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What is an exercise in futility? Try this one, a headline out yesterday afternoon:
As Gomer Pyle would have so succinctly put it all those years ago: Well, goooollllly! Who would have thought that the department headed by one Merrick Garland, the Department known by the title it has earned over the last three years, the Department of [In]Justice, would decline to prosecute the — wait for it!— head of said department.
Whatever one’s political leanings might be, and whatever the reasons for those convictions, one must have at least some question about whether all this “sound and fury” didn’t just — with apologies to the Bard — “signify nothing.”
Here is the article should you wish to finish up your week on a querulous note, as this is just one more of many times over the recent years when Congress has stamped its little feet to no avail whatsoever. Does it seem that way to you, or am I not giving our Congresscritters enough credit for their many “accomplishments”?
God Bless America!
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I'm shocked.
Shocked, I say!
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This is all because, as we know, no one is above the law!
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Nobody thought they would do anything. That's why the House needs to invoke the form of contempt where they can arrest and lock up Garland on their own.
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I wonder if Congress can jail him for contempt until the DoJ files charges.
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Yes, they can, if they vote for... "direct contempt" or whatever it's called.
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