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For sure. The very structure of the Framers’ plan was a check on accumulating power. As history since 1913 has shown, the senate of the states was the keystone to free government. Pull it, and in time, the whole thing falls apart.

As our institutions currently exist, I have little confidence that Obama, Holder, Comey, . . . etc. will face justice.

So yes, I think you are on to something.

“I’m not confident at all that there will ever be a COS.”

Thanks for that small bit of reality, from post 25.

I believe in this comment number 31 you are talking about the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, which we both agree is key to restoring Constitutional Government. The seventeenth turned Senators from representing States, to Representatives of the People, when we already had sufficient Representatives of the people with two year terms. After 1913 and passage of the Progressive 17 Amendment, we had forced on the American people super representatives with six year terms and no one representing the interest of the States.

Repeal the Seventeenth and we just might have a shot at restoring Government more akin to what the Founders had in mind. In the mean time there are enough folks who don’t trust the COS approach to restoration of Constitutional governance that your statement in number 25 rings true.

South Dakota and Idaho both rejected the COS solution this Legislative Session.

The outside the beltway Special Counsel is our only hope. Whether through the State AGs, or Sessions or Trump, via EO, appoints a Special Counsel headed by say Joe diGenova or a Flyover country Judge, and, as part of the EO, orders that LEOs from the 29 Republican states form a Task Force and start real investigations.

They could be given security clearances and a green light to ‘invade’ the beltway and start the interviews, subpoenas and interrogatories, i.e., a real investigation of real suspects. Also, green light private detectives. As part of the EO, the Task Force would be funded the same way as Mueller's, taxpayer dollars.

When you combine all the legal, law enforcement and forensic talents of 29 states, that's a lot of competent people. I would love to be on that team. I bet a lot of people in flyover country would jump at the chance.