Has nothing to do with Trump telling that mob to get out of the Capitol.
U.S. lawmakers are not serious. They have traded stewardship and public service for publicity stunts and theatrics.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to seat Republican members on the
partisan January 6 Commission—where she staged an
emotionally wrenching but largely fact-free affair
—is a reflection of Congress’ growing inability to fulfill its oversight function. Congressional members undoubtedly prefer raw partisanship and media operations to their duty of discovering the truth about difficult events.
It was not always this way. In fact,
Congress once strived to conduct significant investigations designed for the purpose of understanding the nature of threats and challenges facing the United States.
Compare the theatricality of the January 6 Commission hearing to the work of the 90th and 91st Congresses from 1967 to 1969. Then, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations published a 23-part series of substantive reports about the deadly riots that devastated cities across the United States between 1965 and 1968.
Senate investigators commissioned a survey of more than 137 affected cities to calculate incidents of arson, looting, sniper fire, and police and civilian deaths and injuries. They interviewed police, intelligence personnel, professional researchers, and non-profit leaders, about the nature of militant groups. They spoke on a bipartisan basis to mayors and local government leaders about their experiences and local and state efforts to improve urban living conditions, lessen racial tensions, and mitigate agitation from militants.
Most Americans favor a genuine investigation into the political violence that erupted during the summer of 2020. A National Police Association/Rasmussen Reports Poll
showed that 66 percent of Americans want the Summer 2020 Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots investigated, in results that transcend both racial and partisan lines.
Yet congressional Democrats have staunchly refused to address the riots which resulted in more than $2 billion in damages and dozens of lives lost, preferring instead to focus solely on a single incident in which one person, protester and U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, was killed by a police officer.
We are unlikely to get a real investigation of those riots, however, because the data available isn’t friendly to the Democrats’ narrative, or more particularly those who offered full-throated support of BLM protest organizers and are now baying for the blood of January 6 protestors.
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