I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace;
that two are called a law firm; and that three or more become a Congress

              — John Adams

I have what is known in the trade as a “resting bitch face.” It has both its drawbacks and its perks. The drawback is I am continually asked if everything’s “okay”. The perk includes panhandlers realizing as I walk down the street that bugging me for that spare change (“yeah, here’s a buck I was about to throw in the trash”) is not a good idea. Flyboy and Football Savant Offspring have long come to terms with it. It may prove useful for the Noodle as she gets older in that just LOOKING at her may give her pause before she asks for that cookie before dinner.

That being said, this week resulted in my wanting to tear off said resting bitch face, just as a distraction from what I was being subjected to by the Clown Car Chairmen of the United States House of Representatives and their ringmaster, Nancy Pelousy (who, if she gets one more facelift, is going to be sporting a grey goatee).

This whole whistleblower thing is the fact that the (nut)House is still smarting over the fact that they haven’t gotten to have their own Christine Ballsey-Fraud type hearing. After all, they’ve still been pretty much relegated to C-SPAN as their impeachment dreams were slowly being fajita’d by the witnesses they themselves paraded to the nation in a “we got him NOW” attempt at gotcha legislating. I mean look at Mueller, for crying out loud – they could have gotten more coherent and relevant testimony if they’d stuck a microphone in front of a Jello Pudding Cup. Former ICE Director Homan basically made their socialist heroine and America’s Favorite Commie Sandy from the Bronx look like the petulant ignorant drama queen we’ve all known her to be.  I mean seriously?  The economic expert had no idea how to rap the gavel. The piece d’resistance, though was Corey Lewandowski. I find it odd that the same people who strutted around after Pete “The Smirk” Strzok testified were reduced to whiny tweens when Corey pulled a figurative chimp moment and threw the feces back at the audience.

There are too many similarities between the emergence of the whistleblower and Ballsey-Fraud (aka “the Perjurer”). In both cases, it appears that members of Congress had notice of the allegations being made well in advance of the “surprise!” moment they announced on TV.  Feinstein held the Perjurer’s letter back until after the hearings were completed on Justice Kavanaugh.  Of course, as I’ve written before, in her case, Dianne Dumdum didn’t factor in that Grassley would reopen the hearings – what she was counting on is the Democrat Stenographers Network to simply report night after night on the allegations.  Grassley thwarted her plan and the rest became the nearest thing to the Ringling Bros. Washington has seen since the dancing ponies left town.  Televised nationally!  Protests!  Instagram!  Alyssa Milano and her laughable “glare” and protest sign aimed at Kavanaugh’s back as he was testifying (until a security guard embarrassed her ass on national TV and told he to put the damn sign down or she was going to be ejected).  In the end, over 70% of the nation believed Kavanaugh.

Well, Nancy and the House want THEIR turn.  Sure Mueller was given national exposure but OMG folks – that testimony should have come with a warning not to listen to it if you were operating heavy machinery or driving a car.  So, how to put it all out there…..Of course.  Time to pull the trigger on the I word!  Unfortunately, I think they KNOW in their heart of hearts that Volume II of the Mueller Report was written by one of the most ethically challenged individuals ever to pass a bar exam – Andrew Weissman (and that’s saying something since Michael Avenatti still lurks on the national stage).  Weissman has to be more than a little concerned that Sidney Powell, the forthright appellate attorney who held him up to national scrutiny in her book “Licensed to Lie” (and if you haven’t read it – DO.  Legal experience helpful but not necessary to understand even the finer points) has now joined the Michael Flynn legal team.

That aside, the House knows they really aren’t going to get the Big “I” with either collusion or obstruction and they sure aren’t going to get that hearing that becomes “must see TV”.  To add more to their woes, it’s announced by Durham’s investigation team that they are looking into the abuse of power by the DOJ and FBI and the origins of the whole Russian collusion fairy tale that lookee here – UKRAINE apparently was working overtime trying help the CLINTON campaign get dirt on Donald Trump in the form of attacking Paul Manafort.

If that isn’t bad enough for the Dems, their frontrunner, Joe the Schmoe Biden apparently was stupid enough to get himself on camera boasting about what a tough guy he was with Ukraine – threatening them with withholding a billion in taxpayer money if a prosecutor who was about to interview his son was fired.  And I am going to do something in my life that I have never done before – I’m going to hold Obama blameless.  I think he had NO idea Biden was going to do this.  When Biden said “call him”, he was pulling the trigger on the threat all bullies do – “If you don’t believe me, just ask so and so.”  I can only imagine what would have happened if someone in that meeting said “please telephone the President and confirm.”

Enter their savior.  The Whistleblower (aka the Sneak).  Like the Perjurer, the Sneak appears to have gone to someone (*cough* Shifty McPencilneck *cough*) in Congress to voice their complaints.  The trouble is they don’t have first-hand knowledge so they cannot enjoy the protections that are afforded WB’s.  No problem.  Just change the rules.  Secretly adjust the WB qualifications to include second and third-hand information – I don’t know about you but where I come from, we have a name for this – we call it gossip,  With protections for the sneak in place, the complaint can now be officially “filed”, having been reviewed and polished.  And of course, said complaint was leaked to the press, right at the moment the President was addressing the U.N.; you know, for maximum embarrassment, via the Congress, like the letter from the Perjurer.  The stenographers ran with it,  Immediately the Congress, because they NEVER learn from previous mistakes, immediately demanded the transcript of the referenced telephone call.  And the complaint.  Which Schifty could have recited from memory and who probably had a copy of the finished product in a desk drawer.

They ha assumed the President would fight tooth and nail to keep the transcript and complaint secret, allowing them frequent television appearances and speculation.  But, like Chuck Grassley before him, Trump said “let them see the transcript.  And review the complaint and release it later.”  As it turns out, the transcript did not bear witness to the allegations of the complaint.  In fact it was so FAR off the mark that CNN have to skip over five minutes of the transcript through the use of ellipsis to connect point A to point B.  Pelosi announces an “impeachment inquiry” that skips over the important step of getting a floor vote of the House and there it is folks — the national hearing that thinks will stop people in their tracks.  It’s Schifty’s Emmy moment.  Unfortunately, Shifty hadn’t counted on the actual transcript being released and failed to rewrite his opening remarks and basically made himself look like an idiot by literally “making up” the nature and content of the phone call.  When finally called on it, he claimed it was “parody.”  Sure it was, Shifty.   Like that irrefutable evidence of collusion you’ve seen.  Meanwhile, the fake stories supporting Biden are being proffered – like the stories of Ramirez and Swetnick.  Biden’s son was investigated and cleared (did’t happen); the entire world wanted that prosecutor fired because he was crooked (then why didn’t Biden boast about it at the time and why didn’t the world react).

Not to  outdone, the Ringmaster is now on TV saying that the White House was trying to hide the Transcript by moving it to a secure location.  Uh, Nancy?  They released it.  And of course, she just can’t resist making herself look like a fool by using her whip on that poor dead horse in the center ring…….It was RUSSIA.