Spot on, GfS. Partisan minds are fixating gleefully on utterly petty minutiae such as TrooperGate, etc....which is kind of incredible in the light of the much larger and more significant national issues which are out there to be concerned about.

But never underestimate the pettiness of partisan minds, always searching for another molehill to rave on about while toiling in the shadows of the mountain of national iniquity that towers above them daily.

It's exactly the same predatory mindset, in my opinion, that fuels local gossip in a small town.

So....we have a country that has illegally invaded and occupied another country (Iraq) which never attacked it...and never even had the means to...a country which is planning to do similarly to yet another country (Iran)...and its citizens are meanwhile obsessing about BS like Troopergate and what Reverend Wright said in some sermon years ago.

In-fucking-credible.

The partisan mind will fixate on ANYTHING which it thinks can do damage to the other party. That's all it cares about...doing damage.

But neither one of those damned parties will address the real issues or even speak them out loud. Goodness no! It's like the 3 monkeys. They remain silent, blind, and mute in the face of the obvious criminality of their shared national policy.