While shooting the bull over some coffee this morning with a friend of mine down in New Jersey, the subject fell to the Mueller report and the Democrats rejecting it. The subject of the conversation was what Nadler would do, and why he’s calling for the complete release of the Mueller report including all the background information, Etc.
anybody who’s been reading here lately knows full well that I’ve been calling for a full release of the report anyway because as I’ve been saying, the worst thing you can do to a Democrat is give them exactly what they ask for.
My friend, though, suggests that the reason that Nadler is calling for all of that is because he’s trying to satisfy the Democrat base who has spent the last two years screaming bloody murder that “there has to be something that Trump has done wrong so we can get rid of him. ”
He went on to suggest that if the leading Democrats even thought about accepting the idea that Donald Trump was on the up-and-up, they’d have a complete revolt on their hands.
My friend went on to say, “It’s like Mark Twain told us years ago… It’s a lot easier to fool somebody than it is to convince them that they’ve been fooled.”
Funny how he should use that quote given that I had used it here just a few short weeks ago. But he’s got a point, and I think it’s one that deserves serious consideration.
The one thing that bothers me about it all is the fact that eventually they’re going to figure out that what Meuller found and what is in the report including all the background material, is going to exonerate Trump as well. The political cost of the Democrats on that score is going to be nothing short of earth-shaking.
To which, he responded, “They’re never going to get what they’re asking for. And they know they’re not going to get what they’re asking for.” For proof, he pointed at the demands for the last 6 years of tax returns that came from house Democrats just this morning, which he suggested the Democrats aren’t going to get, either.
For the Democrats their current stance is a win-win situation. If they do manage to get something, anyting, that even slightly matches their Trump hatred, they can consider it a victory. If they don’t get anything that feels that particular bill, they can go on claiming that they’re being stonewalled. Either way, the base is satisfied. At least for now.
So, if we take my friends advice, what we’re seeing out of the Democrats now, is all for show, so as to keep their own necks out of the guillotine. It’s a thought that frankly hadn’t fully occurred to me before.
But you know I can’t look at that situation and not Wonder when the Democrats will be paying the price for years of lies and misdirections… and who will be pulling that rope.
Addendum, Eric
Roger Simon: [1]
Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is huffing and puffing away about his committee’s subpoena-in-waiting lest Attorney General William Barr not be sufficiently forthcoming about the details of the Mueller Report.
“But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials,” Nadler warned. “And if the department still refuses, then it should be up to a judge — not the president or his political appointee — to decide whether or not it is appropriate for the committee to review the complete record.”
Methinks the chairman doth protest too much. In other words, it’s all a charade for the faithful. He doesn’t really want to do anything. Likely Nadler is secretly praying Barr redacts the whole damn thing or ties things up in the courts for long enough for the investigation to disappear at least somewhat down the memory hole.
If you’ve been reading here the last two days you know Roger and I are on the same page with this thing.
The natural question will then be — what was all this for? Cui bono? A full airing of the report, what Nadler claims he wants, will instead “open the door,” as they say in court, more than ever for an investigation of why this probe was launched in the first place, by whom and for what reason. The results of that investigation will be quite scary, if not humiliating, for Democrats because they will lead close to, if not over, their highest doorstep — the portals of the Oval Office during the previous administration.
Over the next few months we will be seeing the fight of our political lives to keep that threshold from being crossed. The skirmish over the report is but a relatively tame preamble. Nadler has to be very careful not to anger Barr too much because the attorney general has within his control the ability to appoint a special counsel and make life miserable for the Democratic Party straight to the election of 2020 and beyond.
Personally, I’m hoping that he will. because when that happens, the justice department will actually live up to its name for the first time in over a decade.
Son of a dendum: Eric
A [2]
Now, Mueller has gone, his report having found no evidence of an election conspiracy. There is no longer a rallying cry of Trump-Russia collusion.
In other words, an investigation that for two years had reconciled the irreconcilable no longer serves as a source of Democratic unity.
And so….
To escape punishment, all of these players in the Russian collusion delusion may now begin to turn on one another after being so united in going after Donald Trump.
…and I think we’ve already seen that happening, in other areas of progressivism as I noted here [3] earlier today.