March 5, 2019: Turd In The Fan, Rodino As Our Guide, Where Shithouse Nixon Would Not Go

“As the House takes up congressional hearings, they will find a turd in the fan”

                  ----from The Quotations of Chairman Joe

Yesterday, congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and occupying the very seat upon which sat Peter Rodino all those years ago, announced a dragnet has been cast in an effort to drag from the depths all things tRUMP.

By some counts, there are currently 17 separate investigations, in various jurisdictions, by law enforcement agencies looking into the cesspool holding tRUMP's many nefarious operations. Investigations ranging from sedition with Russia, to real estate transactions, bank fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, racketeering, even into his inauguration as reports surface surrounding foreign interests seeking favor. Nothing tRUMP touches is not thereby soiled.

Nadler is quite right: Congress cannot wait for reports from the Mueller or the Southern District of New York, the people's business requires action. Moreover, if anything is to be done by way of removing this national embarrassment, groundwork is going to have to laid. It would be a mistake to repeat the Republican example of using the Special Prosecutor's report to launch, with no hearings, an impeachment. The country, not exposed to the full extent of the villainy, will balk. No, we all must understand that the Republicans always make a hash of things, it's in their constitution. Therefore, the experience must not be a guide and must not be repeated. Ergo: tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, impeachments. The Democrats have a much better example: their own. The man now sitting in the seat of Peter Rodino must use Rodino as our guide. We know how to do this, let's get on with it.

Nadler is not raring to impeach, noted The New York Times (1) in today's editorial. Indeed, Nadler has said as much on MSNBC and other interviews. But we must, he said, “begin building the public record.” Precisely.

Disgustus has reacted to both the probe itself and it's scope by attempting to dismiss it claiming the Democrats suffer from, among other ailments, “Collusion Delusion”. Here our erstwhile maximum leader imagines himself another Mohamed Ali. “But his core message is the same:” notes the Times, “the president is perfectly content to burn down the nation to save his own hide.” (2) And that, my friends, is somewhere even Richard Shithouse Nixon would not go.

Michael Cohen, wrapping up his testimony last week before the House Oversight Committee, warned that our Caesar Disgustus will not go quietly. You can depend upon it. And that's why these hearings are not only important, they are imperative. All truth is discovered alone. Each of us must, individually, reckon our Caesar's claims with the facts. Each of us, consulting our own conscience and judgment, must weigh the evidence and balance the testimonies. This is a process, a process that takes time.

Let the process begin, we all know—in our collective soul—where it will lead. let the shit fly.

The fate of the republic depends upon it.

“An Bre'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison.

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1. Editorial. “Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind” The New York Times. Tuesday, March 5, 2019: Page A26
2. Ibid