81 and It's On

Donald Trump will have to give up being President in peace for Lent.  House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has asked for documents from 81 individuals and entities related to Trump's business interests, and the White House is already calling it a fishing expedition.  In fact, Nadler is only doing in 2019 what the House Republican majority should have been doing in 2017 and 2018 - looking at suspicious, alert-causing behavior that may or may not lead to evidence of wrongdoing and obstruction of justice.  In other words, congressional oversight.

Nadler, in other words, is making up for lost time.  This means that he's going to have to do four years' worth of oversight in two years' time, and if he doesn't find anything explosive - and maybe even if he does find something explosive - it's going to look like an excessive, vindictive campaign against Trump by the Democrats . . . that is, a witch hunt.  The Democrats can inoculate themselves from such charges if they do this right.  All Nadler has to say is, "We're making up for lost time."

And then they have to talk about health care.