Mar 27, 2019

March 27, 2019: Three Word Refrain, Unanswered Questions, If. Fucking. Only.




Yahoo news reports today that Monica Lewinski, the subject of the Bill Clinton impeachment, responded with a tart reply.

Lewinski was“responding to a law professor's comparison of Mueller's still-confidential report on the ties between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government to the 1998 release of the Starr Report...On Sunday, Barr issued a four-page summary of Mueller's report, stating that Mueller did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia...

Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton's Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes,' Orin Kerr, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, tweeted Tuesday Evening'”.

Lewinsky retweeted Kerr later that evening with a three word refrain: if.fucking.only” (1)

Ken Starr, now a professor at large teaching at Pepperdine University had made a pig's breakfast of the proceedings, and a mockery of justice. Originally called into being to probe the already exhaustively probed “Whitewater” affair—a real estate venture gone off the rails back in Arkansas as the Clinton's were on the political rise, Starr's inquiry found itself sucked down the drain of tawdry sexual scandal that not only exceeded its mandate but about which the country could have cared less. It was, after all, consensual sex among adults and who, after all, would not want to be blown by one so attractive? Nevertheless Starr treated us to all the pornographically titillating details, dragging the young intern through the mud, savaging her reputation. She has spent the rest of her life living the aftermath.

But then, to the ReSCUMlickans everything—including the most personal—are fair game as long as it serves their jaded political interest.

Yes, if only...If only Starr had exercised reasonable adult judgment. How much less painful would her life be?

But the question presents itself to the nation as a whole, because in the process of violating all sorts of norms...from reporting on and seeking criminal indictment on matters surrounding the sex life of presidents—to publishing grand jury testimony—to requiring a president sit before a camera and testify under oath—all novel inventions by Starr, the scandal has left a legacy that has paralyzed the nation. A remedy—the Special Counsel appointed by Congress and reporting to Congress—was abused and then destroyed by Ken Starr. It has been replaced by a process in which probes into presidential iniquity are conducted not by independent counsel but by the Justice Department and report not to Congress but the Attorney General. The result is that no matter what Mueller reports the political apparatchiks will have their finger prints all over the findings, destroying the credibility of the effort.

The Starr probe served to be such a fiasco that lessons learned by the “generation of swine”--that malignant generation currently clinging to the last breath of power—are not the lessons of Watergate, but the lessons of the Lewinski affair. Long before Mueller submitted his report the Democratic leadership—as has been discussed here in previous columns—found itself reluctant to even begin impeachment hearings. The reason is that when the scum did it to Clinton it backfired, Clinton's popularity only rose as a consequence.

I think that's a fair assessment if you are only considering the Stormy Daniels affair. This inquiry, like the Lewinski mess, is unrelated and tangential at best to the serious high crimes committed by the scum now occupying the Oval Office. And it has been and will continue to be treated accordingly. That tRUMP has been, in effect, named as an 'unindicted co-conspirator' in the Daniels' cover-up has been and will be met with a collective yawn by the nation at large. After all, who cares who the swine is porking?

But the press, always mesmerized by tits and ass, has pressed the case; for there is money to be made in appealing to the prurient interest. Mesmerized by silicone instead of violated innocence, our Disgustus, as his predecessor, will dance free. The difference is that instead of a playboy we are confronted with the most corrupt, mendacious and criminal cabal ever to seize power in the United States. We simply cannot move on. Serious evidence of money laundering, tax evasion, bank and insurance fraud, racketeering, obstruction of justice, violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution and campaign finance violations remain, as well as serious questions concerning the intersection of private business dealings with subsequent alterations in U.S. foreign policy. There are, simply put, too many unanswered questions.

Currently, the prevailing wisdom is to move on. Concentrate on policy, report on the outrages in every department, the corruption, the policy changes. Perhaps. But the question remains: if impeachment and removal were not intended for tRUMP, then who?

No! It is a mistake to gloss this over. To gloss this over is to render this attempt at 'justice' as fake as Stormy Daniels' tits, to most, just as mesmerizing. It is, perhaps, the ultimate diminution. The fact that the Democrats have not passed a resolution in the House charging the Committee on the Judiciary to begin hearings regarding the possible impeachment of this swine is an outrage. It has been nearly three months and we have had only one public airing—that of Michael Cohen and two of the three appearances by tRUMP's former personal attorney have been in secret sessions. This simply won't do.

It is right and proper, as the House voted 430-0 last week to do, to make the report immediately available to the Congress. It is right and proper that the Congress—not the attorney general who was appointed for just this role—to then redact information regarding ongoing investigations and release as much as possible. It is then the responsibility of those we elected and who have taken the oath to defend and protect the constitution of this country to use the probe to begin full public hearings.

What the SCUM did with Clinton was take the report, draw up articles of impeachment and, without hearings, indict the president and put the question before the Senate. The experience drawn from the first full-blown experiment with impeachments conducted by the 'generation of swine' is that this pig's breakfast is not an acceptable outcome, and the conclusions drawn from the experience are just as erroneous.

No! We need full hearings. It was the hearings that produced John Dean. It was during an open Congressional hearing that Alexander Butterfield told the nation about the existence of the Nixon taping system. It was the hearings that fleshed out the details and it was the hearings that prepared the nation to remove the swine.

But the 'Boomers', the “Generation of Swine” learn nothing. Experience is powerless to instruct. If only they had done it right. If only now we do it right. If. Fucking. Only.

An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison.

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