I know there's a pony in here somewhere ...

A boy keeps pestering his parents for a pony for Christmas. 

Every day he keeps asking.  He writes Santa for a pony.  He whines. He prays, loudly.  He just keeps nagging and nagging.  As Christmas draws near, he pushes even harder.    

His parents have finally had enough.  So Christmas Eve, while he’s asleep, to teach him a lesson the parents put a couple of road apples in a box and place it under the tree for him. 

The next morning, he rushes to the tree and opens the box.  He sees the road apples. He looks around and says: “I know there’s a pony in here somewhere.”

That about sums up the Democrats’ reaction to the Mueller report. 

The Mueller report turned out to be a great disappointment for them: no evidence of collusion, no obstruction of justice, no indictments of Trump and his associates. This, after almost three years of investigations, 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and 500 witness interviews.

Their reaction? They still think there’s a pony for them in there somewhere. 

A very recent poll of Democrats – after the release of the Attorney General’s summary of the report – showed that 59% don’t accept the results of the Mueller probe.

Remember, Democrats were absolutely, positively certain Mueller would get the goods on Trump; the goods they needed to convince the public Trump was a traitor and should be impeached if not imprisoned. The media kept saying the same thing for two years, day after day, night after night, promising that the “walls were closing in” on Trump and he was about to fall.   

Then the summary comes out. Nothing. How could that possibly be? 

House and Senate Democrats are now demanding to see the full, unredacted report. They insist that until they have a chance to review every last line, every witness interview, every bit of testimony before the grand juries, every piece of “evidence” Mueller and his team uncovered, they won’t be satisfied. Until then, and even after then, they will continue to investigate Trump.

They keep hoping against all evidence to the contrary that they will find something, anything, any thread to pull to prove Trump colluded with the Russians and obstructed justice. And if they can’t find anything related to those, they’ll go after Trump’s taxes, his business dealings, his affairs, his possible collusion with space aliens or replicants from the planet Gorgo, whatever.   

Years from now they’ll still be investigating. They’ll keep hoping to find something. 

Right now they’ve got nothing but road apples. Rather than accept the real conclusion, they’ll keep searching and searching. 

Because everyone knows where there’s road apples, there must be a pony.