Thread by @GregTSargent

The right response to Republicans opposing the 1/6 commission is that they're doing this because they're implicated in the crime. Their excuses are entirely unmoored from anything resembling good faith arguments. Here's a rundown of the 5 most absurd ones:
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Republicans claim the Jan 6 commission is "partisan."

That's nonsense on its face. But what they really mean is that if the commission doesn't give them absolute veto power over investigative direction, they won't permit for it to be called bipartisan:

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Republicans claim the timing of the commission is all wrong.

That's weird. It's been nearly five months since Jan 6. And the commission would submit its report before the midterms get going in earnest.

There is no timing that Republicans would accept:

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Republicans claim the commission must also investigate alleged widespread leftist violence.

They've spent months trying to both-sides Jan 6.

Their real goal: To obscure the truth about right wing radicalization and their own active fomenting of it:

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Republicans claim existing committees preclude the need for a Jan 6 commission.

What Republicans really want is for the scope to remain focused only on security -- and not on the causes leading up to the insurrection. Because that would implicate *them*:

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Outrage is the wrong response. That implies Republicans can be shamed into adhering to latent principles.

Instead, just note that they're implicated in a major crime against democracy, and they're covering it up.

As @joshtpm says, outrage is for chumps:

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