Democrats are so precious, aren’t they? Bless their little hearts. If it weren’t so pathetic, though, it might even be entertaining to watch Democrat politicians collapse into angst over the long-overdue indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. You’d think the man had been accused of double-parking, not lying to Congress and obstructing justice.

A federal grand jury finally caught up with Comey this past week, charging him over his 2020 testimony about the FBI’s Russian-interference investigation. Prosecutors say he lied about authorizing leaks to the press. Imagine that. Comey, lying. The same Comey who slipped information to reporters strutted around like J.B. Pritzker at a buffet and wrote a book called A Higher Loyalty. If he’s working on a sequel, maybe he should call it A Lower Bail.

Naturally, the Democratic outrage machine fired right up. Senator Dick Durbin, who’s managed to stack up ten million bucks in 43 years on the government dole, was quick to declare that the Justice Department had become “a political tool of a vengeful president.” Strange, I don’t recall him saying that when Obama’s DOJ was spying on Trump’s campaign with doctored FISA warrants. Must have slipped his mind.

Elizabeth Warren, the self-appointed moral compass of the Senate (and part-time Cherokee, depending on which week you ask her), screeched that “using the justice system to go after political opponents is what dictators do.” Sure, Liz. But not when it’s Crossfire Hurricane, Hillary’s email scandal, or any of the other messes swept under the rug. Maybe she was too busy having a beer in her kitchen.

And then there’s Representative Jamie Raskin, wringing his hands that the indictment is just part of Trump’s “wrath and vengeance campaign.” This, from a guy who sat on the January 6th committee, that prime-time revenge circus dressed up as civic duty. If vengeance were actually a crime, Raskin would already be in prison.

Not to be outdone, little George Stephanopoulos clutched his pearls about “shattered norms.” Norms? George ought to know; he helped unleash the Clintons on America. Hearing him worry about broken standards is like being lectured on sobriety by Charlie Sheen.

And then we got House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who thundered that the indictment was “a disgraceful attack on the rule of law… a malicious prosecution.” He even warned that “anyone complicit in this malignant corruption will face accountability.” That’s rich. If accountability were really on the docket, half of Washington would already be trying on orange jumpsuits, starting with Hillary for the emails, Obama for his FISA games, and Hunter Biden for moonlighting as an international bagman while Daddy Joe looked the other way.

But here’s the kicker: these same Democrats, who once flung impeachments around like frisbees, now whine about banana republic tactics. They impeached Trump over a single phone call asking about Burisma and Hunter Biden, but they’re the guardians of democracy? Please.

So yes, James Comey, the man who toured the country preaching about “truth,” is finally getting a taste of the justice system he spent years twisting. Democrats call it a “disgraceful attack.” The rest of us call it Tuesday.

And honestly, the irony is almost poetic. For years, Democrats insisted that questioning their investigations was an assault on “our sacred institutions.” Now that one of their golden boys is under the microscope, suddenly it’s those institutions doing the assaulting. They want it both ways, believing Americans are dull-witted. What we’re seeing isn’t democracy collapsing, no matter how much they holler. It’s justice limping, late, maybe even wheezing, but finally remembering where it left its blindfold. And if that makes the political class itch or break into hives, then maybe, just maybe, the system is actually working again.