Motivation

Ordinarily, when Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii says something it's a good time to remember than in some conversations, the phrase "please stop talking" can't come too early.

But when U.S. Attorney General William Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify to issues regarding the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Sen. Hirono's questions -- which featured far more accusatory than interrogatory tones of voice -- some other thoughts came to mind.

One is that AG Barr has much more patience than I do. At one point Sen. Hirono interrupted him to say, "Give us some credit for knowing what the hell is going on around here." My response would have been something like, "It'll have to be credit, Senator, because you sure as hell haven't earned it." AG Barr did not say that or anything like it.

After hearing and reading about this session, I am now torn between believing that the voters of Hawaii are irredeemably dumb or irredeemably evil. If they indeed believed that Sen. Hirono was the best person they could send to Washington on their behalf, they were very dumb. I looked up both of her Senate campaigns, and in neither of them did she face an actual shapeshifting alien lizard intent on conquering our planet so that we humans might become a food source for them. Thus "dumbest choice in the history of choices" is the only other option.

On the other hand, it could be that the voters of Hawaii think no better of Sen. Hirono than anyone else does, and they decided to get her as far away from them as possible as many days of the year as possible. When she is in Washington, D.C., she is ten hours flight time away. But in order to do that, they had to put her in the U.S. Senate, despite what that means for the rest of us. The only name for that is evil.

(5/4: Edited to correct Attorney General's first name)