“Our Caesar Disgustus does not hold a candle to
Benedict Arnold. He has neither the courage nor the integrity.”
---from The Quotations of Chairman Joe
The Washington Post reported
this evening that investigators working for Robert Mueller are upset
over attorney general William Barr's characterizations of their report.
They are not only upset about the fashion in which our Caesar
Disgustus has further mischaracterized the findings as a “total
exoneration,” but the way “he and his allies began
wielding Barr's summary as a political cudgel to dismiss not just
Mueller's work but any future investigations into the president's
conduct.” (1)
The Post quoted
a source close to the investigation as saying “It was
more acute than Barr suggested. ” implying
that the content of the material is much more damaging—especially
concerning obstruction of justice, than Barr would have us believe.
The report is said to
be in the neighborhood of 400 pages in length with indices and other
appendages attached. The full report could well extend to several
hundred pages more. Further, as reported this evening on MSNBC, the
Mueller team had written summaries for each section of the report
that were carefully crafted so that they could be immediately
released to the Congress and the public. The team was dismayed to
find that Barr had stepped in and put his paws all over the
summaries, reducing them to a mere caricature of their content and
import.
Caesar Disgustus has
groused from the beginning that he needs his Roy Cohn—the mafia
attorney best known for creating the stench behind the Joe McCarthy
hearings. Disgustus is forever bellowing “where's my Roy Cohn”,
as he struggles to keep a finger in the dike and hold off inevitable
submersion. What he means, of course, is that he wants someone to
protect him—for protection he needs—from inevitable discovery,
prosecution and imprisonment. That's why he fired Jeff Sessions, and
that's why he hired William Barr.
Barr is proving himself
to be precisely the political hack that Disgustus will use to
obstruct the release of the findings and, hopefully, ward off
disaster. Barr had written, as a resume for the job, a 19 page
opinion in which he held that the president cannot inherently commit
obstruction of justice. It was this a priori reasoning
that led those involved in the investigation, according to some
commentators on MSNBC, to conclude that Barr simply imposed his
rather curious, singular and self-serving interpretations concerning
presidential power upon a document whose conclusions he knew the
president and the country—for different reasons—would find
repulsive.
Barr, as noted
previously in these columns, is good at this. It seems that this is
his calling in life. Previously he had penned the pardons of six
principles in the Iran-Contra Scandal, including former Defense
Secretary Weinberger and former national security adviser McFarlane.
With those pardons, the tragic story of high crimes in the
Reagan-Bush years were effectively put to rest.
The Democrats, and some
Republicans, are having none of it. Speaker Pelosi, whose chamber
voted 420-0 to release the report, is demanding the full release.
But Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell, both of whom recipients of
Russian campaign contributions, have prevented the Senate from taking
up and voting on the House resolution.
Let there be no
mistake: Barr is a political hack, the go-to guy to cover up the
mess. He has a lot of work to do.
As we speak, the
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is planning to supeanoa the
records and, perhaps, Barr, Mueller and all the rest. The chairman
of the House Ways and Means Committee, is making similar demands to
the IRS in order to get the tax returns of our Caesar Disgustus
before the Congress and the American people—and to find out if
there ever was an audit. Similarly, the House Intelligence and
Oversight Committees, because the nation needs to know if our
'president' is a crook.
Of course, we know he
is a crook. But we need to also plunge the level of involvement with
the Russians in the last campaign. We have to know if Disgustus is
'compromised', and to get to the bottom of this will require months
if not years of further examination.
We need to know why
Mueller did not indict tRUMP larvae for lying to Congress. We need
to know why the investigation stopped short of accusing the
'president' of obstruction. Was it because of lack of evidence or
did Mueller simply conclude that following DOJ guidelines he could
not indict a sitting president and so, as we did in Watergate, the
special council simply turned the evidence over to the House of
Representatives so that the House would indict—as they did with
Nixon—through articles of impeachment. This does not, exonerate
Disgustus.
And, Mueller may have
been reluctant to charge the 'president' with conspiracy against the
United States because the evidence—because of the obstruction of
justice—was not forthcoming. We don't know, we need to see the
report.
It has been observed in
these columns that, in the end, the best defense that Caesar
Disgustus can mount is that he is too stupid, too ignorant and too
incompetent to be a knowing Russian asset.
What the report
allegedly does say is that tRUMP and his campaign were manipulated by
a sophisticated foreign intelligence operation. Disgustus is,
therefore, not exonerated but merely reduced in stature from being a
full-blown traitor to being a simple stooge.
It makes sense.
Disgustus has not the courage to commit fully grown treason. No,
sgt. 'Bone Spurs' cannot be relied upon to do something so
courageous. It makes much more sense, in light of his personal
history, that he was simply manipulated; becoming not, like Benedict
Arnold, a champion of perdition but merely Putin's “useful
idiot.”
Let that sink in: our Caesar Disgustus does not hold a
candle to Benedict Arnold. He has neither courage nor the integrity.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”.
Impeach and Imprison
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- Parker, Ashley. Nakashima, Ellen Barrett, Devlin. Leonnig, Carol D. “Potentially damaging information in Mueller report ushers in new political fight” The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/potentially-damaging-information-in-mueller-report-ushers-in-new-political-fight/2019
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