Present day republicans are the biggest bunch of cowards in the history of American politics.

[Elwood P Dowd]

They're scared of Donnie Trump. They're scared of their base. They're scared of the truth coming out from a 1/6 Commission. The former republican head of the 9/11 Commission just said, "Some people were scared of what they may find out." That's the understatement of the century.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/29/9-11-commission-chief-republican-6-january-rejection-thomas-kean

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The head of the 9/11 Commission has told the Guardian senators’ failure to launch a similar investigation into the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol is “democracy’s loss”.

Thomas Kean led a bipartisan team that held public hearings, studied classified intelligence, interviewed two presidents and chased down conspiracy theories in producing a 567-page report on the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

The former Republican governor of New Jersey argued for an equivalent commission to study the Capitol riot but that effort was thwarted on Friday when Senate Republicans used their first legislative filibuster of Joe Biden’s presidency, stopping Democrats obtaining the 60-vote majority needed to set up the panel.

“It saddens me because there was no real public reason for turning it down,” Kean, 86, said by phone from Far Hills, New Jersey. “I guess some people were scared of what they’d find out. That’s not a good reason for turning it down.