My first conspiracy theory using your analogy as the frog being the democrats.
Maybe the frog isn't in the water, it's just a mirage. Maybe the frog is on the whole thing just with different motives/rewards than the republicans .
Who the F cares about how these people like Cheney, Generals etc reacted.
They didn't come out when it mattered.
Complicit and/or Enablers most all of them, both sides of the aisle.
I see the same scenario with Nugent-Hopkins in a few years.
Get a couple of more productive years from him but the price you pay for this is giving him more contact years then warranted.
Bubble wrap strategy on purpose.
Politics is just business. It's a grift. The smell of money creates policy and legislation.
All political parties are led by big business and their dark money to make more money for the 1%.
We're hooped.
And just to make my head spin even more, I'd add grifters using other grifters to grift, i.e., the Kelly's, Bolton's etc etc of the world.
What a complete gong show.