Who will oversee the overseers?

 Yesterday Mediaite reported that a man tried unsuccessfully to bring his "emotional support" alligator to a Philadelphia Phillies game.  That was ordinary compared to events in Our Nation's Capital.

Insert a Babelfish in your ear and tell me what this means:  "Did Nightly News have to grab, did Lester Holt have to go because you forced it, because it's a forcing function?  Exactly something they have to touch?"  It sounds like something painful happened to Lester Holt, but it's Steve Bannon trying to make sense of a public session of the House Oversight Committee, televised for all the world to see.  James Comer introduced a series of witnesses who had not witnessed anything and testified that there was nothing to witness in the matter of the Trump Party v. Joseph R. Biden.  "If you're going to impeach a president of the United States, act like it's serious," Bannon advised his audience, possibly unable to remember the matter of Newton Gingrich v. Bill Clinton's Penis.  Philip Bump sacrificed six hours of his life listening to this argle-bargle, but he didn't note that Democrats had brought their comedy A-game:

"As a former director of emergency management I know a disaster when I see one."  (Jared Moskowitz, Florida)

"When we start talking about things that look like evidence, they want to act like they're blind.  They don't know what this is."  (Jasmine Crockett of Texas displaying a picture of the most famous bathroom in Mar a Lago.)  "These are our national secrets -- looks like in the shitter to me." 

"We have one witness who has a lot of questions -- [Eileen] O'Connor, one witness who knows something about accounting but has no real involvement in what is going on [Bruce Dubinsky] and [Jonathan] Turley's stopping here on his way to his next Fox News hit."  (Maxwell Frost, Florida) 

There may yet be hope for Florida and Texas.

Margie Greene did some heckling but did not offer any genital photos into evidence.  The rest of the Comettes were silent.  

But there were plenty of other activities yesterday.  Passing a budget?  Don't be silly -- although when they do pass one, it will require that the Secretary of Defense be paid one dollar per year.  Uh huh, that's right, keep calling Marge a Neanderthal-looking cracker and see if you even get that.

According to the New York Post, Melania Trump reacted to Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling that her husband lied like a cheap rug about his net worth by re-re-re-negotiating her pre-nup.  No way is she going back to slinging Slovenian hash in Ljubljana.  By the way, no one should be surprised by any of this -- Paul Krugman said years ago that Trump would be richer today if he'd put Fred's money in a savings account.  He doesn't have the minimal intelligence needed to build pre-fab doghouses.

Joe Biden joined a picket line of striking members of the United Auto Workers in Van Buren, Michigan, reminding Americans that the union gave back gains when times were hard and would like them restored.  Trump showed up at a non-union auto parts plant in Clinton, Michigan, where employees were ordered to listen to him and to hold "Auto Workers for Trump" signs -- one reason they need a union.  Will he address the workers at the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin that he and Scott Walker celebrated in 2017 ("the eighth wonder of the world")?  Oh, that's right, it was never built.  The land was bought this year by Microsoft, which Trump hates.

Elon Musk donned a cowboy hat, possibly backwards, and traveled to the southern border to report that "some pretty extreme individuals" are entering the country.  He could tell by looking at them, or possibly he met some who spoke Afrikaans.  Anyway, another expert on immigration policy.

At Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall near Washington, General Mark Milley retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs with a warning:  "We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.  We don't take an oath to an individual.  We take an oath to the Constitution."  To which the wannabe dictator responded, "Slow moving and thinking.  Look at his words -- STUPID & VERY DANGEROUS!"  It's important that Wannabe never again pretend to take an oath to the Constitution.

Dianne Feinstein died last night.  Nancy Pelosi wanted it known that she voted on the last day of her life.