July 25, 2019: It Won't Take Long, Dogeared Canards, Look In The Mirror

“It won't take long to forget ya

now that you've been gone
it'll be over by Christmas
no, it won't take long”
           -----The Rolling Stones “It Won't Take Long”

It didn't take long. No, it didn't take long for the ReSCUMlickans—here in the form of Congressman Doug Collins of Georgia—to issue his statement written before Mueller took his seat before the Congress to testify.

Collins presents us with the usual talking points, the dogeared canards that fill the airwaves of hate radio and faux news. “Yet these investigators didn't conclude that the president conspired or obstructed justice”(1) he tells us with a straight face.

The report makes no such determination, concluding, in fact, that first on the question of conspiracy, evidence was not conclusive because of the unavailability of witnesses (Russian and other foreign nationals beyond the reach of the FBI), destroyed or encrypted documents and electronic messages, lying and misleading witnesses, and obstruction of justice impeded the completion of the investigation; and, secondly, that there were at least ten instances of obstruction of justice—all serious felonies—that could have been brought but that, according the Department of Justice guidelines, the Special Counsel could not indict the sitting president*. So the first part of that statement that the investigators exonerated the president* on the conspiracy charge is not true. The report as to conspiracy, citing ample evidence of over 140 contacts between the tRUMP campaign and Russian nationals while compelling is not as yet conclusive. The second phrase of the statement implying that he did not obstruct justice is a knowing lie.

Collins knows its a lie because he goes to great lengths to try to unravel the Gordian knot about the throat of this president*. He claims that Mueller inadvertently, or perhaps intentionally, violated the civil rights of the defendant—in this case the president*--by telling the nation that he could not exonerate him, pointing out that it is not in the power of a prosecuting attorney to exonerate anyone and that this violates the presumption of innocence inherent in American legal doctrine.

“Americans understand our democracy keeps government officials in check by maintaining that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. They understand it's fair and right that every American—including the president—be allowed to carry out their lives and work without being harassed by malicious allegations.” (2)

Collins is quite right about that, but quite wrong in his application. You see, if the president* cannot be indicted or, the indictment must take the form of articles of impeachment before he can be civilly indicted and put on trial, then the Special Counsel, as well as the country, are left with a conundrum. How does one cite the seriousness of the acts and the severity of the threat to the republic if one can only approach the line of indictment but not cross it? In no other American jurisprudence is this the case. Any other American would have been indicted, arraigned and put on trial for these felonies, a position underscored earlier this year by more than a thousand former United States Federal Attorney's who signed a statement saying as much. It is because the president* hides behind the skirts of his office—in effect out of the reach of civil authority—that the Special Counsel worded his report the way he did, telling the nation that if he could have exonerated the president* he would have. Collins and his colleagues cry foul, trying to make political hay with this, but I say let tRUMP come out from behind the skirts of his office and face the music, then we will apply the law. To put it another way, let him drop his unique exemption to the rule of law and we will apply the same rules we apply to everyone else; but as long as the administration insists that he stand above normal legal remedy, then normal procedure simply cannot apply. To do so would have nullified the investigation and entirely neutered its conclusions.

The last phrase of the Congressman's statement is equally troubling, echoing as it does tRUMP's charge of 'presidential* harassment'. Are we to take seriously the position that investigations are harassment and that the president* must be allowed to work without being harassed by malicious allegations? Are we to take that to mean that any allegations (for there is a lot of meat to the allegations facing Disgustus and his fetid administration), are malicious and that somehow the function of congress is to turn a blind eye and rubber-stamp everything blown out of the ass of this bloated clown? To take this statement seriously is to neuter the constitutional oversight responsibility exercised by every congress (except when McConnell and Ryan were in charge) in the history of the Republic.

But, I suppose, this is what happens when one elects and then consistently returns to office men who campaign denigrating the very institutions they inhabit. That every member of Congress is not taking to the ramparts to defend Congressional prerogatives is a testament to the rot that has eaten away at this republic. Congressman Collins, if you want to see the cancer that is eating at the heart of this republic, look in the mirror.

Collins then proceeds, as the parasite that he is, to tell the reader that the nation must move on from Mueller citing all the work he and his colleagues have accomplished or are working on—safeguarding the nation from election interference—among others—all Democratic initiatives as a way of minimizing the seriousness of the charges against tRUMP and distracting us from the task at hand. But he is right about one thing. It is time to move on from Mueller. It is time to drag the principals of this scandal before the nation to testify under oath and move to impeach the bastard.

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

Impeach and Imprison.

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1. Collins, Doug. “We're Ready to Move On From Mueller” The New York Times. Thursday, July 25, 2019. Page A25.
2. Ibid.