Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), who served as a House impeachment manager in then-President Trump’s first impeachment trial last year, on Sunday urged his Democratic colleagues to move forward with creating a commission investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after Senate Republicans deployed the filibuster to block it.
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A “partisan investigation” is exactly what they want to see, it’s the only way they’ll be able to dismiss the damning findings, wringing their hands and accusing Democrats of playing politics. It was their game during both impeachments and they’re falling back on it again. If it’s “partisan” it can’t be true, right? If we aren’t the ones saying it’s so then it won’t be so. And here’s Collins already seeding the ground.
Yep. Just patriotic tourists passing through to lynch the Vice President.
I think they’re going to have a hard time doing that except with the trumpanzees, who are irredeemable anyway.
The problem is that this fall the trials of all of the insurrectionists are going to begin, and we’re going to see what they were trying to do in their own words. That is not going to be a good look for the MFWWNBN, Hawley, Cruz, Gosar, Brooks, etc.
Crow replied that it’s a question of whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will take another vote on the commission, and if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) believe that vote would be in good faith.
Please don’t do this. The guy who said he’d consider it a personal favor if Senators voted against the commission does not deserve a second bite at the apple. It would be an absurd waste of time. Let’s act like it’s a 5 alarm fire on our democracy, because it is.
Yes, and no, if it means some members of Congress (either house) or their staffers have to testify under oath.
I know the Mueller report didn’t go so well but, they did seem to get folks to talk to them (except TFG). A presidential commission wouldn’t have subpoena power without congressional approval. A House Special Committee would have issues. That commission should only have R’s who voted for a Commission (not likely I know) but at least then something might get done. Not great options. Also remind folks repeatedly that is only “partisan” because the R’s don’t want any investigation of their own complicity. They had their chance, now don’t let them screw it up.
I couldn’t care less whether anything “has credibility” with Susan Collins.
Yeah, that’s the fear all right. Which raises the question of what happens if a Dem-controlled Select Committee asks McCarthy to testify about what Trump said on that phone call during the riot. Is the House empowered to subpoena the minority leader if he refuses to testify?
I think the end result is that McCarthy will just say he was under stress and can’t remember what was said on the phone, so it won’t go anywhere. But the mechanics of getting him into a chair to testify that he can’t remember will be interesting to watch.
Susan Collins has her own credibility problems, going back years.
Didn’t people in the room with McCarthy at the time relay his side of the conversation? Or did he tell his colleagues after the fact? I don’t remember exactly how that convo got out to the press, but it would be nice to force him to face up to the quotes. “Were you lying then, or are you lying now?”
I’m not so sure that this isn’t ANOTHER short sighted ‘NO! DAMMIT!’ vote by Republicans so they can whine about partisanship and praying and hoping that their ‘supporters’ won’t remember the FIRST vote where they actually voted AGAINST bipartisanship. They are out there this weekend trying to CONVINCE the rubes that Democrats are Satan worshiping, blood drinking pedophiles that attacked the Capitol. They have nothing else.
“I decline to testify”
“On what grounds?”
“Executive Privilege!”
“But I thought Trump didn’t have anything to do with it”
Let’s be clear. Mitch McConnell says he fears a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6 would hurt the GOP’s chances of retaking the House and Senate in 2022.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 29, 2021
He is ADMITTING that getting to the truth is bad for his party.
The senate shouldn’t get a second chance. Those that left before voting were running away.
Can someone please explain to me why someone who spends time, money, and sweat to run for office because of…“ideals”…“accountability”…“patriotism”…and runs away from doing the basic part of the job of voting?
