It just took four
So, after sitting toadlike for many months, the House has suddenly voted 400-something to 1 to release the Epstein Files. After taking a cowardly vow of silence on the issue, the Senate has now followed suit, unanimously.
The question is why. Why this sudden shift toward the light?
Well, Trump did say he wouldn’t have them eaten by wolves if they voted for this bill. But obviously he did so only to save face, knowing that the bill would now pass. Given his desperation to conceal the files, there can be absolutely no question that they contain material which shows Trump in a bad light, whether criminal or merely disgusting, like all his other crimes and peccadillos. Meanwhile, we would all be wise to expect the so-called Justice Department to delay, disrupt, and redact, keeping the files from being truly public.
But here’s the point. It took just four. Four people among the 400-plus, to change the narrative from a snowball’s chance in Hades to a snowstorm. Why in the name of democracy did it take so long to find even four? How whipped and shriveled have the Republicans in Congress become, to have let this lawless administration get away with murder, month after month?
(And yes, that’s a figure of speech but it is also the literal truth as Trump plays God, bombing small boats in international waters, killing everyone on board. Whoever they are, fishermen or drug couriers or just folks, it doesn’t matter: we are not allowed to execute them summarily.)