Clown Derides "Clown Show"

Takes one to know one we suppose:

• Republicans who hold a majority in the U.S. House and whose infighting is risking a federal government shutdown by week’s end sought to focus attention Tuesday on a frequent target, Chicago crime and Democratic criminal justice policies, in a field hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

  The hearing at the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 was chaired by Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who co-founded the far-right Freedom Caucus that is playing a major role in the budget resolution delay. No Democrats attended and GOP panel members posed questions, such as one from Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, asking, “Is Chicago savable? Or, is the city in such a downward trajectory that our only hope is to make sure that these policies don’t spread to other places?”

Short answer - nope, not by a long shot.

• [Crimesha] Foxx told the Tribune she was not invited to testify at the hearing, which she described as a “clown show” and “an exercise in political theater that came at the cost of the exploitation of the loss of Black and brown lives.”

We don't think a Republican holds a significant office in Cook County, and hasn't in three or four decades. In Chicago, it's even longer - nearly a hundred years.

And in that time, how many black and brown lives have been "exploited?" In this case, we're using "exploited" as meaning "killed." Tens of thousands?

Yes, it's political theater, but it's a result of democrat policies.