On the House side they got support from 35 lawmakers….
On the Senate side they got 6….
But the bar in the Senate is 10….
No Joy…..
Sure the media narrative IS Trump triumphs again….
And the Bog Guy IS sure to embellish this point of view….
But one could look at the other side of things…
Slowly….
Donald Trump’s hold on things IS evaporating…
We’ll see if Democrats turn to the House for something….
Until then?
400 plus US Justice Dept. arrests will have to be the verdicts….
And the Big thinks he’s dodged the truth again…
Republicans on Friday blocked the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, using their filibuster power in the Senate for the first time this year to doom a full accounting for the deadliest attack on Congress in centuries.
With the vast majority of Republicans determined to shield their party from potential political damage that could come from scrutiny of the storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, only six G.O.P. senators joined Democrats to support advancing the measure. The final vote, 54 to 35, fell short of the 60 senators needed to move forward.
The vote was a stinging defeat for proponents of the commission, who had argued that it was the only way to assemble a truly comprehensive account of the riot for a polarized nation. Modeled after the inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the proposed panel of experts would have been responsible for producing a report on the assault and recommendations to secure Congress by the end of the year.
The debate played out in the same chamber where a throng of supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, egged on by his lies of a stolen election and efforts by Republican lawmakers to invalidate President Biden’s victory, sought to disrupt Congress’s counting of electoral votes about five months ago…
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Though Mr. McConnell said he would continue to support criminal cases against the rioters and stand by his “unflinching” criticisms of Mr. Trump, the commission’s defeat is expected to embolden the former president at a time when he has once again ramped up circulation of his baseless and debunked claims….
On the six Republicans who voted for the commission….
An unsuccessful bid to create a commission probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol garnered the support of six GOP senators on Friday.
Most Republican senators opposed the House-passed bill, marking the first successful filibuster of the 117th Congress.
But the support for advancing the House-passed legislation comes even as GOP leadership whipped hard against the bill, arguing it would be a distraction heading into the 2022 election. Thirty-five Republicans supported it in the House…
Note…
President Biden and Democratic Senator Manchin oppose getting rid of 60 vote majority rule in the Senate….
Looking forward….Schumer is reluctant to drop the rule with 50/50 Senate party numbers…
Trump wins a major victory by ordering his Republican stooges to kill this Commission.
They do…
And this “proves” that his support is evaporating?
As I say,only here will you read such rubbish.
Rep. Gerry Connolly
@GerryConnolly
In light of the GOP’s cowardly filibuster of a bipartisan Jan 6th commission I urge President Biden to form and appoint a Presidential Commission to fully investigate the insurrection of January 6th at the US Capitol.