If they want to duck and cover and plead the Fifth, let them do it on live television.

They shall be a portion for foxes. Too mean to be fit food for the lions, the foxes shall sniff around their corpses, and the jackals shall hold carnival over their carcasses.

—Psalms 63:10

News never sleeps any more. I was sitting on my porch, taking the night air, when there was a palpable stirring in the cyber realm. Paper was flying in all directions. From the New York Times:

The subpoenas, the first the panel has issued, seek information from Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff; Dan Scavino Jr., who was a deputy chief of staff; Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s former adviser; and Kash Patel, the former Pentagon chief of staff. The committee is demanding that the four men turn over documents by Oct. 7 and submit to depositions the following week…

…The subpoenas come as the committee has demanded detailed records about Mr. Trump’s every movement and meeting on the day of the assault, in requests to federal agencies that suggested it was focusing on any involvement the former president might have had in the attack’s planning or execution. Their swift issuance indicates that the panel is moving aggressively on its investigation, without pausing to negotiate with key witnesses who could furnish important information.

I have no illusions that the targets of these subpoenas won’t fight them tooth and nail, although Kash Patel’s comments in response have some interesting shards of daylight in them.

“I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the committee tried to subpoena me through the press and violated longstanding protocol — which I upheld as a congressional staffer — by resorting to compulsory process before seeking my voluntary cooperation,” Mr. Patel said in a statement. “I will continue to tell the truth to the American people about the events of Jan. 6.”

Would that were true.

They will try anything, but none of it will work if this commission remains merciless. The people served on Thursday night are unworthy of being treated as anything more than criminal defendants. If they want to duck and cover and plead the Fifth, let them do it on live television. El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago is already squealing, which should be an inspiration to all right-thinking people to continue to jump up and down on his last nerve.

The “Unselect Committee” of highly partisan politicians, a similar group that perpetrated the now proven lie of Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and many other Scams, has sent out Harassment Subpoenas on Jan. 6th so that the Government of the United States can continue wasting time while Russia, China, and virtually every other country that deals with our Nation can continue to “eat our lunch,” and laugh at the stupidity of what is going on at our Southern Border, and the worst withdrawal from a war zone by any Nation in history—all of this while the Democrats persecute and prosecute Republicans which is, together with Rigging Elections, essentially all they know how to do. We will fight the Subpoenas on Executive Privilege and other grounds, for the good of our Country, while we wait to find out whether or not Subpoenas will be sent out to Antifa and BLM for the death and destruction they have caused in tearing apart our Democrat-run cities throughout America.

That is what my mother used to call HIGH-sterics. We need more public tantrums, not less. The commission owes them to us. Any serious recovery from the depredations of the previous administration* is necessarily going to require painful cauterization of all our institutions because, while some of the shrapnel has been removed, the infection remains and is spreading. There’s no cure for it better than sunshine and fresh air.