The Jan. 6 melodrama won't end with a commission

Republicans need to do themselves a favor and end the melodrama over what happened on Jan. 6 by rejecting yet another investigation into it. They took a big step on that Friday when they blocked the Senate from setting up a supposedly “independent” commission.

In the months since the riot happened at the Capitol, the public has been tortured with black-and-white collages of melancholy Democrats, weepy testimonials from on-site journalists, and moaning accounts from inconsolable Hill staffers, who apparently just can’t get over it.