captain_spalding said:

Now that all the tumult and shouting has pretty much died away, many people are looking forward to getting some answers to some really nasty questions that have been hanging around for some time now.

Unless, of course, the Democrats decide to be deucedly ‘gentlemanly’ about it.

From Jeff Tiedrich’s pages:

I rather expected this. That polite, unwritten and unspoken agreement that seems to exist in politics everywhere.

“Tell you what, we won’t make any serious efforts to turn over any rocks that have your party’s really disgusting/criminal things under them, if you agree to not take any of the skeletons out of our cupboard and expose them to scrutiny when you have the chance, OK?’

Of course, there may be some ‘inquiries’ held where people get ‘grilled’ about some things, and there may be some red faces at which people can point and jeer, but, ultimately, no-one will suffer greatly, no-one will go to prison, and it will be determined that society is to blame.

we love that when they know they have practically no chance of success then they can come out screaming and shouting that they will fix it all up, but suddenly when there’s a possibility of actually getting burnt it’s all peace pipes and olive branches