This Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill passed by the House that sought to create an independent commission to investigate the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Only six Republicans voted to advance the bill, according to reports.
Unsurprisingly, the vote results sparked a huge wave of backlash and condemnation from people accusing Republicans of looking the other way from an event that some have compared to 9/11.
Pathetic Cowards.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1398313031134744578\u00a0\u2026— Michael Steele (@Michael Steele) 1622218984
Disgraceful. A bipartisan commission to investigate an attack on America and prevent the next one should have been a no brainer. The Senate and our politics are broken. The filibuster must go.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-commission-senate/2021/05/28/54e9f692-bf27-11eb-b26e-53663e6be6ff_story.html\u00a0\u2026— Noah Bookbinder (@Noah Bookbinder) 1622219257
51 senators can seat a Supreme Court justice but 54 senators can\u2019t establish an independent commission to investigate a violent insurrection in their own damn building.— Steven Mazie (@Steven Mazie) 1622219252
I agree with Gladys Sicknick, whose son Brian was killed defending us, that voting down the 1/6 commission is a \u2018slap in the faces of all the officers who did their jobs that day.\u2019— Richard Blumenthal (@Richard Blumenthal) 1622219240
Today is one of the most shameful days in the history of the United States Senate. Enough already. The Republican Party has again bowed to sedition. And @JoeManchinWV has again proved that he can't deliver 10 Republicans for his precious Jim Crow filibuster-loving bipartisanship.https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1398312068898594820\u00a0\u2026— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37) 1622219463
Republicans in the Senate blocked January 6 Commission -\n\n54-35\n\n60 votes were needed\n\nShame on you! People need to know.\n\n#Insurrection— Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda (@Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda) 1622219354
Shameful. January 6th was an appalling attack on our democracy and the Republican Party is beholden to the man who led it.\n\nWe must end the filibuster and safeguard our democracy.https://twitter.com/ap/status/1398312664259088389\u00a0\u2026— Juli\u00e1n Castro (@Juli\u00e1n Castro) 1622219354
Trump's army of weirdos engaged in a violent invasion and occupation of Congress, following his orders, and the spineless Republicans would rather motorboat his disgusting ass than to find out how it all happened. Prepare the midterm ads.https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1398311790770012166\u00a0\u2026— Bob Cesca (@Bob Cesca) 1622219335
Your reminder that in November 1923, Hitler\u2019s attempted coup failed. But no one was held accountable. Ten years later, he took over Germany.\n\nTrump\u2019s January 2020 coup failed. But Republicans blocked an independent commission to hold leaders accountable.— Robert Reich (@Robert Reich) 1622219331
This is where we stand right now. Without reforming the filibuster, we can't even get a bipartisan commission investigating an insurrection. \n\nThe choice is simple: protect the filibuster or protect our democracy.https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1398313514507411457\u00a0\u2026— Leah Greenberg (@Leah Greenberg) 1622219451
By refusing to end the filibuster, and with it the anti-democracy GOP\u2019s power to stifle the will of the majority, @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema are all but ensuring that fascist Trumpism will win. What, precisely, do they imagine they\u2019re upholding?— Cari Luna (@Cari Luna) 1622219397
Never forget this same party spent years & years, & millions of dollars, on a Benghazi commission whose sole task was disrupting the sadly inevitable Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton.\n\nThey don\u2019t care about democracy or the well-being of our Republic, only Power.https://twitter.com/AP/status/1398312664259088389\u00a0\u2026— Chris Reed (@Chris Reed) 1622219404
