No matter what your political persuasion, almost all members of the practicing political spectrum — even people who have odious right-wing ideas that create hurtful policies — all adhere to two meta-ideas:
1. We are a nation of laws, not of men.
and
2. The basis for all national law in this country is the constitution.
But Constitutional law — while specific — is not always so specific that grey areas arise that need to be settled. Hence the Constitution’s establishment of the courts as a third equal branch of government.
So, in the past, we had constitutional crises when a series of events precipitated a conflict between elements of the three branches of government that were so huge they looked like Democracy hung in the balance. Think Nixon, Special Prosecutor, Saturday Night Massacre.
OK.
We’ve been hearing that Trump firing Mueller would produce such a crisis. And that’s true, it probably would. We also have been hearing that this idiotic memo crafted by Nunes could do the same thing.
Here’s the thing: The Trump Administration has — from the beginning — completely flouted a good chunk of the Constitution. Never mind lying — the guy lies like a faucet. It’s the mix of incompetence and lack of knowledge and/or respect for those two premises mentioned above that are causing not just the Russia problem — but all of the problems he’s created. You take the oath of office, you swear to uphold all these laws. Right?
Laws like:
Government cannot support any one “official” religion (or oppose any of them either).
All Americans are created equal (and therefore bad behavior exhibited by Nazis does not come from all sides).
You can’t be President as a personal money-making endeavor
You don’t get to make everything that your White House does a secret
The people who work in the federal government do not necessarily work for you personally, and do not owe you any loyalty.
The co-equal branches of government do not have to do what the President says, and can — in fact — tell him what to do, and often.
Consequently, Trump is his own, walking Constitutional crisis. Everything I listed above is impeachable.
Now I’m willing to be that this “This Trump Thing With Trump and Rusher” is real, and probably is the biggest scandal in the history of our government. Certainly the circumstantial evidence is beyond overwhelming.
Certainly the obstruction of justice stuff alone is even more obvious.
But here’s the thing. Even without that, the guy is his own crisis. And the GOP is in on it — and one wonders where their breaking point is.
I’m betting on after they lose control in the mid-term elections. Then the good government, right ethics Republicans will be everywhere. But not until Trump’s own, personal Constitutional Crisis drags us down closer to the bottom.
I say #ReleaseTheConstitution!