“Never underestimate the ability of the Democrats
to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”.
----from The Quotations of Chairman
Joe
tRUMP secretary Hope Hicks was recently called to
testify before a House Committee. The hearing was held in secret
session behind closed doors!
Disgustus, one may recall, famously does not use emails
and Hicks was not only his conduit for passing messages handling his
business affairs in private life, but also served the same function
during the campaign and the first months of the presidency*. Hicks,
briefly, became the White House Communications Director. She was at
tRUMP's side as he forged a response as the infamous 'Trump Tower
meeting' became headline news. She was privy to nearly everything.
Yet here she is, testifying behind closed doors,
reportedly invoking fifth amendment protections even concerning where
her office in the White House was located. The nation needed to see
this stonewalling. It needed to see just how 'transparent' this
“administration” is. But it didn't.
Don't ever underestimate the ability of the Democrats to
snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The Democrats have wasted nearly a quarter of this
congressional session. It has been six months since Speaker Pelosi
has taken the Speaker's gavel. Yet in this time, only Michael Cohen
has been called to testify as a principle witness to the crimes of
this bastard president*,
Much has been made of the stonewalling of Congress as
tRUMP has issued a decree that the administration will not respond to
any subpoena of any witnesses, nor will it forward any documentary
evidence—not just about the ongoing Russian imbroglio, but about
anything. His Department of Justice openly declaring that it will not
prosecute the Attorney General, nor the Secretary of the Treasury for
failure to comply with congressional subpoenas. These are
impeachable offenses on the part of the cabinet officers as well as
the president*. Nevertheless, the House dawdles, telling the nation
that the House is seeking remedy in the courts.
The House does not need the courts. The House has the
power to force compliance. During Watergate, Senator Sam Irwin,
Chairman of the joint House and Senate committee on Watergate, wrote
the White House that failure to appear before the committee and/or
failure to provide requested documents would mean jail for those
obstructing the Congressional inquiry. No such ultimatum by the
House has as yet been forthcoming. Enforcement of House subpoenas
had, until the twentieth century, been done through the congressional
sergeant-at-arms. It has since been delegated to the Department of
Justice, but it remains a delegated power, one that the House
could and should immediately reclaim.
In this context, Attorney General Barr and Treasury
Secretary Mnuchin should be arrested by the sergeant-at-arms and
dragged before the committee and failure to testify—that is any
claims of 'executive privilege' should be cited as contempt
resulting in incarceration until the testimony and the information is
forthcoming. This especially applies when the question at hand
either deals with obstruction of justice or denying the congress
information concerning possible international conflicts of interest
as it pertains to tRUMP's finances. These are of compelling national
interest and demand jail time if information pertaining to them is
withheld.
Instead the Democrats are squandering their mandate,
frittering away the time, allowing Disgustus to continue his sordid
and corrupt ways.
Hicks, tRUMP jr, Flynn, Manafort, Sorsi, Conway,
Priebus, Bannon, Sater, Gates, Sessions, Whitaker, Barr, and host of
others should by now have been dragged before the kleig lights and
made to testify under oath. But no! We are six months into this
and, as the fate of the republic hangs in the balance, all we hear
are muffled murmurs.
From the Jaws of Victory.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”.
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