Fifteen Hundred Hours to Cut Hair, and No Requirement at All to Ask a Question
Question: How stupid can a person be and still be elected to the United States Senate from Missouri? Answer: Stupider than Eric Schmitt, and that is the interesting part, because he is not stupid. The interesting part is that nothing in the law required him to be anything at all. On Tuesday, September 29, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters” (Senate Judiciary Committee, 2026). A hearing that names its conclusion in the title is not an inquiry, and this one proceeded accordingly. Missouri’s junior senator spent his question time building an accusation of perjury against the former special counsel, and the accusation collapsed in public, on the record, within the same seven minutes in which it was made. ...