Today the Republican controlled house called the head of the Secret Service onto the carpet to be harangued for failing to stop the shooter who attempted to kill mr. trump. We are making an assumption that that was the shooter's intention, not an unreasonable one.  It has occurred to me that had the young man climbed onto the roof of that building with a rifle and used the scope to watch the proceedings, and been killed by a sniper, he would not have been guilty of a crime more severe than violating some state regulation regarding his age and having the gun in public.  Until he fired a shot, the state had no right to take his life, which may be one reason why the counter snipers waited as long as they did. One talking head said that the boy should have been shot as soon as he appeared on the roof.

    The Secret Service has had a clean record for 43 years, protecting political charges. But , mr. jordan seemed to feel that that counted for nothing. Is there any agency that can boast that kind of record.  The truth is that it is impossible to prevent, every time,  a determined assassin who is willing to die to kill a person. In this particular case there was a sequence vortex in which all the tiny parts almost lined up perfectly, ( the shooter missed.) like the monkey typing for ever, eventually reproducing a Shakespearean play, like the 9/11 disaster.  After years of investigating that incident you could look back and draw a line connecting all the points at which someone might have ,or did notice something odd, which subsequently got missed or lost, all of which led up to the disaster. The result of that long  investigation led to a massive reorganization of large parts of the government, and probably an increase in federal spending.

    In this case the house committee wants answers immediately, which is plainly stupid and unreasonable. When something bad happens, we Americans seem to first blame somebody, anybody. "It is not my fault!" Notice that the head of the Secret Service did not shirk her responsibility by blaming someone else.  She simply said more time was needed to determine where the planning failed. 

 The rnc could have encouraged trump to have his rallies in enclosed venues, but he runs the rnc. I think mr jordan and his maga compatriots wanted political talking points while the subject remains fresh in the minds of voters rather than a comprehensive assessment of how and why events played out. That isn't to say that the Democrats don't do the same thing when they have the opportunity.

As a minor aside, the maga members of the committee were using main stream media releases as evidence of wrong doing on the part of the service, which seems a reversal of their  long standing position that the main stream media is the enemy of the people, until it bolsters their point of view.

     Perhaps if trump gets reelected, he can fire the whole Secret Service and hire the proud boys to protect him and his family.