Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) voted against establishing a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Pfluger had called the insurrection "a day of needless violence" on Twitter. He told San Angelo Live:
“This is completely and utterly un-American. I condemn all violence happening at the Capitol. We are a country of law and order. Laying siege to the Capitol building is in total opposition to our ideals. I could not be more disappointed,” Pfluger stated.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promised on January 9th:
Congress will provide the full resources to bring perpetrators of Wednesday’s attack to justice.President Donald Trump's ego was the root cause of the attack. Thirty five Republican House members stood up to Trump's ongoing lies and belligerence.
As an independent voter who last registered Republican I want to know what was going on inside the White House while Trump supporters ransacked the Capital, using its halls for a lavatory. Pfluger and McCarthy walked past MAGA urine and excrement to vote against certifying Arizona's election results.
Two Texas Republican Representatives voted for the January 6th Commission. Both are veterans, Tony Gonzales (Navy) and Van Taylor (Marines). Both served in war theaters, Iraq and/or Afghanistan. Time will reveal the price they pay for their courage. Former President Donald Trump has a wicked vengeful side.
The Senate will determine if a January 6th Commission is established. Sen. John Cornyn earned a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia in 1984. Senator Ted Cruz graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995. Each experienced a violent mob intent on interrupting the election certification of Joe Biden as President.
That experience made no difference for 175 Republican Congress members. One went from barricading House Chamber doors to calling the day a normal Capital Tour.
Flashback to the Benghazi investigation:
"I've got to get the facts. I don't want to sound naive, but facts do not come with a color associated," Rep. Trey Gowdy said in May 2014. "There are not Republican facts or Democratic facts or swing-state facts. There are just facts."
It appears the public will not get to hear the facts about what happened inside the White House while the riot raged. This is extremely disturbing.
Update 5-27-21: The mother of slain Capital Police Officer Brian SicknicK is visiting the Capital today. She will ask Republican Senators to support a bi-partisan commission on the January 6th insurrection that took the life of her son. Capital Police describe an abusive relationship with many members of Congress whose lives they protected/saved that day. "We have heard all of this support for police, police, police, and then your own police force is battered and bruised and now you drag your feet?"
Update 10-30-21: Donald Trump intended to keep power by any means.
Update 1-3-22: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is calling the committee investigating January 6th a "partisan political weapon." The Sunday letter to his colleagues came after the public learned President Trump sat on his keister in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the Capital attack on television, ignoring two requests from daughter Ivanka to intervene.
