I take your question

"Every poet is an optimist."

~ James Baldwin

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Listening to some Robert Mueller on You Tube today -- legislators took turns asking him questions.  Several of the Republicans would ask him a question and then drown out his answer, yelling.

One guy from Ohio -- it was either Jim Jordan or Mark Meadows I think -- ranted and wanted Mueller to investigate some guy in Italy instead... 

Though he had posed a nominal "question" to Mr. Mueller, it was pretty clear the legislator from the Buckeye State would rather just  be talking, himself -- at one point the Ohioan interrupted his own screed to say in a loud, staccato tone, as if he were a rapper or an entertainment pundit (or "pundent" as Kellyann Conway would say) --

"Here's the good news;
here's the good news!"

(When I was a child in Bible School they used to teach us about the "Good News" of God's love and Jesus saving us from our sins -- but that appeared not to be the "good news" to which this politician was referring....)

I thought, "It is clear that he thinks that sounds witty or something."  And right when I thought that, a few seconds later -- he did it again, lol!

"Here's the good news;
here's the good news!" --

all sort of -- snarly...

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