Congress must unite to stop him – but will it?
Adam Schiff said a thing yesterday about Trump’s possible plans to fire Mueller.
It has become clear that President Trump believes that he has the power to fire anyone in government he chooses and for any reason, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller. That is not how the rule of law works, and Congress will not allow the President to so egregiously overstep his authority.
If President Trump were to try to replicate Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in addition to Mueller, Congress must unite to stop him – without respect to party, and for the sake of the nation.
Congress can defend our system of checks and balances by passing an independent counsel law that empowers an independent prosecutor to take over the Russia investigation and anything that arises from it. Such a law should allow for the reappointment of Bob Mueller, someone who has served Presidents of both parties and whom Democrats and Republicans have come to admire. We cannot allow the President to choose who will conduct this investigation or to interfere with its progress in any way.
I find that more unnerving than reassuring. Note that it doesn’t say Congress will unite to stop him – it says Congress must. Well, yeah, it must, but will it? It must do a lot of things, but it doesn’t.
It is being underlined every day that in reality the president has way too much absolute power and that the “checks and balances” are a fraud. It’s being constantly demonstrated that there are no checks and balances if the executive and Congress are both in the hands of the same party (and that party has no scruples or conscience or integrity). The truth is that Trump could fire Mueller and get away with it. The truth is that we don’t know that Republicans would join Democrats to stop him.
This country is a menace.
It isn’t so much that we don’t know if Republicans will join Democrats to stop him. It’s that we do know that Republicans won’t even try to stop him, don’t want to stop him, and will be delighted if the whole constitutional system collapses so long as their theocratic oligarchy takes its place.
*strangled sob*
Mike Pence has publicly mused about turning the USA into a christian theocracy. He wants a literal Republic of Gilead.
Which is why I feel that all the impeachment talk might fall in the category of be careful what you wish for.
I repeat that our best hope is for the left to quit eating its own and turn the Congress upside down in the next midterm. And not the spineless Dems that characterized the Dubya Congress; real true vertebrates, with complete skeletons, ready to stand up and fight against the seizure of power that the President has been doing for so long (both parties). Dems that wont’ think, oh, but we might want to do that when we have a Democratic president, but will realize that way lies madness (and Trump).