EMBARRASSING – AT 10:56 A.M. ET:  That's the word I'd use to describe the entire spectacle yesterday surrounding former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress. 

Billed as "must see" TV, maybe on the level of "Dallas" or "The Apprentice," starring Donald Trump, the hearings were far from Earth-shaking.  No case of obstruction of justice was made against the president, although one could argue that he acted boorishly at times.  Are you shocked?  Nor was any evidence presented that he or anyone around him engaged in some conspiracy with the Russkies to influence our election.  From IBD:

If there's one thing Congress's Russia hearings have shown, it's that President Trump has driven the Democratic Party and far-left media to near insanity. How else can you explain their unhealthy fixation on all things Trump and nonstop efforts to end his presidency?

No, we're not joking. Listening to the hearings on Wednesday and Thursday, when National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, National Security Director Adm. Michael Rogers, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI Director James Comey testified, was a revelation.

In their questioning, Democrats were plainly not interested in the truth. They merely hoped for something, anything, that would be damning or damaging to Trump. In particular, they hoped for evidence of "obstruction of justice" to impeach Trump.

But they didn't get it. Under persistent questioning Wednesday, Coats, Rogers and McCabe all emphatically denied that Trump had brought improper pressure to bear on the Russia investigation.

None.

Again, on Thursday, Comey drove that point home, saying that he did not perceive anything that Trump said to him as an attempt to obstruct "the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to his campaign."

So in the end, as the current saying goes, it was a big nothing-burger, with cheese. And instead of a grand inquisition, it turned into rather pathetic political theater.

COMMENT:  But, of course, at CNN, the first name in hysteria, it was the most important event in human history, greater than the invention of the hot fudge sundae.  CNN commentators are being treated for shock this very moment.

June 9, 2017