Senate Minority Leader Mitch "Party over Country" McConnell was wrong, again.
In the spring of 2021, McConnell blocked Congress from authorizing an independent investigation of the deadly insurrection at the Capitol months before. Leave it to the Justice Department, the Kentucky Republican said: "I do not believe the additional, extraneous commission that Democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who doesn't take her cues from Donald Trump, went to Plan B: a select House committee to probe the backstory of Jan. 6, 2021. That McConnell and House Minority Leader "My Kevin" McCarthy forced her to that fallback — two supposed stewards of the legislative branch opposing an investigation of an attack on Congress — is a shame they own.
