Who Wants Ice Cream? 🍦

The idea that a commission or investigation must be bipartisan or voters won't take it seriously exists in DC and vanishes once you step outside of it.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 27, 2021

But the pundits all live in the Beltway, or at least the BosWash, and regard the appearance of bi-partisanship as the highest good and the holy grail of Washington governance, because it is as rarely seen as the snark (hunting of). And the commission/investigation/what have you would never get any respect because the sniping about it being "partisan" would dominate the discussions/news reporting.

So we're stuck chasing chimeras and unicorns, forever.

American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, But It’s Getting There

My new Letter from Washington is up ⁦@NewYorker⁩: https://t.co/hj2lm4e9eR

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) May 27, 2021

See?  Now if there is a proper investigation at the Congressional level, it won't be one "we" agreed on, so what's the point?  The American Experiment is clearly over.  Right?  I mean, clearly. It was so fragile and harum-sacrum, all it took was one filibuster to do it in.

Nothing left to do now but get ice cream. Who wants ice cream?