Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Mueller Was Never Gonna Be Your Jesus

Robert Mueller's press remarks yesterday have left people nonplussed or desperately confused. It seems me that he - in his very careful way - said what non-Fox analysts have been saying.  Trump obstructed justice on levels we may never have seen before, but I can't charge him with a crime.  Left implied by unstated was that this must now be Congress's job.  He also resigned.  My question is whether that exempts him from Barr's oversight.  Could he now testify before the House as a private citizen?

I despair of the wailing on Twitter about Nancy Pelosi.  Pelosi is the most capable, fearless legislative leader of the 21st century.  She knows what she's doing, and I will bet the farm that she's slow rolling impeachment to bring it closer to the election. She wants the evidence of his crimes fresh in voters' minds.

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