, hundreds of police officers injured and countless others traumatized, all based on Republican-backed claims that the election was being stolen

Some Republicans argued that an independent commission would duplicate ongoing congressional and criminal investigations. But the same was true of the 9/11 commission, which is the model for the proposed Jan. 6 commission.

Some said Democrats just want to use the commission to badger Trump. But, again, it would be an independent, bipartisan panel with outside members, with the singular goal of examining what led to one of the darkest days in American history.

Some said there was no insurrection at all and that Jan. 6 was just a regular day of tourism. That is delusional.

The most obvious reason why so many Republicans voted against creating an independent Jan. 6 commission is because they know they are complicit in what happened that day.

It’s one thing to have Democrats point out all the times Republicans echoed Trump’s lie that the election was stolen from him ― and how that lie led to so much damage and violence. It’s another thing if a respected, bipartisan panel of outside investigators makes those same connections and releases them for the public to see.

Republicans know that.

Republicans also know they are well-positioned to win control of the House in 2022, and an independent probe into what led to the insurrection could really mess it up for them.

There’s plenty of evidence out there that Republicans helped spread Trump’s lie. They did it in press releases. They did it in political videos. They did it in public speeches in front of large crowds. They did it in tweets. They went on live television and did it. It was all happening in plain sight.

And on Jan. 6, one of the most egregious attacks on democracy took place right after the insurrection and requires no investigation. It was when dozens of House and Senate Republicans voted to overturn the election based on that lie ― just hours after a white supremacist mob of Trump supporters smashed their way into the Capitol with plans to kill Pelosi, Vice President Mike Pence and others to stop them from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win. They did that because they believed the lie.

It should be no surprise, then, that nearly all of the same GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn the election also don’t want an independent panel to examine the Capitol riot. Of the 139 House Republicans who voted in January to overturn the election based on the lie, 131 of them voted Wednesday not to create a commission to investigate the insurrection that was fueled by that lie.

The most glaring names on the list are House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), House GOP Whip Steve Scalise (La.) and newly elected GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.). All three of them have peddled Trump’s lie. All three of them voted to overturn the election on Jan. 6. And all three of them tried to bury that reality on Wednesday.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/republicans-overturn-election-january-6-commission-220553711.html

microphor Loc: Home is TN

You people are ignorant

Liberty Tree

This is nothing more than a Democrat election commission that will drag out as long as possible and the one-sided conclusions alread written.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

It must really bereave you, rumitoid, and the other progressives of OPP to realize that not one of you stands above the rest of the world in God's eyes.

ImLogicallyRight

When you are so blatantly wrong in only your second sentence, it isn't worth reading

SOS NWR

DaWg44

Rumi, take your happy pills. Everyone but you liberal/leftist/ communist knows this commission is a waste of time & money. It is not bipartisan when the head of it is a liberal/leftist/communist.

Spending $1Billion on security for Senator & Representatives is criminal. Elected officials should do what the are supposed to & then they would not have to worry about their security. No tax money should be spend protecting scum that never should have been eligible to run much less get elected. None of the squad has any business being in Congress nor does Maxine or the two new piece of trash Senators from GA.

steve66613

Remember Tianenmen Square? There will be no dissent or insurrection against the Central Government nor our Dear Leader!

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

If I was an idiot progressive I'd do the same thing. I wouldn't want the American sheeple focused on this idiot administrations destruction of our country. On the other hand Biden sure kissed Putins ring.

currahee506

The "raid" on the capital has been by this fraudulent cabal that has stolen our government and made by its propaganda machine to look like it's part of our nation.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

The violence was an internal job instigated by Democrats.