Barr and the 'Circus'

I put between 90 and 120 minutes into watching the House hearing from yesterday, with AG Barr.  I came away with five observations:

1.  In the old days, prior to the internet, C$PAN would have covered this but you needed cable or satellite connectivity.  At the very most, maybe 300k Americans would have watched the hearing. 

Today?  Via at least ten different internet platforms, C$PAN, Fox Business, etc.....there were probably 10-million who watched elements of the hearing live, and probably another 10-plus million who watched clips later. 

A lot of people....independent-type voters, probably sat there and kept asking themselves where the drama was, and just viewed the whole thing as a 'circus-like' operation with 12-year-old kids trying to act like adults. 

2.  This exchange with Rep Hakeem Jeffries, where Jeffries wanted to play the fantasy game that Trump wouldn't leave office if the election went to Biden....was 5-star comical. 

3.  Once Barr laid down the card of the Republicans being the only ones against violence and destruction in the metropolitan cities....it really scorched the whole Democratic accomplishments of the Hearing.  It begs the question....is this a Democratic Party agenda item?

4.  Ineffective hearing?  In terms of bringing down Barr, or really damaging Trump?  It was barely felt.  The suggestion that Jerry Nadler can't lead a heavy-type critical Hearing?  Here's the thing, you go around the 24 Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee, and there's no one in the group who'd you grant five-status as a lawyer.  Most of them haven't stepped into a courtroom in twenty years. 

5.  It just wasn't much of a drama, with 'point of order' and 'reclaim time' being uttered on a constant basis.  It would help if the entire committee was made up of nine people total, and just end the 'drama' at the 2-hour point.