Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. Has it happened to the Democrats yet? I think so, yes. I think so.
“Whistleblower” is already being enrolled in the lexicon of political disasters, and not just on account of pictures of the priapic Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky and featuring a rude joke about “whistleblowers” (“You know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow”).
No, “whistleblower” has entered the joke book of American politics because of the wild discrepancy between aspiration and reality that it represents.
Just last week, an all-points bulletin was blaring from the Get Trump media and the assorted fantasists in the Democratic Party. “Now we’ve got him, lads. Impeachment is just around the corner.” The New York Times said so. So did CNN and MSNBC. So did Nancy Pelosi, soon-to-be-former speaker of the House. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was so certain of it that he thought he could get away with pretending to read the transcript of Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president while actually just making stuff up.
Really. There he was, piece of paper in hand, addressing the House Intelligence Committee (and millions of viewers at home), exuding his signature “the-President-is-not-above-the-law-deer-in-the-headlights-automaton” countenance. The whole thing, Schiff said, was a “mafia-like shakedown.”
“I want you,” he pretended to read, “to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it, on this and on that. I’m going to put you in touch with people, not just any people, I’m going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.”
When it was pointed out that Donald Trump said none of that, Schiff replied that his words—his lies—were a “parody.” Oh.
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See Also:
(1) Impeachment Depravity: ‘Inquiry’ Proves Democrats Know They Can’t Win
(2) ‘It doesn’t matter’: Pelosi not concerned if Democrats lose majority over impeachment
(3) Susan Rice blasts Trump over secure server, asked if Obama ever used similar system
(4) State Department stepped up Hillary Clinton email probe beginning in August: report
