A snippet from
Olbermann's latest:
2. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating:
No, it isn't.
I can't estimate how many emails I've gotten insisting that what Representative Conyers is doing is a "congressional investigation."
Mr. Conyers has thus far held two "voting forums," one in Washington D.C., and the other in Columbus, Ohio, and may hold another after the holidays. They may be of great importance, and could serve as the basis for all manner of later investigations.
But Conyers and the other Congressmen - all Democrats - taking testimony, are meeting ad hoc. Being members of the minority, they can't act, they can't get legislation passed, they can't get anything done, without the cooperation of some Republicans. And they aren't going to get that cooperation.
Officially, the most Mr. Conyers and his colleagues can do now is to formally challenge Ohio's slate of voters when the Electoral College balloting is opened before the joint session of Congress on January 6th. Last week, on Countdown, Conyers said he was fully prepared to do that (the Constitution requires one willing congressman and one willing Senator to put such a challenge in writing), but he would not commit to doing it himself, and has not referred to it since.
Barring the biggest of possible evidentiary surprises - something so overwhelming and conclusive that it would convince police, FBI, and the Republican Party that Ohio's vote was fatally flawed - even a formal challenge would be, at best, a token protest.