(Big League Politics) – The Democrats’ 9/11 style commission to use police state powers to investigate Trump supporters and other Republicans has been killed in the U.S. Senate, with six Republicans defecting to support the measure.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Rob Portman (R-OH) joined the Senate Democrats and voted in favor of the measure. Even though the measure received 54 votes, it needed 60 to clear the filibuster. 35 senators voted to kill the legislation.
#BREAKING: The Senate fails to reach the 60 vote threshold to consider the creation of a January 6 Commission, 54-35.
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) May 28, 2021
Big League Politics reported on Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) opposing the measure despite his well-publicized hatred of former president Donald Trump:
“Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has come out against the proposed Jan. 6 commission that would give Democrats police state powers to investigate Trump supporters and other Republicans as domestic terrorists.
McConnell is coming out against the measure after 35 Republicans betrayed their party, their nation and their sacred honor to sign onto the measure in the U.S. House. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has indicated that he intends to support the commission.
“I do not believe the additional extraneous commission that Democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts or promote healing,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Thursday. “Frankly, I do not believe it is even designed to do that.”
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), another Trump opponent in the GOP, has also said he will not be voting to approve the commission.
“I will continue to support the real serious work of the criminal justice system and our own Senate committees and urge my colleagues to oppose this extraneous layer when the time comes for the Senate to vote,” McConnell also said on the floor.”
Neocons, Never Trumpers, and fake news hacks are giving praise to the six Republican cowards on social media for betraying their party, their nation and their sacred honor:
Thank you to Senators Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Portman, Sasse, and Romney for voting for truth and defense of our constitution. History will remember those who put country ahead of politics.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 28, 2021
I’m still shocked and disgusted majority of GOP Senators voted against a bipartisan investigation on 1/6. The world witnessed it. Cannot be erased from history.
Thank u, Senators:
Collins
Romney
Cassidy
Murkowski
Sasse
PortmanYou did the right thing. Rest of you have no shame. https://t.co/7c8VmCrKwR
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) May 28, 2021
It was the least they could do—yet they deserve respect for it. Here are the GOP senators who voted FOR a debate on the creation of a January 6 Commission:
🟥 Bill Cassidy (LA)
🟥 Susan Collins (ME)
🟥 Lisa Murkowski (AK)
🟥 Rob Portman (OH)
🟥 Mitt Romney (UT)
🟥 Ben Sasse (NE)— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 28, 2021
Republicans are really going to use their first filibuster to block and investigation into a terrorist attack against the country.
… which is not a thing that would happen if the terrorists were nonwhite.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 28, 2021
However, true conservatives slammed the six defectors for demonstrating their opposition to the Bill of Rights and Constitution:
Mitt Romney pees sitting down. https://t.co/hMCbQt6CB3
— Ashley St. Clair 🇺🇸 (@stclairashley) May 28, 2021
These 6 GOP Senators voted in support of forming a January 6th Commission:
Cassidy
Collins
Murkowski
Portman
Romney
SasseRINOS!
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) May 28, 2021
These are the GOP Senate traitors (no surprise) who voted with Dems to classify 75 million conservative Americans as “MuH InNSUhweKsHUnIsts:”
Bill Cassidy (LA)
Susan Collins (ME)
Rob Portman (OH)
Mitt Romney (UT)
Ben Sasse (NE)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 28, 2021
BREAKING:
A photograph of Rob Portman, Ben Sasse, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins voting to advance the January 6th commission. pic.twitter.com/fb9GUembkb— Teresa 🗣 “Joe, you know Trump won.” (@thorsome2) May 28, 2021
House Democrats are expected to commence with a partisan witch hunt anyway to attack Trump supporters using Jan. 6 as the excuse to bring the war on terror into the homeland to target patriotic Americans – something that they have pined to do for many years.
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