Do You Pay Attention to News in the Summertime? I Do.

 I like this judge.  She fights works.

Judge Noreika kicked off the hearing by telling lawyers that they did not need to keep “popping” up and down every time she asked them a question.  It was a signal that she was about to subject them to a relentless interrogation over elements of an agreement she described, variously, as “not standard, not what I normally see,” possibly “unconstitutional,” without legal precedent and potentially “not worth the paper it is printed on.”

She not from the go-along-to-get-along club.  She likely worked her way up, with that name. And it shows in the quality of her work.  More like that serving us, please.

Function over form.  We're gonna have to rid the Capitol of the Bidens the way we did the Bushes, I fear, because they refuse to go gently into that good night, and goodness knows, the Nation is in need of a Change.  The legacy baggage must go.  We're well into the 21st century, still dragging the privileged sons from the past into the Future.*

This too must end.  (I'm sure they'll get their agreement, but don't kid yourselves that Future voters are not watching the Special Treatment the president's boy is getting here... Nada mas.)

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*Where does it end? When?

Judge Noreika quickly zeroed in on a paragraph offering Mr. Biden broad immunity from prosecution, in perpetuity, for a range of matters scrutinized by the Justice Department. The judge questioned why prosecutors had written it in a way that gave her no legal authority to reject it. 

Then, in 10 minutes of incisive questioning, she exposed serious differences between the two sides on what, exactly, that paragraph meant.  

Christopher Clark, Mr. Biden’s lead lawyer, said it indemnified his client not merely for the tax and gun offenses uncovered during the inquiry, but for other possible offenses stemming from his lucrative consulting deals with companies in Ukraine, China and Romania.  

Prosecutors had a far narrower definition. They saw Mr. Biden’s immunity as limited to offenses uncovered during their investigation of his tax returns dating back to 2014, and his illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018, when he was a heavy drug user, they said.

Take your money and go home already, Joe.  (Convince the Mrs. if that's what it takes...) Like with Flynn, they've got your kid by the short hairs... 

Dems really need to be overturning rocks right now, looking for an acceptable replacement candidate/ticket to present.  Two co-equals perhaps, presenting a vision of positivity and competence.  (Or competence and positivity better yet, in the President and Pre-President roles that sees less executive influence, and more leaders stepping up in Congress...)  Hell, take somebody strong at the state level who can grow in the job even... 

I just can't see -- without expecting a lot of extra "help" -- anyway the Biden/Harris ticket pulls out a win.  Nobody predicts that, no matter how bad the other team allegedly might be batting...

Klobuchar/Booker? (keep Pete in the shadows, please, again in a Cabinet-level post. He's got family at home to concentrate on, and electorally, he is a liability right now, being so identity-politicked over substantive achievements.  We're rejecting that, in case you haven't noticed...)

I'd be putting my money on a darkhorse/wildcard over betting Team Biden right now.  It's just not healthy to put the nation through the drama with so many young people coming up in America today, looking on, watching Washington piss away their futures.