GOP Lies Fueled The Capitol Riot.

[UCmeNdc]

Of Course They Don’t Want A Panel To Expose That.


House Republicans opposed to a Jan. 6 commission also spread lies of a stolen election — the same lies that led to the insurrection. They know that.

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


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-overturn-election-january-6-commission_n_60a554c0e4b03e1dd391ec5c

[gab13by13]

1. It is more than just their lies,

Many were complicit with the planning, IMO. All but a handful are complicit because of spreading the Big Lie.

Still waiting for who authorized the Capitol tour?

[Champp]

2. And to find out who arranged the STAND BACK

for all of the uniformed personnel who might have aided the Capitol Police as they were swarmed by a violent crowd of republicans intent on overthrowing American democracy.

[Justice matters.]

9. Now, they (the 175 and soon the "less-than-50" in the Senate) are complicit in its cover-up. nt

[world wide wally]

3. Yep.

It doesn't take a law degree to figure this one out.

[Martin68]

4. "GOP Lies Fueled The Capitol Riot." Well....duh!

[gulliver]

5. No, power lust and resentment fueled both the lies and the riot.

They don't actually believe the lies they tell other than in the semi-religious sense. They want to dominate, so they do whatever mugger move it takes to dominate. Then they create a back story of lies to justify it and choose to believe them (to make themselves the good guys). Paranoids do the same sort of thing.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Why would the republicans not want an investigation?

The Party of BENGHAZI doesn't want us to investigate the insurrection? Is this real life?

Why would the republicans not want an investigation?

Who was in the Jan 06 insurrection/riot smearing poop on the walls of Congress, attacking police, seeking Mike Pence for execution, and vandalizing the Capitol Bldg?

The ONLY proof you need that Antifa had nothing to do with January 6th is the Republicans' refusal to form a commission to investigate it.

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

7. First, Huffpost, it was a putsch or insurrection. Second, Nancy *caved*?!?

Where have I heard language like that before? Next thing you know they’ll be saying she’s “spelunking.”

Sorry, UCmeNDC, but some words just trigger me.

[Cha]

8. UNREC for ".. Nancy caved... "

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Ya think?? JHC this was stoked, planned, distributed, re-stoked by 45 himself. COUP attempt. nt

[malaise]

11. As we will find out it was not merely GOP lies

it was GOP planning