“The Constitution don’t say that, and the privilege don’t exist.” — James J. Wells (Wilford Brimley), Absence of Malice, 1981
I’d like to make two points here:
- We seem to have something here that I would label the Permanent Office of the Inspector of the President. I was not aware that the Constitution allowed for something quite like that. If I were charged with developing a fitting analogy, it would go anti-matter is to matter as Anti-Executive Office is to Executive Office. For instance, most law-abiding, air breathing, property owning Americans would neither welcome nor deserve the arrival of an all-powerful anti-existence than would the President of the United States welcome or deserve the arrival of an anti-president. A key point here is that an anti-president exists and persists in spite of the total innocence and benevolence of a given president. He, the anti-president, exists only to destroy.
- The Warren Commission took only ten months to present its definitive report on who was responsible for assassinating a U.S. president, yet Robert Mueller has spun his racing slicks for well over a year in hot pursuit of some nebulous, mysterious force that is supposedly tantamount to a western hemisphere rendition of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. “Well, isn’t that special?” — The Church Lady