{"id":48201,"date":"2021-06-04T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48201"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:22:42","slug":"we-need-a-probe-into-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48201","title":{"rendered":"We need a probe into Jan. 6!"},"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\/2021\/06\/riot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48202\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/riot-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/riot-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/riot-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/riot.jpg 980w\" 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>If only the congressional obstructionist caucus &#8212; comprising Republicans, of course &#8212; would appreciate the gravity of the attack that occurred on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>They can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t accede to demands from Democrats that there needs to be a thorough accounting of the insurrection that occurred on that horrible day.<\/p>\n<p>As many in Congress have noted: The nation&#8217;s Capitol has been attacked twice in its history and this attack, unlike the first one during the War of 1812, was done by Americans. It was an attack on our governmental process and it sought to overturn the results of a certifiably free, fair and legal presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are now left to weigh how they could proceed without Republican cooperation, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer have insisted on.<\/p>\n<p>As The Hill reported: <em>In a call this week with House Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/556394-pelosi-floats-democrat-led-investigation-of-jan-6-as-alternative-to-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"62\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:62,&quot;p&quot;:59,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:3}\">floated four different routes<\/a>\u00a0Congress could take: have the Senate vote again on the House-passed bill to create an outside commission; form a select House committee, consisting of lawmakers hand-picked by leaders in both parties; allow several sitting committees to continue their probes into Jan. 6; or empower a single House committee, like Homeland Security or Oversight, to take the lead on the investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/democrats-debate-shape-of-new-jan-6-probe\/ar-AAKHrl8?ocid=msedgdhp\">Democrats debate shape of new Jan. 6 probe (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, we know the outlines of the event. Donald Trump held a rally on the Ellipse that morning. He revved up the riotous mob. The terrorists then marched on the Capitol Building. They stormed into the place. They injured many of the cops trying to protect members of Congress and the vice president from the mob. One of the DC cops died in the melee. Donald Trump did nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>A thorough investigation into the event can determine ways to prevent it from happening again. That solution lies at the heart of the need for this probe.<\/p>\n<p>If only congressional Republicans would buy into the need to prevent a repeat of the attack that threatened them, too.<\/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 If only the congressional obstructionist caucus &#8212; comprising Republicans, of course &#8212; would appreciate the gravity of the attack that occurred on Jan. 6. They can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t accede to demands from Democrats that there needs to be a thorough accounting of the insurrection that occurred on that horrible day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We need a probe into Jan. 6!<\/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":[9596],"tags":[9593,1424,1941,2280],"class_list":["post-48201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-riot","tag-dc-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48201","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=48201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48203,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48201\/revisions\/48203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}