For several years now my favorite Fiona has been the fictional Fiona Gallagher on the American version of Shameless. Sorry, Emmy, but Ms. Hill is now *the* Fiona for the way she handled herself during the impeachment hearings this week. There were many moments of clarity during her and David Holmes' live testimony, but the words that hit hardest may have been in her opening statement in which she implored congressional Republicans to wake from their Fox News stupor:

“Based on questions and statements I’ve heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves. The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.” 

Dayum.

Sadly it would seem that the out-of-their depth Intelligence committee Republicans including Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes, and the oh-so-compromised Lindsey Graham are choosing party over country by sticking with the grifter-in-chief and his low-information voter base. The time will come when they clutch their pearls and claim that they didn't know they were working in service of a criminal, and the prison guards will laugh at them and say, "Yard time is over, son, get back inside."


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