Taking Garland Down

It's been a year since the January 6 insurrection, and with an ongoing Justice Department investigation of what happened that day,  Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke yesterday in what was billed as a major speech.   Garland declared that the investigation is being pursued vigorously and that all participants in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, from the actual attackers to those who planned the attack, will face justice.  

"The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last," Garland said in his speech. "The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law - whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.  We will follow the facts wherever they lead."

In other words, nothing new to bother with.

Merrick Garland is a man of integrity, but his slow, lethargic process and his efforts to appear nonpolitical in this case suggest that President Biden misjudged his man when he chose the former would-be Supreme Court justice to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer.  His diligence has to be speeded up if he wants to get results.  Also, his investigation seems focused more on the attack on the Capitol than on the efforts to overturn the election before the attack.  It's easy to see why the PBS NewsHour's nightly news report failed to even mention the speech last night.

I can't believe how many people still think the election was stolen and how many Republicans are downplaying the investigation and getting away with rigging the system for 2024 and beyond.  Have Republicans lost their minds? COVID is surging and our democracy is in a tailspin, and everything seems to be getting worse.  Now I'm really angry . . ..