Maybe the most important thing for patriotic Americans who love democracy to understand right now is that the Big Lie didn't come to fruition on January 6, January 6 is merely its birthday. The Big Lie is *expanding* and becoming *more* pernicious and a greater threat to America.
A congressional January 6 probe will be far *more* effective if it's run by the House under rules set by Democrats. The only reason an effort was made for a bipartisan/bicameral Commission was to try to stop the spread of the Big Lie through Congress. That effort will fail today.
If there'd been a bipartisan/bicameral Commission, Kevin McCarthy would have had no political leg to stand on in waging the fight against his subpoena that he plans to wage, which could last for over a year—critically, beyond 2022. This way, he can fight a subpoena and be a hero.
McConnell has a sense of what the testimony is that Kevin McCarthy would give against Donald Trump, and that testimony would be historically inculpatory. The same goes for the testimony of other witnesses. McConnell and McCarthy need to try to discredit that testimony in advance.
So people should stop wondering why the GOP is going to block a Commission that's a great deal for them later on today. The reason is that they need to be able to discredit to their base and America any evidence that comes out of the House. Because that evidence will be very bad.
But it's even more perverse than this. The GOP will use any House commission—even it if it includes *many* House Republicans—as a political talking point in the runup to the 2022 midterms. So it's not just that they oppose an investigation, it's that *they* plan to politicize it.
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