Posted on 02/12/2018 12:24:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Now that a consensus is beginning to emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller has the evidence to make a compelling case of obstruction of justice against President Trump, the president's defenders have trotted out a new defense: that obstruction on its own is a mere "procedural crime" that doesn't really count unless coupled with proof of guilt on an underlying crime.
In other words, defenders view the Mueller probe as akin to the Watergate investigation without the break-in. But this view is wholly untenable.
The legal version of the argument is, as explained by Rich Lowry in National Review, "if Trump didn't collude with Russia - or doesn't have some other criminal secret to hide - it's hard to see what his corrupt intent would be in an obstruction case."
Ultimately, the political argument is just a way to dress up the grim fact that the Republican majority seems indifferent to the strength and severity of the charges that Mueller is developing. Its sole allegiance is to the preservation of political control, to which end Republicans have embraced an embarrassing series of diversionary tactics and bogus defenses of the president. Indeed, there seems to be nothing Trump could do that would justify impeachment in Republicans' eyes.
Congressional Republicans are all in on defense of party over country. They are determined for temporary political gain to prop up a leader who is a rogue, a constitutional menace, and yes, a criminal no less than Nixon. They have lost all sense of constitutional duty. If they do not find a way to regain it, history will judge them harshly.
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Harry Litman is proof there are more horses’ azzes than horses.
Let’s turn this board into the Democratic Underground.
I read the whole piece and still have no idea what his legal argument is for a specific crime, except that he is hoping for obstruction.
However:
Ultimately, the political argument is just a way to dress up the grim fact that the Republican majority seems indifferent to the strength and severity of the charges that Mueller is developing. Its sole allegiance is to the preservation of political control, to which end Republicans have embraced an embarrassing series of diversionary tactics and bogus defenses of the president. Indeed, there seems to be nothing Trump could do that would justify impeachment in Republicans’ eyes.
Congressional Republicans are all in on defense of party over country. They are determined for temporary political gain to prop up a leader who is a rogue, a constitutional menace, and yes, a criminal no less than Nixon. They have lost all sense of constitutional duty. If they do not find a way to regain it, history will judge them harshly.
I give you Bill Clinton....
Exactly. Now he gets it. Buh-bye!
It really is unbelievable with these people. Here we are just a little over a year into Trump being President and that they very seldom (if ever) talk about anything but these nothing burger allegations of obstruction and these stupid and ridiculous comparisons with Nixon.
In only one place does it make sense.
The tide has started to turn with voters on who did what.
The MSM-DNC-Meda Matters can’t afford to let the message get to CA.
This opening line is completely unsubstantiated by facts, and the columnist goes downhill from there. All they have to go on is wishful thinking. You can't submit that as evidence in court.
This article doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Not legal, not logical. The “obstruction” meme was, what, something like 45 and then 120 days ago? I forget.
I’m not even going to explain why. Levin, Dershowitz, and Bongino have explained this multiple times, ad nauseum.
More nonsense from the CIA’s favorite propaganda outlet.
Nixon=Obama.
Anyway, how does one obstruct an investigation that should never have happened in the first place? Where was the probable cause? Where was and is the evidence of collusion. Is collusion even a crime?
The American People (excluding the leftists) see this for what it is, a coup d’etat. The MSM has seen the polls and knows it has lost the narrative. Now cometh the wish casting.
The city of San Francisco should consider handing out the San Fransisco Chronicle to the homeless to be used as poop mats. You know like Doggy mats. I hear the city has lots of poop in the streets and what better use for the SF Chronicle than that. Win/Win.
Good for a laugh. The author has a future at The Onion.
This is wishful fantasy by the communists. The president cannot obstruct justice because the president isbthe head of the justice department..nixon was never impeached for anything especially obstruction of justice. Justice was in fact obstructed in not prosecuting hillary for destruction of evidence. Thousands of violations of the espionage act snd recieving bribes from russians to sell them iranium .
Opinion: Keep WaPo journalists away from all tools beyond their meagre capability to understand.
Such as wedges, screwdrivers, etc.
Exactly where is that particular "consensus" emerging?
You buffoon history will judge you harshly.
Me neither, but this says it all:
“regularly appears as a commmentator (sic) on MSNBC and other outlets.”
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