The January 6th Committee Should Be Godfather IV.

Remember that great scene in Godfather II when Pantangeli gets up in front of a Congressional committee and recants his testimony about Michael Corleone because “the FBI told me to say this, the FBI told me to say that?”

Today’s Select Committee hearing will be that same scene done over for the 50% of Americans who, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, have been following the hearings over the last several months.

The difference, of course, between the Hollywood version and the D.C. version is that the former had Al Pacino playing the Godfather, the current version playing on CNN and elsewhere has Donald Trump (a.k.a. Orange Shithead or OS) playing himself.

What are these shitheads from the Three Percenters or the Proud Boys going to say that we don’t already know? We know they came to D.C. because Trump wanted them to show up. We know they dressed in their combat fatigues and waved their MAGA flags because that’s the S.O.P of all those so-called militia groups.

In that regard, incidentally, you might at some point want to read a brief but brilliant book, The Pine Barrens, by John McPhee. The book was published in 1968 but it’s particularly relevant now, because it’s partially based on a diary kept by the head of the local militia in a now-abandoned town in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens…