Trump's grip on GOP looms as support falters for independent probe of Capitol riot

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Trump’s grip on GOP looms as support falters for independent probe of Capitol riot

By Karoun Demirjian
April 18, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

Congress’s pursuit of an independent investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection is facing long odds, as bipartisan resolve to hold the perpetrators and instigators accountable erodes, and Republicans face sustained pressure to disavow that it was supporters of former president Donald Trump who attacked the U.S. Capitol.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced late last week that she had drafted a fresh proposal for an outside commission to examine what caused the deadly riot. But in a sign of how delicate the political climate has become, she has yet to share her recommendations with Republican leaders, who shot down her initial approach, labeling it too narrow in scope and too heavily weighted toward Democrats in composition.

“Compromise has been necessary,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to other Democrats, informing them she had begun to share her latest proposal with other Republicans in Congress. “It is my hope that we can reach agreement very soon.”

A spokesman for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) declined to comment on a proposal that the leader had not yet seen, adding that “hopefully the speaker has addressed our basic concerns of equal representation and subpoena authority.”

Behind the scenes, Democrats are developing contingency plans. ...

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[magicarpet]

1. ReThugs want to subpoena Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton and Anti-Fascists,....

... then explore why the above caused the 1/6/3021 US Capitol insurrection.

[soothsayer]

2. Just keep them off it and who cares if it's not 50-50

Insurrectionists shouldn’t be on it.

[murielm99]

3. Make the offer to have it bipartisan,

and make it very publicly.

Have news conferences that state they won't cooperate, and go ahead with Democrats only. Turtle and lindsey whine and have news conferences. We can do the same thing.

If the assholes don't show up, use cardboard cutouts. They make about as much sense as cardboard cutouts even when they are present in the flesh.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. GOP leaders already know enough of the truth to realize the rest of it exposed would be catastrophic

for the party. It would expose the dark money players who enabled it and the instructions that good party members would be wise to look the other way when it went down. It would also make it impossible for those who have tried to walk between Trump insanity and the rest of the crooks in the party to pretend they weren't aware of some of it, if not participants at arm's length.