by ButterflyEffect

On Tuesday afternoon, as Gordon Sondland was winding things up in his eventful meeting with the House Intelligence Committee, I was starting to despair that no one would point out that he’s still a smug plutocrat who bought himself an ambassadorship for which he was not qualified. And that, had the whistleblower not blown the whistle, Sondland would still be a willing participant in the Ukraine shakedown. And, in fact, had other witnesses not completely shredded his previous testimony, Sondland would be blissfully walking the streets of Brussels, pretending to be a man of international influence, and waiting to be served with a warrant for perjury.