Washington’s Jam-packed December Will Cast a Long Shadow on 2020

There’s very little comfort and joy in our nation’s capital this month. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Normally, the beginning of December would signal the onset of a slow season in Washington, particularly in Congress.

We could see some guerrilla theater in this first, dry-sounding Judiciary hearing, orchestrated by ranking Republican Doug Collins of Georgia.

And in case you were wondering, there are exactly zero signs of House Republicans breaking ranks to give the likely impeachment of the president any bipartisan cover. Both the Post and the New York Times have claimed that Horowitz’s report is unlikely to confirm the key claim of Trump and his allies: that rogue elements in the FBI cooked up the entire Trump collusion with Russia saga and in doing so illegally spied on Trump campaign advisers, notably George Papadopolous and Carter Page.

Mr. Horowitz’s mixed bag of conclusions is likely to give new ammunition to both Mr. Trump’s defenders and critics in the long-running partisan fight over the Russia investigation. Last week, Mr. Trump described the coming report in a phone interview with “Fox & Friends” as potentially “historic” and predicted “perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

A second stopgap funding bill signed by Trump on November 21 will run out on December 20. All kinds of disputes and questions involving the 12 regular appropriations bills would have to be enacted by December 20 to fully fund the federal government until next October. Beyond that, there remains the perpetual possibility that Trump will engineer a shutdown over the predictable refusal of House Democrats to give him the money he wants for his border wall.

Thought the Dems said things were going to get boring? Are they going to finally admit Congress is the hoax side of the governing branch?

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