I usually don’t write about politics unless there is a trans angle, but today is different. I am totally disgusted with the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, he is such a two faced little weasel.
McConnell doubles down to pressure Republicans, asking for 'a personal favor' to block January 6 commissionThe first question that comes to mind is “What is he hiding?” Followed by “What are they afraid of?”
CNN
By Jamie Gangel and Michael Warren
May 27, 2021
In the last 24 hours, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has ramped up the pressure on his GOP Senate colleagues to oppose a bill creating a January 6 commission, according to two Republicans familiar with his effort.
One of those Republicans told CNN that McConnell has even made the unusual move of asking wavering senators to support filibustering the bill as "a personal favor" to him.
"No one can understand why Mitch is going to this extreme of asking for a 'personal favor' to kill the commission," said the Republican.
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Only three Republican senators so far have expressed their support for the commission: Sens. Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Democrats would need a total of 10 Republican senators to break a GOP filibuster in order to advance the bill.’”
Collins, of Maine, has worked to tweak the bill to respond to McConnell's concerns but the minority leader is still opposing the commission. After meeting with Sicknick, Collins said she thinks her amendment to fix the "flaw" in the House bill addressed the major objection to the bill, and that she has secured the agreement of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her amendment.
The Washington Post reported that Senator McConnell said…
House passes bill to create commission to investigate Jan. 6 attack on Capitol, but its chances in the Senate are dim
By Mike DeBonis, Colby Itkowitz, and Jacqueline Alemany
May 19, 2021
Republican leaders are trying to sink legislation establishing an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that would probably scrutinize former president Donald Trump’s role in the riot and his conversations with Republican lawmakers that day.
The bill passed the House on a 252-to-175 vote Wednesday with 35 Republicans supporting the measure, but its chances of clearing the Senate dimmed after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) came out against the bill earlier in the day.
He said he opposes the legislation because it is a “slanted and unbalanced proposal” a day after he said his members were open to voting for the plan but needed a chance to read the “fine print.”
By refusing to have any Republicans on the commission seems to me that makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Also consider that these very same Republicans held 33 hearings on Benghazi and held hearings on then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails and they totally ignored Ivanka Trump use of private email servers to send government emails are now saying that the hearings on the January 6th Insurrection is political.
How dump do the Republicans think we are? Or are they just playing to their Trump base?
Are they afraid of the hearing finding that many of Republican congressional legislators were involved in the insurrection? Are they afraid that the hearings with find collusion between Trump and insurrectionists?
The voters want the hearings!
In a Quinnipiac national poll they found that…
With lawmakers divided over whether to form an independent 9/11 style commission to investigate the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, a majority of Americans (55 percent) say they view the events of January 6th as an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten, while 39 percent say too much is being made of the storming of the U.S. Capitol and it is time to move on, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea- ack) University national poll of adults released today. There are stark political divides on this question.The Republicans are so wound up in their “Big Lie” they don’t care what the voters think, they have developed a siege mentality and are circling their wagons to protect their “Golden Idol” Trump and not the Constitution nor the nation.
Democrats say 84 - 12 percent and independents say 54 - 42 percent that the January 6th storming of the Capitol should never be forgotten, while Republicans say 74 - 18 percent that too much is being made of it and that it is time to move on.
Asked whether each political party is acting in the best interests of democracy, Americans say ...
Republican Party: 59 percent no, 34 percent yes;
Democratic Party: 49 percent no, 44 percent yes.
The way to defeat the “Big Lie” is to expose their two-face politics and go out and vote! Vote! Vote! Vote in every election; town, state, and federal elections. That is what makes the Republicans nervous because they know when voters turn out an vote they lose.
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UPDATE 12:30 PM
CBS NewsBy Grace SegersMay 28, 2021 / 12:16 PMSenate Republicans blocked the House-passed bill creating a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Although most Republicans were unified in their opposition to the bill, worrying that a commission would drag into next year and potentially affect GOP chances of retaking Congress in the 2022 midterms, six voted to advance the bill.The vote to advance the bill failed by 54 to 35, well short of the 60 votes needed. Republican Senators Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, and Ben Sasse supported advancing the bill. All but Portman voted to convict former President Trump on the impeachment charge of incitement of insurrection in February.
What are the Republicans trying to hide?
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