Disappointment

 It's Understatement Thursday (not related to Dominion Day, have a good one, Canada), and I'm feeling let down.  

If a bunch of violent idiots in costume broke into my house, beat up the staff, shat on the floor, stole my stuff and livestreamed themselves doing it, I don't know if I would wait six months for the problem to resolve itself.  I would -- well, I wouldn't break the law as they did, but I wouldn't put on oven mitts, either.  "NANCY PELOSI SIGNALS HARD LINE ON FORMATION OF 6 JANUARY SELECT COMMITTEE" is the headline in today's Guardian, and even allowing for British understatement I just don't see it.  As expected, one of her eight appointees was Liz Cheney just for being hated by Trump.  The Democrats are chairman Bennie Thompson (MS), Zoe Lofgren (CA), Jamie Raskin (MD), Adam Schiff (CA), Elaine Luria (VA), Stephanie Murray (FL) and Pete Aguilar (CA).  I was hoping for Ayanna Pressley (MA), Steve Cohen (TN),  Katie Porter (CA), Hakeem Jeffries (NY), Bill Pascrell or Tom Malinowski (both NJ) and Stacey Plaskett (VI).  Kevin McCarthy has promised ANATHEMA! for any Republican who agrees to serve and Pelosi can veto any Trumpanzee asshole he appoints, so this could take another six months.  But after all, it's not Benghazi. 

I'm disappointed that it was Allen Weisselberg who left the courtroom in handcuffs instead of his boss or boss-spawn, but he made his bed.  Now maybe he'll make a deal, too, on the fifteen charges of tax fraud he faces.  Or he'll get a visit from someone who will drop hints about Roman emperors.

C-SPAN announced the disappointing results of an informal poll of historians who decided Trump was not the worst president in history.  Who was worse?  According to the Washington Post, "Franklin 'Bleeding Kansas' Pierce, Andrew 'First To Be Impeached' Johnson and James 'Failed To Stop the Civil War' Buchanan."  I thought "Russian puppet who incited a mob to overthrow the government" would have blown them away but historians have to take the long view.  Don't they?  

I believe all sensible people were disappointed when Bill Cosby's rape conviction was overturned because of (perhaps deliberately) bad actions by then-prosecutor-later-Trump-lawyer Bruce Castor.  Especially the fifty or more women whose accusations never reached the courts.  I was also disappointed -- make that disgusted -- when his ride home in a white SUV (not a Bronco) was breathlessly traced by the cable "news" like OJ in reverse.  Have you no decency at long last, MSNBC?  I know he made a lot of money for the network but a helicopter?  And if you're not disappointed enough, lawyers for Harvey Weinstein think their client will soon be free, too.  Isn't that special.

The Supreme Court upheld dark money and crippled voting.  Move along, nothing to see here.

Trump went all the way to Texas to brag about passing a dementia test in 2018 by remembering five words.  He said his doctors thought it was ''amazing," which might actually be true.  Not disappointing at all.  Funny.  You historians want to take another run at that survey?