Aside from the pop culture reference, it’s more important that the cartoon episode cited by Stephen Stromberg in his WaPo editorial does feature Rick defeating Russian oligarchs. It’s a lot better than worrying about who Maureen Dowd invites to her parties.
Throughout Wednesday’s congressional hearings with former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, I was reminded of the opening scene of the iconic “Pickle Rick” episode of the irreverent Adult Swim show, “Rick and Morty.”
“I turned myself into a pickle, Morty,” says Rick, formerly a genius mad scientist, now little more than a sentient gherkin, to his grandson.
“And?” Morty replies.
“And? What more do you want tacked on to this?”
On Wednesday, Mueller’s answers could be summed up: “I made a report. What more do you want tacked on to this?”
For hours Wednesday, Democrats maneuvered to get Mueller to state that President Trump clearly broke the law, that he would be facing criminal charges if he weren’t president and that he deserves impeachment. Republicans, meanwhile, seemed determined to get him to admit that his staff was biased against the president and that the Russia investigation was founded on Democrat-funded lies. To which Mueller replied with terse, often one-word answers that allowed him to evade making a political spectacle that would help one side or the other.
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