House Judiciary's ranking Democrat asks two watchdogs to investigate taxpayer-funded ads, neither obligated to reply.

…(cont) Which is where the morgue earns its keep. Three days before the letter went out, Jordan was on a Sunday radio program, telling the audience what the opposition would do with a gavel it does not currently hold. Democrats say they won't impeach President Trump a third time, Jordan said. "But we know they will." The chair was previewing a vote that has not happened, in a Congress Republicans still control, for an audience that will likely never see what the GAO finds either — because that finding, if it comes, lands on a desk the chair also controls.

Five days before that, a poll of Democratic voters found most of them wanted prosecutions, plural administrations, over Gaza. Nobody has sent that letter. The one that did go out this week asks a watchdog to look at an ad budget.

All together now, one more time — the line both letters would share, the one bureaucratic correspondence always closes on: thank you for your attention to this important matter. The Government Accountability Office's attention is real. What it is permitted to do with that attention, under this chair, in this Congress, remains someone else's to decide.