ANALYSIS – The violent riot at the Capitol on January 6, and the failures leading to it, as well as the militarized overreaction afterwards, deserve an independent and bipartisan investigation akin to the 9/11 Commission. Americans need to know what exactly happened and who failed. And, as I have written earlier, they also need to know what justified the response afterwards.
But Americans also need to have faith in the integrity of the commission and investigation itself.
None of this will happen if Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi insists on forcing through a partisan sham inquiry run by a majority Democrat Commission. But this is exactly what Pelosi appears to be doing.
According to CBS News, “Democrats are proposing a structure for a commission to study the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that will allow their party to appoint the majority of the commission’s members…”
In Pelosi’s partisan plan:
…House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell will each get to appoint two people to the commission. President Joe Biden will get to appoint three members, including the chair, the aide said. That would allow Democrats to appoint seven commissioners and Republicans to appoint four. [emphasis added]
If this plan is followed, it would make a farce of the investigation, guaranteeing a partisan whitewash of Democrat failures, and make the inquiry itself a failure. As House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement last week – Republicans and Democrats should have equal say in appointing the commissioners, as was the case with the commission that studied the September 11, 2001 attacks.
CBS News reported McCarthy as correctly saying:
It is our responsibility to understand the security and intelligence breakdowns that led to the riots on January 6 so that we can better protect this institution and the men and women working inside it. A commission should follow the guidance of [9/11 commissioners] Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton to be ‘both independent and bipartisan’, and to preserve that integrity it must be evenly split between both parties.
In order to achieve this laudable goal, Congressman Rodney Davis of Illinois, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, drafted a proposal last month to create a commission that would have 10 members evenly divided between both parties. This is the path Congress should follow.
But Pelosi hasn’t stopped at simply trying to pack the commission with partisan Democrats. She has also been harshly criticized for tasking the highly partisan retired Lieutenant General, Russel Honoré, with reviewing Capitol security in the wake of the attack.
Republicans are outraged by his offensive and unprofessional public rants directed at various conservative Congressmen and Senators, as well as Capitol Hill Police, all before beginning his review.
The Washington Examiner reported that Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, called Honoré an “extreme partisan,” saying on Twitter that the retired general “should be the LAST person to head up an investigation of what happened at the Capitol on Jan 6th.”
well anything that has PELOSI involved in any way is a sham and doomed to failure due to one simple fact PELOSI is connected !
Give us a break! With the relentless news coverage of the Jan 6th gathering, you’d think that there was $millions in property damage and a war zone of death. Not even close! It was blown out of proportion by the leftist media! Actually, the damage and death caused by ANTIFA & BLM in our cities was many times worse! Where was the news coverage then?
Pisslosie is an idiot
How much time and money are they gonna waste. That agenda is going to slam them against the wall. They will fight against one another their will be no unity that’s long gone! This is the stupidest I have seen in my life time. Just hang on folks shit will hit the fan real soon! And it’s gonna stink everywhere
Dog & PONY show to keep your attention while they destroy all your rights and take everything you got. Another BS deal like they have been doing for years. Trying to fool you that they have your interest at heart and waste more time and money trying to impress you. HA,HA,HA,HA
Crazy Pelosi is a corrupt, lying Demosh*t!
Pelosi has to go , She is out of her mind, she should not be in office.
They’ll all be gone pretty soon! Just be patient. God has a plan and their are a lot of good men who will fulfill it . Better days are ahead. Trust ppl this great nation was founded on God. He will not forsaken thee!
She and many, many more starting at the top, immediately!
Who believes anything out of Washington or the media anyway.
So called media will be gone too , the left owns them and the left will be gone! He has spoken. Trust in the Father most heavenly power of all. Pray and pray everyday. We all must stick together no matter what negative the left spews out! Don’t believe any of it. We all are Gods ppl
Love thy neighbor help one another have compassion. That’s all it takes the rest will come!
The Jan 6th riot was NOT caused by anything President Trump said. It was cause by the democrats STEALING THE ELECTION.
Until THAT is addressed anything the democrats do will be suspect. And their ‘orders’ ignored.
The only way to fully get rid of Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and Harris, along with their underling lap dogs, is to vote all of them out of office. Biden, leading the Democrats since the 2020 election has intentionally caused the termination of thousands of good paying jobs, aggressively opened the southern border to let millions of illegal aliens into this country, pushed two stimulus bills through the House totaling close to 3 Trillion Dollars, with only about 10 percent of that money going to help those effected by the Covid-19 Pandemic while the rest goes to fund far left wing Anti-American proposals and ideology. And, Nancy Pelosi wants to pack the Commission reviewing the Capitol attack with democrats. Hopefully Americans, including democrats will wake up soon and realize Pelosi and Schumer are simply directing Biden in his signature destruction of our Country. See why the 2ndf Amendment is so important?. God Bless America
Now the fact that Brian wasn’t killed by a fire extinguisher like the NY Times lied about is known. NY Times famous “Anonymous source” lie. So it wasn’t a “Deadly” thing that happened. No one was armed. No where near a BLM riot that they refuse to prosecute over.
ANYTHING THAT PELOSI IS INVOLVED WITH ISN’T FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA ONLY GOOD FOR PELOSI AND THOSE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS PADDING HER AND THOSE LIKE HERS POCKETS !THOSE IN CONGRESS WHO WOULD ORDER AN IMPEACHMENT OF HER WOULD DO A TREMENDOUS FAVOR FOR AMERICA !
She is so rooted in the House that all she has to do is shake a little bit and all of the other members lose their nuts.
What a grand waste of time and $$. Too bad nasty Nancy wasn’t interested in the post George Floyd rioting and looting. She needs to retire she is too mean and retaliatory to be in office.
That’s because the democrats were the ones involved in the violence, and my guess is Pelosi knew it or was part of the plan. They are launching another attack on Trump and coverup for their own criminal behavior.
Just like the Mueller investigation, the goal isn’t about finding out what happened and how, but to try and blame Trump and the Republicans for the unrest on January 6th. The investigation should start with the question of how the November election ended with apparent fraud that gave the win to Biden. That might explain why so many people are questioning HOW the election was indeed stolen from the majority of Americans, and nobody on the left is even curious about the worst candidate the Democrats ever put up, managing to mysteriously get more votes than any person in history. Watergate used to be the biggest story in election tampering, but what happened in 2020 is infinitely worse, and MUST be addressed and corrected or the voters will never trust another American election, or any Democrat, nor should they.
Nothing new from the swamp. Nancy, just keep putting nails in your coffin. You deserve whatever punishment is waiting for you when you stand before God. I’d give anything to be there 😁
Why does Pelosi have to drag everything on. You failed at both impeachments lady, let it go and do what you are paid for. If you don’t need your money you can send to the American People.
PeeLousy planned the insurrection.
Let’s see what occurs on March 6th!
Can’t wait till this SF hag drops dead,she has done enough damage to our country for years to come.
Comrade Cheater Nancy Pelosi is using her “new Bible, the Marist/communist/hand/book to create this communist commission and to HELL with the Constitution and Bill of Rights”!!! She is proud to call herself “America’s First New American Communist Leader”???? Take a bow, Comrade CHEATER Nancy Pelosi, for you hace earned it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My thoughts are that Nancy Pelosi is a corrupt old has-been, using extreme partisanship to shape outcomes favorable to her party loyalists. Never has there been such an angry extremist running the People’s House and I wonder if our Republic can survive 2 years until we vote her out and take back the majority.
The Biden Crime Family Administration is the Problem!
Americans who have trusted our court systems to be fair and have integrity, we have been betrayed!
The courts are now Tainted!
As Americans, we can now see that even our highest Supreme Court has been compromised with people like Roberts(no respect for his “Supreme” title).
They have been exposed for being compromised and bringing America to the brink of collapse as our Constitution is crapped on, and our most precious Election and the Votes of “We the People” flushed down the toilet!
Pelosi is the pig wearing lipstick, she is the head of a multi-headed snake, and needs to be dispatched!
One sided for sure unless use 9/11 model
Rigged for OUR side to lose
Yet Dems seeded for riots since May
Why a commission? The commiecrats stole the election and people are pissed off.
Let me save them time and money. Nancey and Chucky and AH caused the protest on the sixth.
Which means it is doomed to fail.
What do you mean IF POLITICIZED? The SOLE PURPOSE is political.
If it can be rigged Nancy will be the person behind it. She has become venomous.
Do these people take night courses on how to abolish America via “The Commie Way”-is it like learning the pledge of allegiance to China? They are certainly well indoctrinated-they look evil-ex: pelosi and schumer and every time they open their mouths out spews lies lies and more lies ex: biden and fauci just to name a few; my how the “dogma lives loudly within them”.