[Political Junkie Too]

And just like that, McConnell (and Cheney’s) plan to purge the party of the new populist right appears to have unraveled. So how did the worst laid plans of mice and Mitch go so quickly to pieces?

It's about our ethics.

Republicans resent that their base holds them to higher standards than the Democrats are held to by their voters.

That puts Republicans in the position of actually having to work for their votes, make promises, and then defend their actions against those promises. These are things their Democrat counterparts don't have to do, and the Republicans hate it.

To them, the double standard is not that the MSM let's the Democrats get away with everything, it's their own voters do not.

-PJ

[Alberta's Child]

I think most people in Congress -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- are also absolutely outraged to the point of lunacy because of the hilarious side of the Capitol invasion. Trump supporters might be angry, but most of those who sacked the Capitol and had their photos plastered all over the internet actually looked like they were having a good time.

They're trying to paint this as a cross between Benghazi and Fort Sumter because they're humiliated at the optics of having Hagar the Horrible and a bunch of overgrown adolescents take over the Capitol.