The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a hardcore, cruel attack on a government building with the express mission of changing an election outcome, with five people dying either shortly before, during, or after the event, the whole scene obvious as shit.
And it’s a major American history milestone, mostly first of its kind. The attacks on the World Trade Center and Pearl Harbor, bigger in scope, but came from ‘outside’ the house, unlike Jan. 6, 2021. And not a war move either, just a criminal, strong-arm attempt to circumvent the law.

Six months later, Republicans want to end any inquiry into the event, put the past behind us, move on. As I posted this morning about how, poll-wise, 68-percent of GQPers think “there has been too much focus on the January 6th events at the U.S. Capitol.” However, 50-percent of the US electorate disagree.

Republicans shot-down a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection/riot a month ago, now the screw’s turned. In that Capitol-building event, there’s more even beyond what met the eye, yet we know that alrerady. However, there way-most-likely a shitload shit yet uncovered.
In the scope of the incident, this a good step in the right direction:

JUST IN: @SpeakerPelosi has introduced legislation to form a select committee to investigate the 1/6 Insurrection.
Committee would be 13 members total- 8 chosen by Pelosi.. 5 by McCarthy.
A Pelosi aide tells @CNN she is seriously considering a Republican for one of her 8 picks.

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) June 28, 2021

Detais via CNN late this afternoon:

According to the resolution, the committee will be made up of 13 members.
Eight of those members will be appointed by Pelosi, five will be picked in consultation with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
While Pelosi did not tip her hand as to who she plans to choose to chair or serve on the committee, an aide tells CNN that she is seriously considering a Republican as one of her eight picks.

Pelosi chose to go the route of a select committee after Senate Republicans used a filibuster to block legislation that would’ve created an independent, bipartisan commission made up of members not currently serving in Congress.
This select committee will now be run by House Democrats, have subpoena power and will not be given a strict deadline to finish its work.

“Senate Republicans did Mitch McConnell a ‘personal favor’ rather than their patriotic duty and voted against the bipartisan commission negotiated by Democrats and Republicans,” Pelosi said in a statement Monday.
“But Democrats are determined to find the truth.”

It remains to be seen how cooperative McCarthy will be. His role on January 6 could be a focal point of any investigation.
The California Republican called Trump as the former President’s supporters stormed the Capitol and asked him to tell them to “publicly and forcefully” call off the mob.
GOP Rep. Jamie Herrera Butler said McCarthy told a group of Republican members of Congress that Trump refused to do so and told McCarthy that the rioters cared more about the election results than he did.
McCarthy has yet to fully recount that phone call in public but has said multiple times that he would be willing to testify in front of the commission or committee if asked.
“I have no problem talking to anybody about it,” McCarthy said last week.
“I don’t know what the conversations that day would matter as that’s going on.”

And in the Pelosi Republican selection-gesture from The Washington Post, also late this afternoon:

The suggestion that Pelosi might include a Republican among her appointees immediately stirred speculation about whom she might choose.
Some GOP lawmakers, including Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), have been vocal in criticizing Trump over his actions surrounding the attack.
Cheney was ousted from House Republican leadership last month because she continues to challenge Trump over his false claim that the presidential election was stolen.

Cheney and Kinzinger were among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.

Tomorrow, a House procedural vote on the measure, and maybe Wednesday a vote on the legislation itself.
In a backward thought, MoscowMitch and the Senate GQPers might should have stayed with that independent commission thingie they shut-down — it would have been composed of 10 commissioners (five Democrats and five Republicans) and a Democratic chair and Republican vice chair with a final report due at the end of the year. Now it’s a eight to three thingie, with Democrats pretty-much running the show.
Republicans are indeed assholes, and they’re really not that smart.

A trait deep in the bowels of GQP history:

No myth about the T-Rump’s White House — they’re vicious idiots…

(Illustration out front by Kelly Caminero, and found here).