{"id":48150,"date":"2021-05-29T04:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48150"},"modified":"2021-05-29T04:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:21:34","slug":"six-gop-heroes-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48150","title":{"rendered":"Six GOP heroes emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AP_mitt_romney_kab_150114_16x9_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23035\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AP_mitt_romney_kab_150114_16x9_992-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AP_mitt_romney_kab_150114_16x9_992-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AP_mitt_romney_kab_150114_16x9_992-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AP_mitt_romney_kab_150114_16x9_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, just as I was castigating the congressional Republican caucus for being packed with cowards and suck ups, we see six GOP heroes emerge from the Senate ranks to do the right thing regarding a bipartisan commission to examine the Jan. 6 insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>These six Republican senators voted to advance the bill creating the commission; the problem, though, was that the bill needed 10 GOP senators to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p>The six heroes are: Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard already that Romney would vote &#8220;yes&#8221; on the bipartisan commission bill; I also had surmised Murkowski would vote to move the idea forward. I couldn&#8217;t predict what Collins or Sasse would do, as they have been a bit up-and-down on this issue of holding Donald Trump accountable for inciting the insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Six GOP crossover votes, though, weren&#8217;t enough. The commission needed 10 Rs to advance the bill.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll stand and cheer the six GOP senators for forgoing the bullying and bluster that Trump no doubt will level at them and voting their conscience &#8230; and for doing the right thing in seeking the whole truth behind the insurrection.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Well, just as I was castigating the congressional Republican caucus for being packed with cowards and suck ups, we see six GOP heroes emerge from the Senate ranks to do the right thing regarding a bipartisan commission to examine the Jan. 6 insurrection. These six Republican senators voted to advance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six GOP heroes emerge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9717,9593,1941,2280],"class_list":["post-48150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bipartisan-commission","tag-dc-riot","tag-gop","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48152,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48150\/revisions\/48152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}