THE CLOWN SHOW CONGRESS

I thought it was very bad when Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives. Thanks to the clown show put on yesterday (2/27) by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), I’m rethinking that.

The new chairman of the House Oversight Committee scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, with President Trump’s former personal lawyer the only witness, to give the Lying Swine something to cover instead of the president’s historic meeting with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.

The Enemedia obliged. CNN and MSNBC provided near gavel to gavel coverage, the rest of the MSM devoted more attention to the hearing than to progress toward peace with North Korea.

It was ludicrous to think Michael Cohen – who shortly will begin serving three years in prison for crimes that have nothing to do with Trump – would have some “bombshell” to reveal to the Committee he didn’t tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller or the Southern District of New York.

But this was an opportunity for Democrats to throw brown stuff at the president, hoping some of it would stick.

Things didn’t go according to plan. The Dems’ hangover this morning was the groggy realization that Cohen put the stake through the heart of multiple anti-Trump fantasies.

He has no evidence of “collusion” with Russia. Trump never told him to lie. He’d never strike Melania. Once Trump was elected, his primary concern was helping the country (he wasn’t in it for the money).

There really was only one question to which Cohen could give an answer that mattered.

“ASK HIM ABOUT PRAGUE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD” tweeted obnoxious MSNBC journo Chris Hayes.

No, he’s never been to Prague, Cohen answered when Rep. Ralph Norman finally did ask him about it, thus blowing a hole a mile wide in the Steele dossier, and breaking Hayes’ heart.

Cohen’s testimony “would seem to drive a stake in a story that has refused to die,” said NBC reporter Ken Dilanian.

“Do Russiagate peddlers get how bad this had gone?” asked Aaron Mate, a reporter for the far left wing mag The Nation.

But Atlantic reporter Natasha Bertrand still holds out hope. So Cohen was never in Prague. But maybe he lent his cell phone to someone who did go there.

Hope springs eternal in moonbat breasts. I can’t wait to hear what Natasha will have to say after Mueller exonerates Trump. Assuming she doesn’t have a nervous breakdown, and just howls at the moon.

Cohen repeatedly contradicted himself, was caught in another lie (about wanting a White House job), confessed (inadvertently?) to failing to register as a foreign agent, a crime he has not (yet) been charged with.

He’d paid women to sign non-disclosure agreements in the past, Cohen said, dousing speculation a crime was committed when Stormy Daniels was paid to sign an NDA.

Cummings and Adam Schiff prepped him on his testimony, Cohen acknowledged. (The expression on the face of his lawyer, Lanny Davis, when Cohen admitted this was priceless.)

Cohen either is an idiot of galactic proportions, or an agent provocateur who is trying to make Democrats look bad.

I’m inclined to go with Option #1. But some analysts I respect lean toward #2.

“Anyone still think Cohen’s testimony isn’t a trap for Democrats?” asked Dawson S. Field.

Cohen had the presence of mind to remind Cummings to make a formal request for the tapes Cohen says he has on Trump and other clients. Methinks the tapes won’t show what Democrats want to hear.

“Can you see how much damage Cohen is doing to Dems and how little he is doing to Trump?” asked Clandestine Rosenstein. “Who does Cohen REALLY work for?”

There is a bit of evidence – from of all places, Mother Jones magazine – that Cohen was part of a sting against billionaire Franklin Haney who got rich on government contracts, and Qatar. But Mother Jones had no idea what they’d uncovered.

Cummings concluded the clown show with a long, rambling monologue that demonstrated other Democrats are nearly as stupid as Alexandria Occasional Cortex.

Democrat control of the House guarantees no worthwhile legislation will pass in this Congress. That’s not good. But GOP control of the Senate, and Trump’s veto, also guarantees no really bad legislation will pass, either.

Democrat control of the House provides Trump with wonderful foils such as Cummings, AOC, Schiffless, Fats Nadler to play off against.

Voters rejected Republicans in the midterms mostly because they thought, correctly, the GOP Congress hadn’t done much, believed Democrats when they promised to reach across party lines to get things done.

We knew the Dems were lying, but millions of Americans didn’t. Clown shows like Wednesday’s, and Fats Nadler’s clumsy attempt to set a perjury trap for Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker two weeks before are likely to continue, and will clarify many minds.

And we will be treated on almost a daily basis to the soap opera of how Pelosi Galore tries to hold together a caucus that includes the Airhead of Congress and her two Moslem terrorist lady friends, against Dems in swing districts who aren’t completely insane.

I find it weird so many Democrats are showing us who they really are. (Can you believe Virginia’s Governor Coonman’s wife, Pam Northam,  just handed raw cotton to black students touring the governor’s mansion and asked them to imagine being slaves?)

Most Americans wouldn’t see what Democrats really are if they didn’t have power to abuse.

If voters in 2020 view Democrats not just as obstructionists, but as corrupt wackos who hate America and kill babies, the House will swing back to Republicans by  bigger margins than it went to Democrats in 2018.

A fringe benefit for the president is Uniparty RINOs who lost last year almost certainly will be replaced in 2020 by Trump supporters.

The president fought hard to hold the House last year. But I doubt he minds terribly that Paul Ryan isn’t Speaker any longer.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration.