I’ve been rather agitated, myself, and so has Kristy.
(There is a humorous aspect: as usual, Randi Rhodes has a theory that one of her heroes, in this case John Conyers, had to be blackmailed into doing the wrong thing—which actually would make John Conyers look much worse than if he were being simply an obedient soldier! At least with Colin Powell the supposed blackmail looks better than what actually must have happened—that Powell, a professional suck-up, hadn’t the courage to resign.)