When the next attack comes, the blood will be on the GOP’s hands

And McConnell did it with a baldfaced lie. The bipartisan commission bill was negotiated by Rep. John Katko (N.Y.), the top Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s blessing. Katko secured virtually everything Republicans sought: Equal representation, subpoena power, a 2021 deadline, even the ability, if commissioners are so inclined, to examine the actions of antifa, Black Lives Matter and whatever else titillates Trump. The commission would have the uncontroversial charge of finding “corrective measures” in order “to prevent domestic terrorist attacks against American democratic institutions.”