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“Our long national nightmare is
over” said President Gerald Ford during his Inaugural Address on August 9, 1974
right after President Richard Nixon resigned because of Watergate.
Little did President Ford know there would be at least 3 other big “national nightmares” to follow.
Watergate set the bar for every
independent counsel investigation of a sitting president. After all,
investigative journalism prevailed and a crooked president left office.
Since Watergate, however,
partisans who lost the last presidential election have sought to use the brass
knuckles of independent counsel statutes as “long national nightmares” hopefully
to force a sitting President of the other party to resign in shame just like
Nixon did.
Democrats really hoped the Walsh
Report on Iran-Contra would force President Reagan to resign. Republicans so
desperately wanted to force President Bill Clinton out of the White House they
passed articles of impeachment based on the Starr Report which focused on the
Monica Lewinsky affair, not on any reasonable definition of “treason” or even
“high crimes and misdemeanors” such as colluding with a foreign power by
selling secret nuclear war plans to Russia or China or something else of that
particular order and magnitude.
Hillary Clinton told her advisors
on election night to spin her loss on “Russian Collusion” and the willing media
complied. Democrats have hoped and prayed ever since that the Mueller Report would
force Donald Trump to do the perp walk out of the White House into the Rose
Garden in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs with full media coverage.
Using the power of the
independent counsel statutes is no way to adjudicate national presidential
elections. Special prosecutors have devolved into political hammers in search
of a nail.
There have been 29 special
prosecutors or “independent counsels” appointed since the founding of the
American Democratic Republic. Six occurred in the 184 years before Watergate in
1973.
Since Watergate, we have had 21
special prosecutor investigations. Bill Clinton was the target of 12 special
counsels all by himself.
Watergate turned out to be a legitimate
investigation that uncovered grave constitutional issues at hand. A sitting
President sought to use the power of our government to cover-up his role in the
burglary of the headquarters of his political opposition in the previous
campaign.
If you are a Democrat who is truly objective and
100% concerned about the abuse of power by any sitting President, you should
demand that a special prosecutor now be named to look into the role of the
Obama Administration and senior federal law enforcement officials starting Election
night, November 2016.
If there was any coordinated effort between the
Obama White House, the Hillary Clinton campaign, CIA Director John Brennan, NSA
Director James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey and functionaries such as Peter
Strzok to prevent the peaceful transition of power from President Obama to
President Trump after he duly won, then we have a massive constitutional crisis
that out-paces Watergate by a factor of 100.
No Democrat is asking for such an investigation.
They are not interested in “good government” when it comes to President Trump.
They just want to keep their base core partisan supporters engaged and enraged
so they will vote against Republicans in 2020.
The Founders had a brilliant idea for dealing with
malefactors in office: elections. If you don’t like the occupant of the White
House, you have 4 years to plot, plan and scheme to defeat him at the only
place we should be talking about, the ballot box.
Not the court system. Not in Congress. Not with a
special prosecutor.
Perhaps this will be the fourth and last “long
national nightmare” we will see in our lifetimes. It is time to put the
independent counsel option to rest forever.
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