The Schloss-Blog has not got its usual slew of items this week, but it does have a peek at how investigations of investigations can go awry and just give rise to more. The problem is why they're done.
Republicans complain about weaponization of investigations while they do the same thing and shrug off the investigations that have led to four indictments of a certain former president...
...of the United States of America.
While Republicans continue on their fruitless investigative paths of Joe Biden, Alvin Bragg and now Fani Willis, they gripe in hindsight that Hillary was never punished.
For anything.
Actually, she is one of the most-investigated politicians.
Ever.
The Benghazi attack was investigated 10 times, including by the Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. It concluded that the terrorist attack there, which resulted in four American deaths, including that of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, was "preventable."
Of course, that 2012 attack happened on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's watch. Six different House committees had Republican-majority members deliver a report damning to Clinton and the Obama Administration. It claimed that they altered talking points and delivered conclusions that were misleading and incomplete in their report on the attack.
In other words, the Republicans said the Democrats said the attack was not as bad there as it actually was.
Four Americans were killed, including the ambassador. That's pretty bad and was never denied. That report, by the way, according to Democrats on the committee, was written with no Democratic input.
In the end though, the Republican-majority House Intelligence Committee concluded that "there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration."
As to Hillary's email controversy, while she was accused of deleting 33,000 emails (see Trump, Donald, campaign appeal to Russia to find them), she was never found to have committed anything egregious, even by Republican investigators. DOJ's investigation found nothing to prosecute about her using a private email server.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump waves classified documents around at his golf clubs and stashes them all over Mar a Lago and Republicans complain the investigation and subsequent indictment over that is unfair and biased.
So, while Republican investigations of Hillary produced nothing to see nor prosecute, they still press ahead now with investigations of the what they call the "criminal" Biden family.
Yeah, MS-13 is all over the Cabinet. And don't forget, in your neighborhood.
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Been watching "And Just Like That," the "Sex & the City" sequel?
It's been interesting to see what happened to our sexy, jump-into-bed-with-whoever characters.
Sort of.
They killed off Big. Supposedly, he was a sexual predator (isn't that what the show's about?). No, he allegedly really was, and not just a lech on the set either.
And after he went to Paris and saved Carrie too. Hmmph!
Anyway, all four of the principal characters have undergone life changes and season two just ended with Sam (Kim Cattrall) making a cameo appearance at last.
Call it a cameo of a cameo, for as long as she was on screen.
So, is there any truth to the rumors that she and Sarah Jessica Parker had a falling out and that's why Cattrall didn't come back full time for the sequel at all?
Two movies and a financial dispute over salaries later, Cattrall is missing from the small-screen renewal, even though both are saying there's no bad blood.
If you believe that, then why isn't Cattrall in the show?
And just like that, no sex and the city for her.
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Hope my friends and relatives out east listened to me Sunday morning on Radio Free Phoenix, a rare mid-morning appearance for me subbing for Joe Catanzaro.
Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night, as always, on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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