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Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have recently been viewed as road blocks to President Biden's most daring initiatives for the country and, therefore, as potentially closer to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party. It is therefore ironic that it is these two relatively conservative Democratic Senators who are trying the hardest to persuade Republicans to join the Democrats in forming a bi-partisan "9/11 style commission" to investigate the January 6 insurrection. Why would they be taking the position they are? One possibility is that a Democratic led inquiry, like the Republican led inquiries into Benghazi, might be worse for the Republicans.
“'We implore our Senate Republican colleagues to work with us to find a path forward on a commission to examine the events of January 6,' the senators wrote in a joint statement.
The maneuvering amounted to a long-shot effort to salvage what may be the best chance at a full, bipartisan accounting for the most violent attack on the Capitol in centuries and a stunning series of security failures around it. Modeled after the panel that studied the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the proposed commission would produce a report of its findings and recommendations to prevent a repeat. It was also bipartisan; crafted with the input of a key Republican, the commission won 35 Republican votes in the House.
Still, G.O.P. leaders have moved swiftly to try to destroy its chances in the Senate amid fears of political fallout for their party of any close examination of the assault by a pro-Trump mob."
“'We implore our Senate Republican colleagues to work with us to find a path forward on a commission to examine the events of January 6,' the senators wrote in a joint statement.
The maneuvering amounted to a long-shot effort to salvage what may be the best chance at a full, bipartisan accounting for the most violent attack on the Capitol in centuries and a stunning series of security failures around it. Modeled after the panel that studied the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the proposed commission would produce a report of its findings and recommendations to prevent a repeat. It was also bipartisan; crafted with the input of a key Republican, the commission won 35 Republican votes in the House.
Still, G.O.P. leaders have moved swiftly to try to destroy its chances in the Senate amid fears of political fallout for their party of any close examination of the assault by a pro-Trump mob."
Manchin and Sinema Implore Republicans to Back Creation of Jan. 6 Commission (Published 2021)
The maneuvering by the moderate Democrats amounted to a long-shot effort to salvage what may be the best chance at a full, bipartisan accounting for the attack on the Capitol and the security failures around it.
www.nytimes.com