re: #29 Targetpractice

I’ve seen more than one pundit tweet that this hearing should have happened months ago, when the Report was still fresh in the minds of the public and national attention was upon its findings. Yet it didn’t happen because senior Dems worried if they were forced to subpoena Mueller, he’d either refuse to show up or he would show up but be totally uncooperative. Well, they finally did subpoena him and (surprise, surprise) the Bob Mueller who showed up seemed to radiate exasperation with the spectacle he was put through. Whatever value there was in this hearing was severely compromised by weeks of dithering and foot-dragging.

And that’s it right there. Why do anything when Democrats are going to go after Democrats and Republicans are going to go after Democrats.

It took so long because Mueller didn’t want to do the meeting in public. And dragging the head of the investigation in would have been a disaster.