An independent and non-partisan January 6th Commission, which was proposed to investigate the deadly insurrection on Capitol Hill by Donald Trump’s MAGA fanatics, is now being miraculously opposed by the Republican Party.
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On Tuesday, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (who originally supported the independent investigation) urged his membership to vote NO against today’s roll call vote for the non-political January 6th commission designed to reach a full accounting of the deadly riot by a pro-Trump mob. Apparently, Trump-flunkie McCarthy received his marching orders from ‘The Donald’ and was commanded to block the vote at all cost and to pretend January 6th never happened.
“Given the political misdirections that have marred this process, given the now duplicative and potentially counterproductive nature of this effort, and given the speaker’s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation,” McCarthy said Tuesday in a statement.
Instead, he attempted to steer the conversation away from the white supremacists and other Trump fanatics who stormed the Capitol and shift it to what he called “political violence” on the left by groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter — none of whom had anything to do with the January attack or the proposed January 6th commission.
After McCarthy claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had “refused to negotiate in good faith,” the speaker slammed Republican opposition as “cowardice” and released a letter from McCarthy proving that Democrats had incorporated all 3 of his principal demands for a commission modeled after the one that studied the September 11th terrorist attacks.
“I presume Trump doesn’t want this to happen,” House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer declared. “Enough said.”
Although Republicans were initially just as outraged as Democrats by the January 6th insurrection and ran for their lives along with everyone else as the crazed mob made their way onto the House and Senate floor looking for blood, Republicans have since cowered to Trump’s penchant for propaganda and desire to pretend the attack never happened. In fact, several GOP lawmakers are so fearful of the truth being made public, they have stooped to whitewashing the events of that day altogether.
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona (whose own family urged voters not to vote for him) is now calling Trump’s violent mob “peaceful patriots” and says the US Department of Justice is “harassing” the Trump loyalists.
Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina is claiming that the violet mob was not made up of Trump supporters at all, but were some alternate group pretending to be MAGA followers.
.However, it was Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia who made the most outlandish and absurd claim of all.
“Let me be clear, there was no insurrection and to call it an insurrection, in my opinion, is a bold-faced lie,” Clyde spewed. “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.”
The vote to establish an independent and non-partisan January 6th commission is scheduled to take place sometime Wednesday. Despite the whims of Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy to block the vote and act as if the attack never happened, several House and Senate Republicans are expected to support a full investigation.
Stay tuned…
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Republicans attempt to block January 6th commission.
When the guy said the attackers were just tourists going into the building peacefully I was done. The Repubs have become a joke. The old school ones need to save themselves and go start another party or something because their old party no longer exist.