“Beating a dead horse ...”

Wikipedia writes: “beating a dead horse is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue is futile, or that to continue in any endeavor is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided.”

Sound familiar? This is exactly what's going on now with the Republicans in the Senate. Despite the fact that the FBI (again) forcefully defended its decision to not criminally charge Hillary Clinton they were obliged to turn over a variety of material from the investigation to the Oversight Committee this week. The GOP controlled Congress is now about to start an investigation that is sure to be extremely costly and I wouldn't mind so much EXCEPT ….guess who is paying for this? That's right …WE, the TAXPAYERS !!!

You can bet that not a penny of this will affect the members of that committee … they already have perks above and beyond the imagination of most of us ordinary citizens ! But, think about it … how can we possibly believe anything that will come out of this ? Much of the material is classified and should be kept that way but you know that there will be “leaks” ...and these will be half-truths and conjectures.

There is no question that Secretary of State Clinton was negligent in her Email use when in office ...BUT ,,, what about these two Secretary of States who did the same thing? Yep, you guessed it … the two paragons of virtue are none other than Condoleeza Rice and Colon Powell ! I guess that just goes to show that, after all is said and done, these three are merely humans, after all.