A little-known former Secretary of State published an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that is must-read for anyone looking for a North Star to guide us through the aftermath of the Mueller Report and into what looks likely to be Impeachment.
She starts out with the basics:
“Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. It documents a serious crime against the American people.”
Who does she think she is anyway, making such pronouncements? Well….
“I am also someone who, by a strange twist of fate, was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, as well as first lady during the impeachment process that began in 1998. And I was a senator for New York after 9/11, when Congress had to respond to an attack on our country. Each of these experiences offers important lessons for how we should proceed today.”
And then she lays out a plan. Here are a few highlights, but I encourage you to check out the full plan here: www.washingtonpost.com/…
- “What our country needs now is clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive partisanship”
- “Congress should hold substantive hearings that build on the Mueller report and fill in its gaps, not jump straight to an up-or-down vote on impeachment”
- “After 9/11, Congress established an independent, bipartisan commission to recommend steps that would help guard against future attacks. We need a similar commission today to help protect our elections. ”
- “[W]hile House Democrats pursue these efforts, they also should stay focused on the sensible agenda that voters demanded in the midterms, from protecting health care to investing in infrastructure.”
For anyone wavering about the House Democrats careful strategy thus far, she says this:
The [Watergate] televised hearings added to the factual record and, crucially, helped the public understand the facts in a way that no dense legal report could. Similar hearings with Mueller, former White House counsel Donald McGahn and other key witnesses could do the same today.
I’ve probably pushed fair use as far as it will go, so please, if you are looking for some strategy, or just some reassurance we are on the right track, check out the full article.
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UPDATE: I try to always *say their name* especially when it comes to female politicians who often do not get the credit they deserve for their work, or have to work twice as hard to get it. Thus, please let me update this to say that the unheralded author of the op-ed is Hillary Clinton. She’s got some books and stuff you should check out too, she’s pretty wonky. Glad she’s around right now to give us some perspective.