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Spring has sprung. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming. And, in our nation's capital, the snipe are running strong for the local hunters. From Politico:

Let us provide a little context here. Fox News is in disarray. The Republican Party can't seem to keep itself from either proposing unpopular policies or nominating El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago for a third time, and he can't seem to stop losing high profile legal battles. The loons are driving the train, and more and more people are starting to notice. So, obviously, it's time for a little of the old conspiracy okey-doke to draw some attention away from the fact their party is nothing but thieves and vandals.

So we get an unidentifiable "highly credible whistleblower" who is said to "assert knowledge" of something some other confidential source told the FBI. Go to James Comer and Chuck Grassley and tell them you saw Hunter Biden lighting the Hindenburg on fire and you, too, can be a Highly Credible Whistleblower. Act now. Operators are standing by. This is a free call.

This complete non-story blew out the entire front page of the New York Post. National Review is a touch less perfervid, but it's also enthusiastic in its accounts of all the previous hunts for all the previous snipes.

As you can see, Politico gingerly hinted that the whole thing might be all wind. And Comer is so notorious for quoting unnamed "whistleblowers" that the Democrats on his committee have called him out on it. Rep. Jamie Raskin, for one, is unsatisfied with the bona fides behind this latest move.

And, of course, CNN is giving the former president* a bloc of time next week to lie about everything, so I'm sure this will come up in a fashion unfamiliar to the rational mind. Nobody has learned anything.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children.

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