Thread by @fawfulfan

And there it is. Republicans are straight-up admitting they won't support a deal even if Democrats agree to every change they ask for.

Enough. Democrats should stop engaging in this nonsense and just empanel a House select committee.

https://twitter.com/andrewsolender/status/1397264646831226885

Here's the thing: we were never going to get a bipartisan commission on the Capitol attack.

We can't model this after the 9/11 commission. Republicans were fine with a 9/11 commission because they weren't the ones who fucking flew the planes into the towers.

Look, the 9/11 commission did great work and gave insight into our intel failures. But for the sake of political consensus, it both-sidesed Bush & Clinton's roles in security in a way that isn't 100% accurate.

That isn't possible with a 1/6 commission because IT WAS ALL THE GOP.

Any chance of there being a bipartisan commission died the second Republican leaders realized there's no way to write a report remotely resembling reality that doesn't squarely blame their party for spreading lies and conspiracy theories that inflamed violent paramilitary groups.

There was a window when GOP leaders thought they might be able to do it if they just put it all on Trump. But that died when they realized 1) Trump still has the party support, and 2) their policy goals on things like voting rights are explicitly underwritten by Trump's big lie.

So I say, fuck it. Stop pretending Republicans are doing anything in good faith. Create a House select committee that puts the entire Republican Party on trial for 1/6.