Draining the Swamp

ANDREW JOHNSON, barely literate but stubborn as a heifer in a horse pond, wanted to ge out from under the shadow of Lincoln, and drain the swamp, as we like to say today. He fired a cabinet member, having been told not to by Congress, and, under the "Tenure of Office Act", which was only in effect for twenty years, ran afoul of Congress, and Lincoln's ghost. A hundred years later "Trickie Dick" Nixon earned his appellation. He started fixing elections in college, if not earlier. Maintaining and utilizing a not so pro temp gang of "operatives", aka thugs, to do his dirty work while serving in the nation's highest office was a bit beyond the pale, as they used to say, so out he went. Clinton had sexual relations with his non wife, lied about it to a grand jury, got caught, and paid the partisan price. Trump has taken it to a whole 'nuther level. His offenses make the above three shady characters look sun shiny by comparison. Not only does he have the aforementioned gang of operatives, his seems to include over sixty million members. Not only has he fired a government employee without apparent just cause, he has fired enough people to fill every employment office west of the Appalachians. Not only has our current impeachable president been impeached, he has had more illicit sex with more women, lied about it more often, and to more people, than even "Slick Willie" can "lay" claim to, and that's goin' some, as some us us say. The only difference is that Don the Con has kept his pants appropriately arranged as president, but, again, who knows?arguably, lying to the three hundred and thirty five million member American people over fifteen thousand times in less than three years makes a single fib told to a twenty four member grand jury look little, and white. The emoluments clause, and Trump's nearly innumerable violations thereof, come to mind. To gain access to the president, simply sack out at his hotel which used to be a post office, right down Pennsylvania Avenue. Its no secret. Various and sundry investigations into financial matters are ongoing; Trump shut down Trump University, such as it was, and the Trump charitable foundation, which was really a personal bank account, just in the nick of time. Then, for the piece de resistance, the Ukraine, the facts of which are becoming better known by the day, notwithstanding the mass denial of them by Trump, Republican lawmakers, and a majority of the sixty million member mafia. To solicit political assistance from China on national television might be considered evidence. Chief of Staff Mulvaney's nationally televised press conference confirming the Ukrainian quid pro quo seems authoritative enough: Of course we did it. Get over it. Mulvaney must have missed the meeting, the memo, or both. Yes, we'll get over it, right about the time a flowing mass of orange hair is seen slinking from the District, and into the dustbin of ignominious history.