TO MY DEMOCRATIC PARTY “LEADERS”[?]* IN CONGRESS:
Democratic Party “leaders,” what follows is well-known to you- yet thus far you have utterly failed to stand in front of the nation to explain to the people the truth. Consider this a CALL TO ACTION- namely, a demand that you do just that, stand up to President Trump and stand in front of the nation to tell the truth so that the people will be shown that Trump's lies are just that- lies that must be resolutely rejected :
IT IS AN UNDENIABLE FACT THAT THIS NATION IS BEING BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY THE MOST AMORAL, UNPRINCIPLED, NARCISSISTIC, CHILDISH AND PERPETUALLY LYING POTUS IN HISTORY!! AND, AS OUR NATION’S TOP LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS [LEAD BY AN EMINENTLY-RESPECTED REPUBLICAN SPECIAL PROSECUTOR] INVESTIGATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH TRUMP MAY HAVE BEEN AIDED, IN WINNING THE 2016 ELECTION, BY THE RUSSIANS AND/OR OTHER NATIONS, INCLUDING WHETHER HE AND HIS CAMPAIGN CONSPIRED [NOT “COLLUDED,” AS THAT IS A MIS-APPLIED WORD] WITH FOREIGN FORCES TO STEAL THE PRESIDENCY, THOSE RESPECTED AND HISTORICALLY NON-POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ARE UNDER THE MOST VICIOUS, RELENTLESS AND UNDESERVED ASSAULT, ACCUSED OF BEING A CRIMINAL “DEEP STATE” CONSPIRACY TRYING TO HARM TRUMP AND HAVING ACTED IN 2016 WITH THE INTENT OF DAMAGING TRUMP’S PRESIDETIAL CAMPAIGN.
OF COURSE, HERE ON PLANET EARTH THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE. NAMELY, THE FBI HAD GENUINE & EVIDENCE-BASED CONCERNS THAT RUSSIA WAS POSSIBLY INFILTRATING TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO LATER BLACKMAIL A PRESIDENT TRUMP AND/OR THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN MIGHT BE PURPOSEFULLY WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS. AN AMERICAN EDUCATOR, WORKING IN THE UK, HAD OBSERVED PERSONS HE KNEW TO BE RUSSIANS, WITH POSSIBLE TIES TO VLADIMIR PUTIN, IN THE COMPANY OF TRUMP-CAMPAIGN AIDS AND HE REPORTED HIS CONCERNS TO THE FBI, WHICH APPARENTLY USED HIM AS A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT [CI] IN THE TYPICAL WAYS THAT SUCH "ASSETS" ARE UTILIZED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT THE NATION AND THE WORLD. AND IT IS ALSO FACT THAT THE FBI’S CONCERNS [AT LEAST AS TO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE] WERE LATER BORNE OUT AS TRUE, WHICH WAS THE CONCLUSION OF ALL 17 U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, AS OF THE TRUMP INAUGURATION, AND THE ACCURACY OF THAT ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY TRUMP’S OWN INTELLIGENCE APPOINTEES AND BY THE REPUBLICAN-LEAD SENATE INTELLGENCE COMMITTEE. YET, AS THE FBI WAS TRYING TO INVESTIGATE THESE CONCERNS, IN REALTIME DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN, IT PROTECTED TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN BY BEING ENTIRELY DISCREET AND NOT EVEN TELLING THE PUBLIC OF THE INVESTIGATION. THUS, WHILE MUCH OF THE ELECTORATE WAS FURROWING ITS BROWS AND GLANCING SIDEWAYS AT HILLARY CLINTON BASED UPON THE NEWS THAT THE FBI WAS INVESTIGATING HER POTENTIALLY-UNLAWFUL USE OF A PRIVATE E-MAIL SERVER, THE PUBLIC WAS NOT AWARE OF FBI’S CONCURRENT INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
DESPITE THESE FACTS, AND CLEARLY AIDED BY DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS’ FAILURE TO TELL THESE FACTS TO THE NATION, TRUMP IS NOW USING OUTRIGHT LIES, BY TWISTING INFORMATION AS IS HIS HISTORICAL “SOP,” USING THE PLAYBOOK HE LEARNED AT THE KNEE OF THE NOTORIOUS ATTORNEY, ROY COHN [JOSEPH MCCARTHY'S INFAMOUS LAWYER], WHO ALWAYS PREACHED [AND PRACTICED] DEFENDING BY VISCIOUSLY, AND USUALLY TOTALLY-FALSELY, ATTACKING ONE’S ACCUSER AND ANYONE HELPING THEM AND “TURNING THE TABLES” BY ACCUSING THEM OF THAT AGAINST WHICH YOU ARE DEFENDING. TYPICALLY THESE TACTICS ARE UTILIZED BY AUTOCRATS - HITLER, IN FACT, ACTUALLY STARTED WW2 WITH A BIG LIE, TO WIT: ON SEPT. 1, 1939, GERMAN SOLDIERS, DRESSED N THE UNIFORMS WORN BY THE POLISH ARMY, DESTROYED A GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, JUST INSIDE GERMANY NEAR THE POLISH BORDER. HITLER THEN ACCUSED THE POLES OF ATTACKING GERMANY AND IMMEDIATELY GERMAN TROOPS ENTERED POLAND. THAT WAS HOW HOSTILITIES WERE MANUFACTURED BY HITLER TO START THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY-- LIES EXPERTLY DISGUISED AS THE TRUTH!!
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT TRUMP, AS POTUS, HAS USED PHYSICAL FORCE OR INTIMIDATION AGAINST ACCUSERS, ALTHOUGH HE DIRECTLY INCITED AN ASSAULT ON A PEACEFUL PROTESTER AT ONE OF HIS CAMAIGN RALLIES, CALLING OUT FOR WILLING SUPPORTERS TO BEAT-UP THE PROTESTER AND OFFERING- FOR ALL TO HEAR-- TO PAY THE ATTACKERS’ LEGAL BILLS. SUCH A DISGUSTING DISPLAY SHOULD HAVE RESULTED IN AN INDICTMENT BUT, INSTEAD, IT EARNED THIS SADISTIC SOB EVEN MORE SUPPORT AND ONLY MILD, WIMPY OBJECTIONS FROM THE MEDIA AND OTHER POLITICIANS.
USING THESE OUTLANDISH, THUGGISH TACTICS HAS TRUMP NOW ACCUSING THE DOJ OF HAVING INFILTRATED HIS CAMPAIGN AS A POLITICAL PLOY TO HARM HIM AND KEEP HIM FROM WINNNG THE ELECTION. HE TWEETED THAT “SPYGATE” WOULD BE THE WORST SCANDAL IN HISTORY, THEN STATED VERBALLY, YESTERDAY, THAT “YOU [REFERRING TO THE MEDIA] ARE TALKING ABOUT ‘SPYGATE’,” WHICH WAS YET ANOTHER OUTRAGEOUS LIE AS NO ACTUAL JOURNALIST IS SAYING THAT WORD AS IF IT IS A REAL THING- BUT THAT IS YET ANOTHER GLIMPSE INTO THE DONALD “MAYTAG” TRUMP SPIN MACHINE AS NOBODY OTHER THAN TRUMP, AND PERHAPS HIS MUSES ON “BOZO’S CIRCUS” AKA “FOX & FRIENDS,” IS PEDDLING THIS GARBAGE. AS TO LIFE HERE ON EARTH, ONCE AGAIN TRUMP COULDN’T BE MORE WRONG IF HIS FACE WERE ON BACKWARDS. AND EVERY THINKING PERSON KNOWS IT!! YET MORE AND MORE REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENT VOTERS ARE LIKELY TO BELIEVE THIS RUBBISH BECAUSE TRUMP USES THE HITLER/GOEBBELS [HITLER’S MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA] TACTIC WHICH IS BASED UPON JOSEPH GOEBBELS’ OFT- QUOTED AXIOM: “A LIE TOLD ONCE REMAINS A LIE BUT A LIE TOLD A THOUSAND TIMES BECOMES THE TRUTH.” GOEBBELS ALSO SAID: “ THE BIGGER THE LIE, THE MORE IT WILL BE BELIEVED.”
THE REPUBLICANS ON THE HILL ARE TOO SCARED TO TELL THE TRUTH TO THE NATION BECAUSE THEY FEAR BEING “PRIMARIED” BY TRUMP VOTERS AND THEY VALUE REMAINING IN OFFICE AS A CAREER MORE THAN THEY GIVE A DAMN ABOUT RESPONSIBLY GOVERNING AND DOING WHAT IN THEIR HEARTS THEY KNOW TO BE RIGHT. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER & OVER THAT MANY REPUBLICANS ON THE HILL ARE PRIVATELY APPALLED AT WHAT TRUMP HAS BEEN DOING BUT THEY ARE AFRAID TO SAY SO PUBLICALLY AS THEY FEAR THE WRATH OF HIS VOTERS. OF COURSE, GOD FORBID THESE REPUBLICANS WOULD, INSTEAD OF VIOLATING THEIR OWN PRINCIPLES FOR THE SAKE OF EXPEDIENCY, INSTEAD SIT DOWN WITH THEIR LOCAL CONSTITUENTS AND TELL/SHOW THEM THE TRUTH- NAMELY THAT TRUMP LIED TO HIS SUPPORTERS TO GET THEIR VOTES AND THAT HE IS HARMING BOTH THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND THOSE OF THE NATION. OF COURSE, FOR REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS TO DO SUCH A THING, PARTICULARLY IN A WELL-COORDINATED AND EFFECTIVE WAY [AND EN MASSE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF “STRENGTH IN NUMBERS”], WOULD REQUIRE SOME GUTS, SOME INTESTINAL FORTITUDE- YA KNOW, THE KIND OF TRAITS FOUND IN REAL LEADERS. SILLY ME. TALK ABOUT A MESSED -UP SYSTEM!! MICHAEL DOUGLAS, PLAYING THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT ANDREW SHEPPARD IN THE 1995 MOTION PICTURE, “THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT,” CALLED ATTENTION TO THIS SYSTEMIC DEFECT WHEN, IN A WHITE HOUSE DAILY BRIEFING, HE UNEXPECTEDLY STEPPED TO THE PODIUM AND STATED, IN CONFESSING HIS WRONG-HEADED APPROACH TO ATTEMPTING TO PASS SPECIFIC LEGISLATION DURING HIS FIRST TERM IN OFFICE: “I WAS SO BUSY TRYING TO KEEP MY JOB THAT I FORGOT TO DO MY JOB.”
MEANWHILE, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE TOTAL WIMPS WHERE TRUMP IS CONCERNED, THE SUPPOSEDLY-OUTRAGED DEMOCRATS REMAIN VIRTUALLY SILENT SAVE FOR APPEARING ON FRIENDLY CABLE NEWS SHOWS, WHICH KEEPS THEM FROM BEING HEARD BY ANY BUT THOSE LIKE MYSELF. BUT REPUBLICANS AND MANY INDEPENDENTS ARE NOT BEING TOLD THE TRUTH. THUS, THE DEMOCRATS ARE-EVERY DAY & NIGHT- LETTING TRUMP LIE, LIE AND LIE SOME MORE, AND ALTER PUBLIC OPINION, SINCE NOBODY IS OPENLY & VOCIFEROUSLY STANDING UP TO THIS SICK, MORALLY-BANKRUPT BULLY. THIS IS PURE INSANITY AND THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO PUT AN END TO IT RIGHT NOW AND WITHOUT CONCERN ABOUT SUPPOSEDLY BEING CRITICIZED FOR POLITICIZING THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION.
TRUMP IS THE ONE WHO IS UNABASHEDLY POLITICIZING THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION. ROBERT MUELLER IS, WITHOUT QUESTION, ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY-RESPECTED PROSECUTORS IN THE NATION AND I’D BET THAT THERE IS MORE INTEGRITY IN MUELLER’S DISCARDED TOENAIL CLIPPINGS THAN TRUMP HAS IN HIS ENTIRE BODY. YET, WHILE THE DEMOCRATS SIT IDLY BY, TRUMP AND HIS MYRMIDONS ENGAGE IN A 24/7 SALVO ON REPUBLICAN MUELLER’S CREDIBILITY- BASED UPON LIES, HALF-TRUTHS [TRUMP COUNTERS THE ARGUMENT THAT MUELLER IS A FELLOW REPUBLICAN BY STATING THAT IT MEANS NOTHING BECAUSE MUELLER WORKED UNDER OBAMA. JUST MORE INSANITY PEDDLED AS BEING WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION], RE-WRITTEN HISTORIES AND MOSTLY PEDDLED BY FOX AS PART OF ITS NON-STOP TRUMP-PROPAGENDA MACHINE. THESE ATTACKS HAVE ALMOST ¾ OF ALL REPUBLICANS LITERALLY PARROTING TRUMP’S STATED ASSERTION THAT THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION IS A “WITCH HUNT.” IN FACT, MOST REPUBLICANS ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION HAS NOT TURNED UP ANY RESULTS, DESPITE NUMEROUS INDICTMENTS, GUILTY PLEAS AND WHAT IS ALREADY SEEN PUBLICALLY AS MULTIPLE MEETINGS BETWEEN TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICALS AND INFLUENTIAL RUSSIANS. WHEN TRUMP’S LIES GO LARGELY UNCHALLENGED TO THE BULK OF THE POPULACE, HE REALLY MAKES A LOT OF HEADWAY CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT UP IS DOWN.
WHILE THE NATION AWAITS THE RESULTS OF THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION, DEMOCRATS ABSOLUTELY MUST STAND RESOLUTE IN LOUDLY AND ACCURATELY OPPOSING THIS SICKENING ASSAULT ON OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, ITS FOUNDATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR COUNTLESS THOUSANDS OF HARD-WORKING, UNFLINCHINGLY-DEDICATED PROFESSIONALS- MANY OF WHOM RISK THEIR LIVES EVERY DAY TO PROTECT THIS NATION AND ITS CITIZENS. IN THE FACE OF THE TOTALLY-UNJUSTIFIED ATTACKS BEING LAUNCHED BY, AND ON BEHALF OF, DONALD TRUMP, THE ONLY BEDROCK WE HAVE IS “THE TRUTH,” ALONG WITH OUR VOICES USED IN THE SERVICE OF TELLING THAT TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE. THE DEMOCRATS MUST ABSOLUTELY NOT BE AFRAID TO GRAB HOLD OF THAT BEDROCK AND SPEAK THE TRUTH -NOW, LOUDLY AND TO THE ENTIRE NATION.
WHAT ARE THE DEMS WORRIED ABOUT!? HOW COULD THINGS BE WORSE BY TELLING THE TRUTH TO THE NATION? IT’S BAD ENOUGH FOR TRUMP TO LIE HIS ASS OFF, DAY AFTER DAY, WITHOUT ANY REGARD FOR THE UNQUESTIONABLY-SEVERE HARM HIS IS INFLICTING ON THE NATION, BUT WHEN THOSE LIES CAUSE THE DEMOCRATS TO ACTUALLY FEAR TELLNG THE TRUTH—WOW!! WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE, FOLKS!!! HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM THE RIGHT TO GOVERN, TO MAKE DECISIONS AFFECTING THE LIVES OF OTHERS, IF ONE CANNOT STAND UP TO A SICK LOWLIFE LIKE DONALD TRUMP!!? HOW CAN WE AMERICANS HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ABILITY TO STAND UP TO A KNOWLEDGEABLE, CLEVER AND RUTHLESS DESPOT LIKE PUTIN, OR THE HIGHLY-INTELLIGENT AND VISIONARY PLANNERS LIKE THE CHINESE LEADERS, IF YOU CAN’T, OR WON’T, STAND UP TO THE COMPLETELY IGNORANT AND CHILDISH DONALD TRUMP?
TODAY’S NEWS REQUIRES URGENT ACTION! TO THE DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL-- AS YOU KNOW, [ALTHOUGH MANY IN THE NATION MAY NOT KNOW THANKS TO YOUR SILENCE], AT THIS VERY MOMENT THERE IS A SECRET MEETING TAKING PLACE BETWEEN ROB ROSENSTEIN [WHOM, PARTLY THROUGH THE “SILENCE OF THE DEMS,” HAS BEEN PLACED IN A TERRIBLY-PRECARIOUS POSITION], ALONG WITH INTEL REPS AND JOHN KELLY, TRUMP’S CHIEF OF STAFF. AND IN THAT SECRET MEETING-- APPARENTLY BEING HELD FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF SHOWING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION REGARDING THE CI THAT THE FBI USED IN 2016 [POSSIBLY EVEN “OUTING” THAT CI AND EXPOSING HIM TO GOD-KNOWS-WHAT] , AND POSSIBLY MUCH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FBI’S INVESTIGATION — THE ONLY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PRESENT ARE TWO REPUBLICANS, DEVIN NUNES [CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE] AND TREY GOWDY [CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE] WITH NO DEMOCRATS BEING PERMITTED!! WOW!! TALK ABOUT COMPROMISING THE INTEGRITY OF THE DOJ, THE FBI, THE CONGRESS AND THE VERY INVESTIGATION[S] INTO TRUMP AND THE RUSSIANS!! IT’S GOING ON AT THIS VERY MOMENT.
THE FACT THAT THERE WILL BE A SECOND MEETING IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER, ATTENDED BY THE SO-CALLED “GANG OF EIGHT” SENATORS [ WHICH IS COMPRISED OF FOUR DEMOCRATS-- DICK DURBIN, CHUCK SCHUMER, MICHAEL BENNET AND BOB MENENDEZ ALONG WITH FOUR RELATIVELY- MODERATE REPUBLICAN SENATORS- MARCO RUBIO, LINDSEY GRAHAM, JEFF FLAKE AND JOHN MCCAIN] IN NO WAY ALTERS THE FACT THAT TRUMP’S LIES AND BLUSTER, BACKED BY FULL-THROATED SUPPORT FROM DEVIN NUNES AND MARK MEADOWS, HAS FORCED ROB ROSENSTEIN TO COMPROMISE THE INTEGRITY OF THE DOJ. WE MAY EVEN COME TO LEARN THAT TRUMP WILL BE GIVEN SPECIAL INSIGHT INTO THE INVESTIGATION’S PARAMETERS, STRATEGIES, METHODS AND UP-TO-DATE RESULTS, BECAUSE WHATEVER DEVIN NUNES IS TOLD OR SHOWN WILL BE SURELY BE TURNED OVER TO TRUMP WITH DUE DISPATCH - THAT IS,UNLESS NUNES IS WIRED SO THAT TRUMP IS DIRECTLY LISTENING TO THE BRIEFING IN REAL TIME, WHCH WOULD SURPRISE ME ABOUT AS MUCH AS SEEING THE SUN SET IN THE WEST.
TODAY’S EVENTS FEEL UNPRECEDENTED, PERHAPS A FIRST IN AMERICAN HISTORY- BUT, WHETHER OR NOT A FIRST OF ITS KIND, THAT THE DOJ WOULD BE SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION WITH A POTENTIAL TARGET/WITNESS [NUNES] AND KNOWING THAT INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN TO THE TARGET NAMED TRUMP IS HUGELY-EMBARRASSING FOR AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT- AND POTENTIALLY QUITE DAMAGING FOR OUR NATION’S SECURITY. WHO IS GOING TO WANT TO ASSIST LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CATCH A TERRORIST OR BREAK UP A PLOT TO ATTACKJ OUR NATION, OR OUR CITIZENS OR MILITARY OVERSEAS, IF THEY NOW FEAR THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT CANNOT GUARANTEE THEIR ANONYMITY? ANSWER: NO ONE! WE MAY SOON FIND OURSELVES ALONE IN THE WORLD IF WE CANNOT BE TRUSTED. AS LONG AS THE DEMOCRATS ALLOW TRUMP TO LIE FREELY, OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD, HENCE OUR SECURITY, IS BEING COMPROMISED MORE EVERY DAY.
PERHAPS — HAD THE DEMOCRATS IMMEDIATELY SHOUTED DOWN THIS “SPYGATE” NONSENSE STARTING ON DAY ONE—ROB ROSENSTEIN WOULD HAVE FELT ENOUGH SUPPORT SO AS TO TELL TRUMP, NUNES, ET AL TO GO F**K THEMSELVES WITH THEIR DEMANDS TO INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATION. PERHAPS THE NATION WOULD TELL TRUMP TO SHUT HIS LYNG PIE HOLE HAD THE DEMOCRATS EXPLAINED TO THE NATION JUST WHAT IS THE AUTHORITY, NATURE, EXTENT AND USES OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT — INCUDING THE FACT THAT, WHILE CONGRESS IS CERTAINLY AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT OVERSIGHT INTO AN INVESTIGATION, SUCH OVERSIGHT MAY ONLY TAKE PLACE AFTER THE INVESTIGATION IS CONCLUDED, BECAUSE OTHERWISE CONGRESS IS DIRECTLY INTERFERING WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION- WHICH IS, OF COURSE, TRUMP’S PRECISE INTENT AND HE SUCCEEDED, AT LEAST IN APRT [AND NOT PRESENTLY KNOWABLE] THANKS TO TREASONOUS DEVIN NUNES AND THE “SILENCE OF THE DEMS.”
FURTHER ON THE SECRET INTEL MEETING : WHAT ALMOST NOBODY IS DISCUSSING, AND CERTAINLY NOT THE DEMOCRATS, IS THAT DEVIN NUNES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE WITHIN 10 MILES OF ANYTHING REGARDING THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. NUNES WAS A PART OF THE TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM AND, THEREFORE, A POSSIBLE TARGET OF [OR WITNESS CONCERNNG] THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION. HAS ANYONE HEARD OF, OR [PERHAPS MORE APPROPRIATELY ASKED] DOES ANYONE GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”? YET NUNES WAS RECUSED FROM THE HOUSE INTEL’S OWN RUSSIA INVESTIGATION FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE ABOUT TEN MINUTES AND NOBODY- NOT THE FELLOW REPUBLICANS IN THE INTEL COMMITTEE, NOR ANY DEMS, AND OF COURSE NOT SPINELESS PAUL “JELLYFISH” RYAN- HAS ACTUALLY FORCED DEVIN NUNES TO EVEN PRETEND LIKE HE IS ANYTHING MORE INDEPENDENT THAN AN APPENDAGE OF DONALD TRUMP, NOT PART OF A CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, BUT A SPY AND ERRAND-BOY USED AT TRUMP’S BECK & CALL READY & QUITE HAPPY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. TODAY’S EVENTS ARE, WITHOUT A DOUBT, A GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. AS A LAWYER & MEDIATOR BUT — EVEN MORE SO- AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, I AM THOROUGHLY ASHAMED AT MY GOVERNMENT AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE SILENCE OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, OF WHICH I HAVE BEEN A PROUD AND LOYALLY-ACTIVE MEMBER SINCE I STUFFED ENVELOPES FOR EUGENE MCCARTHY WHILE I WAS A 5TH-GRADER IN GLENCOE, ILLINOIS. RIGHT NOW I ALMOST DON’T WANT TO ADMIT THAT- BUT MAYBE SOME DEMS WILL LISTEN TO US CITIZENS WHO DEMAND THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ACT LIKE ACTUAL LEADERS.
THEREFORE, TO THE DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL, I CLOSE BY ASKING: WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PUBLICALLY STAND UP AND SUPPORT THE DOJ AND INSIST THAT IT BE LEFT AS AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY TO DO ITS VITAL WORK FOR THE NATION!? ARE THE ABSOLUTELY - HORRIFIC GOINGS ON THIS WEEK- AND AT THIS VERY MOMENT ON MAY 24, 2018- ENOUGH OF AN ABOMINATION TO THE RULE OF LAW FOR YOU TO USE YOUR YOUR VOICES, AT A BANK OF MICROPHONES, EXPLAINING TO THE NATION THAT THIS IS NOT OK, THIS IS NOT HOW GOVERNMENT IN THIS REPUBLIC WORKS!!? IF NOT NOW, WHEN!?
REMEMBER, DEMOCRATS: IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE RIGHT. YOU MUST DO RIGHT. THAT’S WHAT MAKES LEADERSHIP- AND LEADERS.
NO, WAIT A MINUTE! I’M TIRED OF ASKING THE DEMOCRATS TO BE LEADERS. ON BEHALF OF NOT ONLY MYSELF BUT WHOMEVER ELSE IS SICK & TIRED OF THIS INSANITY, AND I’LL EVEN STATE IT USING SOME CHEST-THUMPING TRUMESE: I HEREBY DEMAND THAT THE DEMOCRATS ON THE HILL IMMEDIATELY STAND UP TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CONGRESSIONAL HENCHMEN AND, FURTHER, THAT THE DEMOCRATS TELL THE TRUTH TO THE ENTIRE NATION!
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* I have placed the term “leaders” in quotation marks, followed by a question mark, because I firmly believe that a “leader” is to be used only with regard to those who actually lead. Right now I find it very difficult to think of my Democratic Party officials as leaders, but I remain-for the immediate future, at least- hopeful that some of them will begin to act as though they understand the vital importance of what their leadership can mean to the welfare of the nation. For now, however, the proverbial “jury is out.”