re: #222 Sir John Barron

Sounds like it’s time for another BENGHAZI hearing.

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today’s electoral-vote.com:

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is not a one-trick pony. After starring in the “Impeachment of Donald Trump” show, he is back in the news again. He wants to create a commission to study why the country was unprepared for COVID-19. His model is the commissions that looked into Pearl Harbor and 9/11, so we can learn from the mistakes that were made.

Of course, Schiff already knows the answer: Donald Trump pooh-poohed the whole thing because he felt talking about it and taking action might hurt his reelection prospects. Mix in a bit of the Republican philosophy of “Government is not the solution; government is the problem” and it doesn’t take a blue-ribbon commission to figure out what happened.

But Schiff is not interested in getting the answer he already knows. He is interested in pointing out to the voters that Donald Trump is the problem. If the Senate has to agree to the commission, it won’t happen, but if the House creates it on its own, it could. It could be staffed with Democrats, plus some well-known never-Trump Republicans, plus Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) to make it look bipartisan. But make no mistake. It is not about finding out the “elusive truth.” It is more about the old game of pinning the tail on the elephant. (V)