Today In Congress

There is absolutely no political advantage to be gained, in the Congress or in the country, by defending the commission idea on the basis of "bipartisanship." Nobody fcking cares.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 19, 2021

Truer than you know, because the question is raised: who is watching this on C-SPAN right now? Anybody? Bueller? Ferris Bueller?

Steny Hoyer just asked what if GWB said we shouldn't have a 9/11 commission. He also said that the W administration bore no responsibility for those attacks. Bush fought that commission for months and refused to testify. This is bipartisanship fetishism at its worst.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 19, 2021

Yup, but it's for the pundits and Congressional Correspondents and their editors who will decide what clips play on the TeeVee machine tonight (or right now, actually, as I type). For every MTG:

Bag of nuts. https://t.co/ikSloOFi6N

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 19, 2021

Who is not just a bag of nuts but batshit insane, the Dems want a Steny Hoyer or somebody else playing the adult. Because Pelosi gave McCarthy almost everything he wanted in this commission and, as usual, the GOP is trying to kill it in the cradle anyway. Stop me if you've heard this one before; or if you think this is where you came in to this movie. Or if you think you've seen this movie before. You have; right down to the journalists obsessing over "bi-partisanship" and the pundits decrying it as a shibboleth and a canard, and proclaiming anathema on the other side.

Jesus, can the Democrats get someone up who hasn't wandered in from the petrified forest to maunder on about the good old days of bipartisan compromise?? Just one. Anybody?

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 19, 2021

Asked and answered; please see the foregoing for reference.

Nutty Greene is up and raving about BLM/Antifa riots. The House debate has now sunken into middle earth, never to return. "The media is going to use this to smear Trump and Trump supporters..."

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 19, 2021

I would actually pay money to see that clip on MTP this weekend. Even Chuck Todd is now aroused from his torpor enough to call (albeit politely) bullshit on this kind of nonsense. Sometimes it's good to know what the nutjobs are saying, know what I mean? Besides, we get to have fun with stuff like this:

Look, nobody said they were SMART violent treasonous assholes. https://t.co/QVWlQtMWyA

— NoLongerPurelyCivilHat (@Popehat) May 19, 2021

And while I don't think Kai Ryssdal is representative of the "Silent Majority" (weren't they supposed to save Trump in November?), I think his sentiments are the most widely shared on this subject:

It's honestly stunning that there's not going to be a Congressional investigation into...an attack on the Congress.

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) May 19, 2021

Which is why I still think this bill passes both houses and heads to the President's desk. Then again, what do I know?