Republicans in Array II

Mitch McConnell would consider it a personal favor if the Republican conference voted against any major investigation of that minor incident on January 6, which would totally not reveal anything negative about his party or its de facto Grand Poobah:

In the last 24 hours, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has ramped up the pressure on his GOP Senate colleagues to oppose a bill creating a January 6 commission, according to two Republicans familiar with his effort.One of those Republicans told CNN that McConnell has even made the unusual move of asking wavering senators to support filibustering the bill as “a personal favor” to him.”No one can understand why Mitch is going to this extreme of asking for a ‘personal favor’ to kill the commission,” said the Republican.

A McConnell aide told CNN that he was not aware of all of McConnell’s private conversations but said that what the Kentucky Republican says privately is no different than what he says publicly.

McConnell’s blunt appeal comes as Gladys Sicknick, the mother of fallen Capitol Hill police officer Brian Sicknick, is meeting with GOP senators to encourage them to support the 9/11 style commission to investigate the events of January 6; 14 GOP senators agreed to talk to her on Thursday. The two Republicans familiar with McConnell’s effort say it suggests the GOP leader is doing everything he can to make sure the bill does not move forward.

Of course, if the right flank of the Dem Senate caucus actually cared about the future of American democracy what McConnell wanted would be a moot point.