Forget Mueller – Impeach!

Remember when Robert Muelller was looked upon as the savior-in-waiting for America? Remember what happened  – nobody read his 400-page report, Trump claimed it exonerated him, and AG Bill Barr went on a lying spree to back Trump's claim up.

America was  rightfully confused – and certainly not saved. Now Mueller is going to testify before Congress and if anyone thinks it is going to change anything, they are hopelessly romantic and/or desperate.

Sadly, Robert Mueller is a gentleman when these tilted, frenzied times call for a bare-knuckle brawler who will go head-to-head with Trump, calling every lie a lie and telling the American public that, yes, this moral cretin stole the presidency with the help of Vladimir Putin and is running America off the cliff of racist doom.

But Bob Mueller doesn't roll that way. When you think of Mueller words like “rectitude,” and “principled” come to mind, which is the kind of person needed in normal times to call Donald Trump to account. In case anyone hasn't noticed these are not normal times – normal times don't have kids in cages and the president spewing racist lies by the mouthful.

Gentleman Bob Mueller is going to go before Congress and do the legal language two-step, not telling his inquisitors any more – or less, hopefully – than is in his report. He is going to catch hell from the Republicans on those committees and will bob and weave and basically tell them to read the report, which is like asking a blind man to do brain surgery.

Of course, Mueller's testimony is going to be “great television,” but when the smoke clears that's all it will be and Trump will continue on his merrily lying way. There will be no Republican epiphanies, folks, but rather the same disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution that has become Trump's brand and the Republican cancer.

The Mueller Report does do one important thing, though: it provides a working guideline for Trump's impeachment. It's all there. Read it. Mueller is somehow bound by an obscure DOJ memo that posits that a sitting president can't be indicted. It is pure bullshit but it is DOJ bullshit and somehow sacred to a principled public servant like Bob Mueller.

Yes, an impeachment trial in the Republican Senate would never convict Trump of his obvious acts of treason. Yet it would go on the historical record that such a trial actually happened and Trump's presidency would always have that dark stigma on its totally egregious record. 

Another consequence of an impeachment trial would be a demonstration to the undecided American voter that, yes, the president is a traitor and that he should be voted out of office and tried and convicted as a civilian of all the crimes he has committed in his outlaw reign. 

When the book of history is opened, there must be a record that Donald Trump was at least tried for his crimes, that Nancy Pelosi, however tardy, finally did her Constitutional duty in bringing this monster to trial.

It would certainly add a new dimension to the current Democratic rat race for the presidential nomination.