When a mob of Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to stop the the members of Congress as they tried to validate the results of the November presidential election, it was an act of insurrection unlike anything since the Civil War.

Now, as some members of Congress try to set up a non-partisan, independent panel to investigate the events of that day and try to determine ways to prevent such an attack on our government from happening again, other Congress members are standing in the way. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he is opposed to such an inquiry, unless it also investigates other political violence in the country. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate GOP is “undecided,” and is willing to listen to arguments in favor of the panel.

Other GOP members appear to be trying to rewrite history. George Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde said recently the assault on the Capitol looked like “a normal tourist visit.” Others have called the insurrectionists who broke into the Capitol, assaulted Capitol police and were searching for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “patriots.”

These were not patriots. They were a mob that had set out to overturn the results of the election after weeks of listening to Donald Trump complain, with no proof, that the election had been stolen from him.

This insurrection rises head and shoulders above any other violent political attack and deserves a full, thorough, non-partisan investigation.

It is unfathomable that Republican leaders in Congress are dragging their feet on this.