By John Kanelis / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
President Biden is facing a quandary.
He wants Congress to create a bipartisan commission to examine the cause and impact of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Congressional Republicans have dug in deeply against it, wanting to protect themselves perhaps as well as Donald John Trump, the imbecile who instigated the riot that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
So, what does the president do? He could create a commission on his own. He could allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appoint a select committee.
The U.S. Senate backed away from furthering a House-passed bill creating the commission. Newsweek reported:
On Saturday, Virginia Democratic Representative Gerry Connolly called on Biden to bypass Republicans and instead create a presidential commission.
“In light of the GOP’s cowardly filibuster of a bipartisan Jan 6th commission I urge President Biden to form and appoint a Presidential Commission to fully investigate the insurrection of January 6th at the US Capitol,” Connolly tweeted.
Even though such an idea is fraught with concern over how impartial such a presidential commission can be — given that the current president’s victory in the 2020 election is the reason for the insurrection in the first place — I am willing to endorse its creation.
I have a caveat to offer: President Biden must ensure the bipartisan nature of a presidential panel and then he should simply back away and let the group do its job without any hint of interference from the Oval Office.
Joe Biden has been around the halls of power long enough to understand what is proper. My sincere hope would be that the president would ensure a thorough probe into the events leading up to the Jan. 6 riot by the mob of terrorists. If only he could persuade the Trumpkins out there of its honesty.
They are likely to hang instead on the Big Lie that their idiotic hero keeps telling.
Biden has to worry about all the crap he’s screwed up in his short tenure. He’s taking us all down fast. We will never co e close to getting out of the debt he’s creating. It’s going to be tough to get the jobs back with all the handouts he’s giving. When his own party says he’s to far left, there’s a problem. At least he’s partially waking up to the fact that China did possibly/probably create the virus in a lab and not a transfer like WHO kept saying. Hmmm, who was correct on that statement in the beginning?????