Things to Come

While H. G. Wells is best known for novels like War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, he also wrote directly for the screen.  His film Things to Come chronicles the downfall, and subsequent rebuilding, of Western society.

Metaphor alert!  Booop!!  Booop!!!  Booop!!!! Come January 3, only thirty-eight days from this writing, Republicans will face something like the disintegration and re-assembly around which Wells constructed his movie.  So, think of this post as a trailer or preview.

Elijah Cummings (D - MD) is the putative head of the House Oversight Committee.  In that capacity, Mr. Cummings has promised to work with Republican (minority) members of his Committee, but to deny them the extensive subpoena power they've held and exercised in the past two years.

Jerrold Nadler (D - NY) will, after 01/03/19, head the House Judiciary Committee.  Nadler hopes to conduct inquiries into the Trump administration’s policies of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, increases in anti-Semitic incidents and hate crimes since the president took office, voter suppression, Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and, should it come about, impeachment.

Adam Schiff (D-CA) , soon to head the House Intelligence Committee, has vowed that it and he will investigate Donald Trump's financial ties top Saudi Arabia.

Looks like there are lots of interesting things to come ...