>>As if the whole issue would have been all fine and dandy if it wasn't aired.
Which sums up the whole swamp attitude. It's all the fault of the little boy who shouted that the emperor has no clothes. "We have high confidence that the so-called little boy actually is a 40-year-old Russian called Boris, because everybody knows that's the sort of destabilizing antic you expect from a dirty Ruskie,"
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
