The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

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The final hearing of the January 6^th Select Committee is scheduled for today, the last installment of the series before turning it over to the next Select Committee, probably Jim Jordan’s unbiased handpicked kangaroo court, this one to investigate the investigators who will announce the winners of their choice for criminal charges.  I think (spoiler alert!) we can expect Donald to be their first pick.  So much winning for the guy he’s probably sick of winning.

Whether the Department of Justice prosecutes based on this recommendation remains to be seen.  But irate MAGA Congressmen are already making it clear to the Department that a Select Committee will be formed to investigate Merrick Garland and his G-men.  Clear your calendar, Mr. Garland, the wannabe Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy made clear, same guy that pointed the finger at Trump after the insurrection that scared him but who went to Mar-a-Lago shortly after to beg forgiveness from the soon-to-be-impeached President-in-Exile.  The hunger for power can make a man grovel.  Lord only knows what else Kevin would do for the scepter. So much for profiles in courage in this era.

Who needs Netflix serials when you got this kind of tragi-comic material on everything from the New York Times to Twitter? Not great for managing a country, maybe, but hey, It’s Entertainment and after all, we voted for a reality TV show huckster so let’s play this out, see who’s Fired! Course, we need to update the Select Committee panel shows, don’tcha think?  Something a bit fresher, something to appeal to the Gen X’ers, maybe think out of the box.  Or the Congress.  Take it to the street, why not?  Studio audiences in Poughkeepsie and Mankato, load up the Truth Bus and journey to the hinterlands.  Between witnesses, let’s have some song and dance, something lively, patriotic of course, move those booties!  To the right, hopefully.

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We’re about a year and a half away from an election that will, no doubt about it, define where this country is headed for a very long time. Trump. Or not Trump. That is the question. For the GOP it’s an existential question. If Trump is soundly beaten, they can start writing the memoirs of the Republican Party, maybe try to salvage some small shred of lost pride when in truth they sold their collective souls to the man who would be king, kowtowed to a bully and a know-nothing, paid umbrage to a demagogue who promoted conspiracy theories and made a mockery of truth and facts. If Trump wins, they can continue to play the sycophants, lapdogs to a man who owes allegiance only to himself. Well played, gentlemen, well played.

If the term ‘constitutional crisis’ has been over-stated this past year, let me state it once more. We’re in a constitutional crisis. No need to recap the myriad ways this President has flouted the balance of power between the 3 branches of government. This week he sicced the Attorney General on the FBI and the CIA, while accusing their previous heads of treason without evidence. This from the guy who refuses to accept any evidence the Russians tampered with the last election. Putin told him they didn’t, that was plenty for Trump, better to go after the investigators. Better to stonewall the investigative committees. Better to accuse the accusers.

Not saying this isn’t an expedient tactic. A trapped animal will chew its leg off to escape the clamped jaws. Ugly stuff, politics. Uglier yet with a man who usually hires out his dirty work but only has the courage of name calling from a distance. But now we’re treated to accusing the intelligence community of this country of ‘spying’. Spying on Trump’s campaign committee. Sure they were offering deals to Russia to help Donald get his hotel in Moscow, sure they were playing fast and loose with the Ukrainians, of course they were in contact with WikiLeaks. Nothing to worry about there…

We’ve investigated this before. We’ve investigated Benghazi how many times? We spent years on Whitewater. Now we have the Attorney General, the man in charge of the FBI, investigating ‘spying’. Kind of a charged word, spying, to refer to an FISA authorized investigation. If you hang a cloud of suspicion over our federal law enforcement, if you call the news media the enemy of the people, if you think you won the last election’s popular votes because illegals voted, if you claim that there was no obstruction and no collusion and complete exoneration by Mueller’s spying, tell me why I should think if Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he’ll concede and go peacefully into his Tower.

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