It shouldn’t be news when a Republican does the obviously right thing and says that, in the wake of Michael Flynn’s resignation as national security adviser, the Trump administration’s Russia ties should be investigated. But it is news, even when it involves a laughable premise, as with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt’s take:
"I think everybody needs that investigation to happen," Blunt said on KTRS radio. "And the Senate Intelligence Committee, again that I serve on, has been given the principle responsibility to look into this, and I think that we should look into it exhaustively so that at the end of this process, nobody wonders whether there was a stone left unturned, and shouldn't reach conclusions before you have the information that you need to have to make those conclusions."
"But the Senate Intelligence Committee is looking at this," he continued. "I would think that we should talk to Gen. Flynn very soon and that should answer a lot of questions. What did he know? What did he do? And is there any reason to believe that anybody knew that and didn't take the kind of action they should have taken?"
Talking to Flynn should answer a lot of questions? Did you miss where he’s established himself as a liar on this subject?
If the shock waves from this resignation, less than a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, force Republicans to do a halfway serious investigation, that’s great. But they need to face unrelenting pressure to do the right thing, because you know they want to drop it for fear of what they—and we—might find out.