[Tim Young (@Tim-RunsHisMouth) is a media fellow for strategic communications at The Heritage Foundation.]

If hypocrisy were a crime, half the Senate Judiciary Committee would be behind bars after Tuesday’s hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The proceeding was billed as an oversight hearing, but what played out was a partisan ambush— Democrats flailing to paint President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as a tool of corruption and favoritism.

Their problem? Every accusation they lobbed could just as easily have been directed back at themselves.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut led the charge, pressing Bondi on supposed lobbying connections related to a series of antitrust mergers—including the Paramount-Skydance merger (which Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, quickly noted is under the Federal Communications Commission’s jurisdiction, not the Department of Justice’s), Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s merger with Juniper Networks, and others.

Bondihadheardenough. “Icannotbelievethatyou would accuse me of impropriety when you lied about your military service. You lied, you admitted you lied to be elected a U.S. senator,” she fired back.

“Don’t you ever challenge my integrity.”

It’s always great when a career prosecutor reminds a career politician that character matters.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, wasn’t far behind in absurdity.

She also accused Bondi’s DOJ of caving to lobbyists in the HPE-Juniper case.

Never mind that U.S. intelligence literally asked that DOJ to approve the merger for national security reasons—to counter Huawei, a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and considered a national security threat by both parties.