The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are having a hissy fit over Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) refusal to hang a plaque that references January 6 and claims to honor Capitol Police but uses inflammatory language to do so.

The Democrats posted on X on Sunday:

Congress passed a law to place a plaque in the Capitol honoring the officers who protected the transfer of power, Members of Congress and VP Pence on January 6. The plaque is complete and long overdue for display. But Speaker Johnson is leaving it in a dark closet rather than honor those who protected him on that day.

That’s why @RepRaskin and @HouseDemocrats are placing replicas outside their doors until the official plaque is displayed in the Capitol where it belongs.

Rep. Raskin (D-MD) appeared in the video with a replica of the plaque, which Congress voted to install by March 15, 2023 (with a Democrat majority at the time).

“It’s now two years overdue," Raskin said.

"Two years overdue"

Raskin, of course, said the plaque “honors the sacrifice and the valor, the commitment of the police officers who,” he claims, “saved us—the members of the House and Senate, who saved the vice president, who saved American democracy from a violent effort to overturn the presidential election, which, of course, Joe Biden had won by more than 7 million votes, 306 to 232 in the Electoral College.”

“Speaker Johnson refuses to put it up. He’s consistently refused to put it up," he complained.

Raskin also said there should be "nothing controversial" about the plaque and adminished, "people should stop trying to rewrite the history of what happened on January 6.”

Much like the Democrats' current temper tantrum, what happened on January 6 was not an attempt to overthrow the country but an expression of frustration over what they saw at the time as an unfair election.

Overblown rhetoric

Raskin quoted Republicans who said negative things about the crowd's actions at the Capitol just after it happened.

Some of those were based on misinformation, like the accusation that five people died because of the rioters. In fact, the only one who died during the breach was one of the tresspassers, shot by Capitol Police.

The plaque is clearly an attempt to blame one party for the riot, and of course Johnson doesn't want to play into that kind of accusatory rhetoric.

A lot of Republicans spoke out strongly at the time against the actions of the January 6 protesters who breached the Capitol.

It wasn't a great moment for sure, but it was also not a violent overthrow or even an attempt at one.

Congress should just repeal the law that mandates posting the plaque and be done with it.