Mueller Ain't What We Needed.....

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OK.  We have now heard the facts…..again.  Has it helped?  Not really.  Why?

Because the Democrats are a party without balls.  There is no way to stop Donald Trump unless the Democrats are willing to attack.  Until now they have only wrung their hands and waited hopelessly for the public to reach some sort of ‘awareness’ of what is actually going on.  That is never going to happen.

The hope of the Democrats that Mueller would be the movie star that would bring their movie version of his report to life was a myth.  We saw a Robert Mueller that was seriously diminished in his vitality, his acuity, his ability to push back and his grasp of his own report.  We now wonder if he was the right man for this job.  He is a man of the past and apparently had no awareness of the media environment that has passed him by.   Only someone with no perception of the effect of Fox News and MSNBC could be so unconcerned about how his presentation would play. His sense of duty and place in history is hampered by his timidity and quiet acquiescence to strictures placed on him by ruthless people only intent on his diminution. And more than that, he simply does not have, or will not express an opinion about anything.  Sad, because that is what we needed most.  Thanks Bob!

The Democrats simply are gutless in their avoidance of upholding their constitutional duty to provide oversight and employ the power of the instrument of impeachment, which is apparently the only way provided under our Constitution to deal with a President who is so criminally flawed. 

The Democrats have endlessly presented and repeated the facts of the Russian interference and the President’s efforts at obstruction of justice.  The facts are there.  Yesterday’s hearings, if nothing else, committed to the record and placed the facts again in the public record.  But to what end?  Pelosi is waiting for some miraculous epiphany on the part of the public before starting an impeachment inquiry. The Democrats appear scared to proceed with a formal impeachment inquiry.  What in God’s name are they afraid of at this point.

In the meantime, the Republicans completely ignore the facts.  Their fixation was on discrediting Mueller’s eligibility to conduct the investigation and to accuse him of dereliction of duty.  They are simply unconcerned about the fact that Russia massively affected our 2016 election; that they continue their interference; that the prospect for even more pervasive interference in the 2020 elections looms. Neither they, nor the President, have led any effort to protect us from further Russian attacks.  And what about the fact that Mitch McConnell blocked two efforts to bring protective election security legislation to a vote?  What can possibly be the Republican’s motive to do that?  Why would they not want increased protection against a proven fact of interference?  Are they secretly in league with our enemies, or are they just stupidly spiteful?

And as far as the President’s numerous actions of obstruction, Republicans are blind to it.  They all emphatically believe that this entire effort is simply a Democratic effort to bring down the President….a President who is so vile in so many ways, that in any other situation he would be vilified and shunned.  Republicans simply cannot see the egregious things this man is doing….or they are just protecting their own interests and are afraid of him.  A person who lies without compunction; who demeans and attacks all who oppose him; who is so grossly racist in his policies; should never have ascended to the Presidency.  Any yet, there he is….

We all should be in a state of despair.  Our country is in grave danger.  If the party of Trump, and Trump, are in control after November 2020, the United States of America will morph into a country never imagined, and certainly feared, by our founders.  The only remaining line of defense I can see at this point are the career people who are behind the lines.  They are doing all they can.  They know that Mueller’s warnings are real, and with the country’s leaders impotent or simply corrupt, we are set up for a coup by a foreign entity.  We have already experienced a soft coup with the ascendancy of Trump in 2016.  The election of 2020 will complete the takeover.  The damage, already pervasive, will be irreparable after 8 years and then it will be too late to save the United States of America.

The saddest moment for me the other day was a clip played incessantly of Trump talking to a group of young people in High School and in their first year of college.  The gathering was for the Teen Student Action Summit 2019, a conservative convention in Washington.  In a sneering, disrespectful voice he hammered yet again on the 4 Congresswomen he has been attacking for the past week and lied over and over again about how the Mueller investigation was a witch hunt and a coup attempt aimed specifically at him.  The tragedy of this is that these young people are the future of our country.  They are being programmed with this tripe over and over and will be affected by it for years to come.  This is our new normal, and it is a sad time for our country.’

The tragic reality is that our government is a fetid swamp populated by self-important liars, greedy cheats, racists and frightened pseudo-patriots who talk a good game but are incapable of anything resembling action.  They are more interested in taking their 6-week vacation/hiatus than saving our country.

To hell with them all.