One of the underrated challenges of blogging is that often you’ll stumble across news items where all that needs to be said, or that really can be said, is “LOL.” But we haven’t yet reached the stage of utopia where one can make a living LOL-ing at things.

That’s a pure leisure activity, essentially what Twitter is for.

I’ll just remind you, then, that the high-minded Mr. Schiff represents at D+23 district in California, where any attempt to impeach a Democratic president would itself be deemed a high crime or misdemeanor punishable by a ferocious primary challenge. The polling for Jeff Van Drew among Democrats in his own New Jersey district was so brutal after he voted against authorizing the impeachment inquiry that Van Drew concluded he’d have a better shot at reelection by switching parties — and he’s in a swing district. That is, however angry Democratic voters there might be at him, there was a strong strategic argument for sticking with him in the primary and taking advantage of his incumbency to hold the seat. But they didn’t care. He betrayed the party and they were set to make him pay.