What Were They Thinking?

 I'm not exactly on Cliven's side, I'm just surprised that he can openly flout the law with impunity and get away with it.  It makes me wonder what we are paying the government people to do if not to enforce the law.  I said at the time that they were ill advised to try to round up hundreds of free-range cattle to satisfy Bundy's debt.  Why didn't they just slap a lien on his house or something?

Then there's Trump.  If he did half the things that they say he did, he should have been locked up a long time ago.  For instance, why did they wait three years to prosecute him for all that election crap?  I said at the time that the impeachment thing was a waste of time because they knew they didn't have the votes in the Senate to convict him.  They should have waited until the day after he left office and then charged him in a regular court.  That insurrection thing might have been hard to prove, but I'm pretty sure they could have easily convicted him of inciting a riot.  It might have been difficult to seat an impartial jury, but the same can be said about any high-profile case with all that pre-trial publicity. 

 Then there's all those other January 6ers.  Last I heard, they were trying to convict them under some obscure law that was probably intended to protect government documents.  They have these guys on video tape busting doors, windows, and climbing all over the Capital like a bunch of monkeys.  That should be enough evidence to convict them of something more tangible.