We cats are pleased that Eric Holder has decided not to run for President. First, because we don't want anything bad to happen to him. Second, we cheer on his efforts to lift the wretched GOP curse of gerrymandering, a much better use for his time and one that's a true service to our nation. And maybe most of all, the thought of living through nearly two years of teabagger screaming about "Fast & Furious" made us want to hack up a hairball.
Otherwise, the Democratic field continues to grow, which is A-okay with us. What a deep bench we have, even if we find one or two of the candidates objectionable. (We're hoping they crash and burn on their own before we have to waste pixels on them.)
We Democrats will need to get serious about 2020 soon, because it is past time to end the United States' alarming transition to autocracy. As the House Judiciary Committee's list today shows, the conspiracy of obstruction, corruption and abuses of power is broad and deep. It involves mysterious accountants (Allen Weisselberg), in-over-their-heads sons (Eric Trump), two-bit hacks (Jerome Corsi, Roger Stone), insidious traitors (Jared Kushner, K.T. McFarland, Michael Flynn and Michael Flynn Jr.), mercenary thugs (Erik Prince), fat goofballs (Sam Nunberg), and evil lobbyists (the National Rifle Association). In a simple catalog of 81 names, the scope of the Trump disaster is manifested in all its awfulness. (And yes, we know some names are missing.)
Judiciary's list is also a brutal indictment of the spineless collusion of House Republicans, who for two years sat on their asses and did nothing about any of this. Finally, under us Democrats, Congress is doing its job — oversight, checks and accountability.
Michael Cohen was right when he told GOP committee members last week, "I did the same thing that you’re doing now for 10
years...The more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did, blindly, are going to
suffer the same consequences that I’m suffering." Amen to that. We cats can't wait for that day, and we PURR.
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