Republican Votes Against January 6th Commission Then Whines It Isn't Bipartisan

The House voted yesterday to create a select committee to investigate the January 6th Capitol Riot, with all but two Republicans voting against the measure. One Republican that voted against it - Rep. Michelle Fischbach - later complained about the fact that the committee isn't bipartisan, completely ignoring the fact that Republicans have had ample opportunities to throw their support behind it in both the House and the Senate. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the hypocrisy and why Republicans are not happy.

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Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to create a select committee to investigate the January 6th, Capitol riot. Only two Republicans in the House of Representatives, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, voted in support of creating this commission. The rest of the Republicans voted against it, including a little known representative by the name of Michelle Fischbach. And the reason that name is even important is because after this vote happened, Fischbach went out there and lamented the fact that, oh, it's such a shame that this thing isn't bipartisan. The Democrats are going to go out there, they're going to create this partisan commission and it's going to make Republicans look bad. You know, that's just kind of paraphrasing Fischbach's lament there.

But you do see the irony, right? I'm not the only one that sees this. Fischbach has the opportunity to support the thing thereby making it bipartisan. She votes against it. Then she says, oh no, why can't it be bipartisan. It can't be bipartisan, Michelle Fischbach, because of people like you and quite literally, almost every other Republican serving in the federal government in Washington, DC. You had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to make this thing a bipartisan committee, a bipartisan commission, an independent commission, but y'all voted against that every single time. This could have been something that members of Congress weren't even involved in except in the creation of it.

But you guys wouldn't let them do it. And so now you're going out there, you're trying to spew these idiotic talking points that, oh, you can't trust it because it's not bipartisan, but it's only not bipartisan because people like me wouldn't let it be bipartisan. Now you may do a good job of confusing and convincing some low information voters on your side that, yes, this is some kind of partisan witch hunt on behalf of the Democrats. But the average American out there understands exactly what's happened. Again, there've been multiple opportunities for Republicans in both the House and the Senate to vote in favor of the creation of an independent commission to look into this because they voted against it because you could not get both bodies of Congress to support this, Pelosi had to go and she did a great thing here, you know, she introduces the legislation.

It gets passed and boom, we're going to get the select committee to look into what happened. Now, the bigger question is why are Republicans so afraid of this? What do Republicans have to hide? Is it just because they don't want the public to remember that these were Republicans, these were Trump supporters, these, this was their base that stormed the Capitol. Was that it? Because the more we get into this, the more we talk about it, I'm not feeling that that's the only reason at this point. I think there's more to it than that. And that only bolsters the need for this select committee to investigate what happened. Republicans are clearly trying to hide something here and I think we all deserve to know what it is.