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What action can the House Minority Leader take? He can submit an ethics complaint, he can leak stuff, and he can jump them in the men’s room and give them a wedgy. Maybe he did all that. Maybe not. The ethics committee, for that matter, rarely does anything but whitewash, and giving Nadler a wedgy is probably more of a punishment for the wedge-or than the recipient. But his oratory is part of the Congressional Record for 2020, and can be quoted in campaign ads and literature. And it was good oratory.
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Yep, cuz when it comes down to it, it’s the flowery bloviation instead of ACTIONS that that show the electorate “Here’s how we’re keeping govt responsible to YOU” that *really* matter. SMH.
Flowery bloviations often do lead to actions. Would England have stood firm without Churchill’s rhetoric? Would the Union have continued fighting without Lincoln’s? Sometimes powerful rhetoric accomplishes nothing, but without it, nothing ever gets accomplished. We’re in a cold CW2, it’s been said. Very well. I’d rather have the powerful rhetoric than be without it in a CW2, cold or otherwise. The other side can’t even manage humor, let alone rhetoric. Would you rather have Adam Schiff putting fire in your belly? “Forward! Cliff? That’s no cliff! Forwaaaaaaaaaar*splat*!”