Charles Pierce: Save the Republic. Impeach the President.
The Mueller Report Is a Challenge to Congress: Save the Republic. Impeach the President.
We surrendered it without firing a shot. Now the way forward is clear.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
APR 18, 2019
The results are in the report released by Robert Mueller and his investigators on Thursday. It is a document that shows clearly that every guardian of the republic—especially including the people themselves—surrendered it to an international criminal cabal without firing hardly a shot. Also in that report is a challenge: there is one last chance to avert the threat, and it lies with the United States Congress, and with the people who elected its members. Mueller has dropped it all in the country's lap. He did what he could.
Subpoena them all. Put them under oath and on television. Begin impeachment inquiries on Monday. (You can have the weekend. I'm generous.) Fumigate the entire government because, what we have now, and what Mueller illustrated, is the political equivalent of a plague cell. Fumigate it. Burn its furnishings. This administration is candida auris, the anti-bacterial superbug that The New York Times tells us is running amuck in hospitals.
The man at Mount Sinai died after 90 days in the hospital, but C. auris did not. Tests showed it was everywhere in his room, so invasive that the hospital needed special cleaning equipment and had to rip out some of the ceiling and floor tiles to eradicate it.“Everything was positive — the walls, the bed, the doors, the curtains, the phones, the sink, the whiteboard, the poles, the pump,” said Dr. Scott Lorin, the hospital’s president. “The mattress, the bed rails, the canister holes, the window shades, the ceiling, everything in the room was positive.”
That's the national government right now. Everything in it is positive.
There is no question that the president* is in deep contravention of his oath of office. He has not faithfully executed his office. He has not preserved, protected, or defended the Constitution of the United States. There is hardly a single one of the 400-odd pages on which cannot be found a violation of the constitutional oath.
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Mueller's diagnosis is clear and uncompromising. He has given us all the bad news at once and left the choice of treatment up to the patient. And, whether we have the stomach for it or not, it's time to take the painful cure. There is an ancient remedy that was asserted in 1974, by the late Barbara Jordan, Democrat of Texas, the last time the republic was as sick as it is today.
It is wrong, I suggest, it is a misreading of the Constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the President should be removed from office. The Constitution doesn't say that. The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the Legislature against and upon the encroachments of the Executive. The division between the two branches of the Legislature, the House and the Senate, assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge, the Framers of this Constitution were very astute. They did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person....
...James Madison again at the Constitutional Convention: "A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution." The Constitution charges the President with the task of taking care that the laws be faithfully executed, and yet the President has counseled his aides to commit perjury, willfully disregard the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, conceal surreptitious entry, attempt to compromise a federal judge, while publicly displaying his cooperation with the processes of criminal justice.
"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution."
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Loads of temper tantrums today, and also a lot of people who don’t seem to grasp how our govt functions.
But hey maybe if we stomp our feet hard enough that’ll fix it. 
They have to know how incredibly awful the incriminating information in this report is, but it seems not to matter. 
Yes, we said OUR PRESIDENT because yes, Barack was the President of All Americans but, he was especially the POTUS for African-Americans. This was a time that we never thought we would live to see. With that....
OUR PRESIDENT was:
-Harassed
-Belittled
-Hamstrung
-Lied On
-Disrespected
-Had His Family Harassed
-Could Not Visit His Family in Hawaii in Peace on CHRISTMAS and in DAMN SUMMER without it being "debated" about the "costs"
-Was told he could not wear a DAMN TAN SUIT!!
-Was told he could not PLAY GOLF EVERY NOW AND THEN (97 Days out of Eight FREAKING YEARS).
-Daughters could not make a teenage mistake w/o it being "National News".
-Had to take it all on HIS SHOULDERS about America's Killing of Young Black Men & Some Women -- when it was NOT his FAULT.
-Had to feel as if he COULD NOT DO DIRECT PROGRAMS for African-Americans -- who voted 97% for HIM in 2008 and 2012 (which is why he won the election the SECOND TIME).
-Had to CONSISTENTLY DEAL WITH BEING TOLD HE WAS NOT AN AMERICAN BORN IN HAWAII!!!!
-Could Not Even Have a DAMN BEER SUMMIT!!!
-And SO MUCH MORE SHIT!!!
Yet, this WHITE CRIMINAL, RACIST, LYING, POS named DONALD TRUMP can Gaslight not only African-Americans but nearly everyone who is not White, Racist and believe in the MAGA BS -- plus run our GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY to the Damn Ground but....
We Cannot IMPEACH HIM NANCY PELOSI???? Really Now??? 
We know he will likely NOT be REMOVED but IMPEACH HIM, NOW!!!
WE WANT ATONEMENT NOW --- For What Was Done To Our PRESIDENT - BARACK OBAMA!!
Period!!!!
