Nearly all of the 29 Republicans in the House Problem Solvers Caucus are expected to vote for the bipartisan bill for a Jan. 6 commission produced by House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson and Ranking Member John Katko, despite Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's opposition to the deal.
Usually, the creation of another sweeping, lumbering government commission is no worse than a new chapter in the history of Washington overreach. But this fetish for a commission to wallow into the mire of the January 6 Capitol uprising is far worse: it is a planned exercise in malicious political theater designed to create heat while shedding no new light.
Is there anyone who is unaware of what happened that day? A massive crowd gathered in Washington to support the constitutional challenge to an election result fraught with troubling doubts. President Trump spoke at the White House, dispatching marchers to head eastward to the Capitol to gather (“peacefully,” as he instructed) to show solidarity with Republicans willing to assert that the COVID-concocted thwarting of election laws should impede automatic acceptance of electoral votes.