I had an early morning breakfast appointment today in Olney MD at the Royal Bagel Bakery. For those not familiar with this area, Olnehy is just about 15 miles from here. It’s an easy shot – when I turn onto Connecticut Avenue, one block from my house – I just stay on Connecticut until it ends at/merges with Georgia Avenue in Aspen Hill and keep on going until I get to Olney. When we move to Judean Gardens Cemetery many years hence, the trip to Royal Bagel Bakery will only take about 5 minutes, so that will make it a lot easier.

At any rate, this was a new bagel bakery for me, and the bagels are quite good. We generally get our bagels either from Bethesda Bagels or Goldberg’s Bagels, but Royal Bagel Bakery, as well as the Bagelry (where Randolph Road meets New Hampshire Ave, about 10 miles from here) are equally as good. Closer bagels include the bagels at grocery stores (not good), Breads Unlimited (not good), and Bread Furst (limited variety and expensive), and a brand new source, Mamma’s on Connecticut Avenue at Livingston. Mamma’s is primarily a pizza house, but the storefront used to be Pumpernickel’s Bagels (I know, cognitive dissonance), which went out of business 5 or so years ago. Maybe the bagel ovens were still in the basement, but Mamma’s announced a few weeks ago that they were going to make there own bagels and open for breakfast. We shall see; no chance to go there yet. And then there is Call Your Mother, a deli-type restaurant taking over the Little Red Fox space about 1500 feet from here, but based on my tasting their bagels at the Capitol Hill location, I am not holding my breath.

So be it. But let’s digress. What are the House Republicans thinking? It seems clear. They are not thinking about legislation. They are not thinking about finding ways to cooperate with or work with the Democrats. They are going to use the next year or two to investigate and impeach, with the hope that they (facts aside) will be able to convince not only their general supporters, but others as well, that the Democrats should crawl back under their rocks. And, based on what we know of the general American public, they might be right.