They had all these grandiose ideas about how they were going to show their people “the other side” of the story about the January 6th insurrection. They created a Weaponization Committee to prove it was all politics and nothing criminal ever happened.
They called the Twitter executives before them to prove they were biased against the Republicans and supportive of the Democrats. That backfired rather dramatically. The exact opposite was proven.
The Chairman, Jim Jordan, doesn’t have the courage to tell his people that there are no bullets in his weapon. He is shooting blanks.
Likewise, the move by Speaker McCarthy to give Tucker Carlson of FOXNews access to all the video files, was nothing but an act of desperation. They know there is no evidence to prove their case. They are only trying to kill time and keep the hounds from the door.
Republicans in the Senate have mostly decided to follow Mitch McConnell and admit that January 6th was an attack upon our Capitol and our democracy. Several of them finally spoke out in the last couple of days.
Republicans are backing themselves into a corner from which there is no exit.
