Those Republicans and Democrats! Those Democrats and Republicans! They fight like cats and dogs! It makes you want to throw up your hands in disgust, amirite?
That’s the way such reliable purveyors of “fake news” as the New York Times (“Hearing for FBI Agent Devolves Into Debacle”) and the Washington Post (“Shouting, bickering, and other theatrics dominate hearings with FBI’s Strzok”) played the story, though “Hysterical Republicans try to tear out FBI agent’s heart” would have been far more accurate.
FBI agent Peter Strzok was certainly lazy and self-indulgent to engage in snickering, self-righteous, anti-Trump emails with his FBI girlfriend while using his own FBI account, but at the same time he performed his official duties in an entirely appropriate manner. That is the truth, and the truth is, Republicans hate the truth, because it tells them what they don’t want to hear. And so they screamed and ranted, as they have done now for decades whenever they don’t get whatever it is they want, like two-year-olds deprived of lollypops. Because for Republicans, that is what getting elected to Congress means: It means you get to get whatever you want and scream your head off if you don’t—it means that you get to act like a two-year-old, which is what they do, over and over again.
Fortunately, the WashPost’s Paul Waldman makes these same points in more measured terms: “The Peter Strzok fiasco wrecks the GOP’s bogus conspiracy theory”. I would only add that this only happens because House Speaker Paul Ryan, aka “Lyin’ Paulie Ryan” lacks the nerve to tell Republicans to stop acting like two-year-olds.
