The Republicans’ Fake Investigations - The New York Times

A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html?_r=0