There
were distinct camps on the Hill, Monica Hesse and Ben Terris write in a colorful piece
for Style: “Democrats, who had oodles of time to talk about the
tweets in question, and GOP lawmakers, who had not even heard of the tweets in
question, and who is Donald Trump Jr., and what is a Twitter anyway? …
Sen. Dianne Feinstein gravely told reporters that the context of the meeting
was ‘pretty clear,’ while behind her, Sen. Ted Cruz was shuffling past with
his hands clamped on the shoulders of two small children walking in front of
him. ‘I’m just trying to have lunch with my daughters,’ he explained.
Elsewhere, Sen. Rand Paul had no daughters to lunch with, and so he kept his
hand clamped firmly to his cellphone as he strode past … (We are working on
the assumption there was a person on the other end of the line.) We are
reminded of Winston Churchill: This is not the end. This is not even the
beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, a sign that reality has become
untethered from itself and we have fallen into a parallel dimension where there
is no beginning or end.”
From Washington Post, The Daily 202, 7-12-2017
