Dadoalex
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So I'm watching the Senate on this commission thing and it seems not to make sense.
The truth on 1/6 is going to come out. By participating on the commission the GOP gets some control over how much, how, and when. With a Democratic led investigation in the House he'd have zero control over the direction and outcome. The democrats could literally take the investigation wherever they wanted.
It doesn't make sense. UNLESS:
Mitch is REALLY pissed of about 1/6. Not just the "touring of Congress" but the attempt to destroy the Constitutional processes that have preserved this democracy over 200 years.
Mitch is a scheming asshole but those constitutional processes have been the foundation of his power for a dozen years.
He considers those who voted to overturn the election and those who helped and supported the "tourist excursion" to be direct threats to the Constitution and to his power
So Mitch has decided to throw Trump and his supporters in Congress and at the state level under the symbolic Democratic bus.
It may cost him some seats in the short term but in Mitch' mind eliminating this cancer is worth the temporary setback.
It's win all around for Mitch. He gets rid of the Trumpinistas and gets to blame Democratic partisanship.
This is all speculation and I have no evidence beyond what is public knowledge.
The truth on 1/6 is going to come out. By participating on the commission the GOP gets some control over how much, how, and when. With a Democratic led investigation in the House he'd have zero control over the direction and outcome. The democrats could literally take the investigation wherever they wanted.
It doesn't make sense. UNLESS:
Mitch is REALLY pissed of about 1/6. Not just the "touring of Congress" but the attempt to destroy the Constitutional processes that have preserved this democracy over 200 years.
Mitch is a scheming asshole but those constitutional processes have been the foundation of his power for a dozen years.
He considers those who voted to overturn the election and those who helped and supported the "tourist excursion" to be direct threats to the Constitution and to his power
So Mitch has decided to throw Trump and his supporters in Congress and at the state level under the symbolic Democratic bus.
It may cost him some seats in the short term but in Mitch' mind eliminating this cancer is worth the temporary setback.
It's win all around for Mitch. He gets rid of the Trumpinistas and gets to blame Democratic partisanship.
This is all speculation and I have no evidence beyond what is public knowledge.