QUESTION ASKED: Is this Commission really necessary?
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would establish a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The vote was 252-to-175, with 35 Republicans supporting the measure.
The Senate is unlikely to follow suit. Majority Leader McConnell opposes the House bill. He calls it a “slanted and unbalanced proposal” and a “Democrat trap.” Enough Republican Senators agree, or else don’t want to buck the Leader (not to mention former president Trump), to prevent the bill’s passage.
I don’t doubt that the House bill is slanted in favor of the Democrats and that the Dems’ motivation is political. They want to milk the January 6 attack for all its worth, and more.
But the key question is whether investigation by a commission is needed. The events of January 6 were appalling, in my view. However, not every appalling event requires a commission to investigate it.
The events of 9/11 warranted a commission, and the commission the Dems want now has been compared to that one. But to me, the comparison makes the case against a 1/6 commission.
The unlikely political duet of George Will and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disagree:
● Watch: George Will compares January 6 storming of the Capitol to 9/11. Exit quote: “You do not get to lie about September 11, 2001 for political reasons because of Donald Trump.”
● Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals she’s in therapy following ‘attempted coup’ at Capitol: AOC “says she is in therapy following the ‘all-out, attempted coup’ at the Capitol on 6 January. Speaking to the weekly public radio show Latino USA on Friday, Ms Ocasio-Cortez said members of Congress effectively ‘served in war’ during the traumatising event that had ‘deeply affected lawmaking’ and impacted the legislative process.”
(Updated and bumped.)