Watergate, Now This, and Off Topic Again

Summer before I began my undergraduate years, I spent every day on the family room floor not taking my eyes off the Watergate hearings on television. They introduced me to Barbara Jordan and inspired me to pursue journalism.

So this morning the heartbreaking testimony of the four Capital police officers. Really I cried at what they endured. (And as a progressive Texas Democrat, called Adam Kinzinger’s office, actually phoned, to thank him, a conservative Illinois Republican. Policy differences are fair, but the guy at least is honest and decent, and he’s probably got a lot of smashing going on from politicians, and probably no small number of just plain angry and bitter people, who most definitely are neither honest nor decent.)

The moral rot, and probably the intentions, planning, and money behind it, of January 6, really needs to see light of day. There is a tool called subpoena.

I hope our legal system will make good what it can and that the people who did that damage will deal with legal consequences. And that the truth will win.