[Townhall] On Friday, Senate Republicans used the filibuster to defeat a bill to set up a January 6 commission, as Spencer reported, in a vote of 54 to 35. Before anyone points to how Republicans are evil and thus we need to bring back the filibuster, let's consider a commission which could receive support, overwhelming support. Why not a commission looking into the Wuhan virus, which is looking increasingly like it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
That very idea of a "9/11 style commission" was offered on Thursday night by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), while on "The Ingraham Angle," because "someone has to be held accountable." He also offered:
We should demand in Congress, if we're going to form a 9/11 style commission on anything, it should be about the origins of the coronavirus and the negligence on the party of the Chinese Communist Party, and those in our own government that allowed the coronavirus to spread and became a worldwide pandemic like it did.
Such an investigation is crucial. How is it nothing but non-partisan to acknowledge we need to know where the virus came from, if only so it doesn't happen again?
President Joe Biden is looking into the theory that the Wuhan virus came from the Wuhan lab, sort of. It's also more of a matter that he's getting around to it. It's the Biden administration that is making the investigation political.
We've covered at Townhall that the president canceled an investigation which had been launched by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In addition to referencing this canceled investigation, Lauren Ingraham also noted that there is unexamined evidence Biden has yet to examine, as reported by The New York Times.
What are we waiting for? See, this is why we need the commission. |