Democratic Senator says Russia probe could now include cover-up
"The Pony Joke. “Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. 'The pony joke?' Meese replied. 'Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times.'” “The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities – one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist – their parents took them to a psychiatrist.” “First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. 'What's the matter?' the psychiatrist asked, baffled. 'Don't you want to play with any of the toys?' 'Yes,' the little boy bawled, 'but if I did I'd only break them.'” “Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. 'What do you think you're doing?' the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. 'With all this manure,' the little boy replied, beaming, 'there must be a pony in here somewhere!'” The Pony Joke Obsessions like this usually end badly for those convinced by the obsessed to hop on and start digging. The obsessed may not mind being coated in horse shit, but the rest will once it is clear there is no "pony" in here. It is almost impossible for the facts to look anything like the hugely inflated "pony" they believe to be under the manure pile. Instead after months of digging, they will end up with a Geraldo Rivera moment. The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults Perhaps the Dems can push this beyond the 2018 election before it implodes. Even less likely, they will be able to push this beyond the 2020 elections, and make Presidential hay out of it. More likely, they will find a small amount of trash in the corner of the "vault," and the public will drop them 20 points. The Dems are already underwater in state, and local elections, outside of a tiny handful of solid Blue state, and they have lost more than 1,000 seats nationwide since the election of Obama. This is just likely to accelerate this process. We need two responsible parties in our system, today neither the establishment/progressive Democratic Party, or establishment/progressive Republican party fit this requirement. Let's hope we are entering a political nadir, I'd hate to think we have further to fall.
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