So the Election's over. And I, for one, am both happy and sad; happy it's finally done and I can stop seeing those interminable, inexorable and nauseating TV campaign commercials, and sad because it's over and my free entertainment has ended until 2220.
You see, old folks like me without enough to do enjoy early dining specials and freebie political entertainment. And now they'll continue with the BOGOs for din-din, plus the added enjoyment of seeing the flurry of subpoenas flying all around Washington, D.C. The Dems took back the House, you see. And that means they will now have all the power they need to launch all sorts of neato little investigations into the POTUS and all his suspected nefarious activities.
They'll try their best to obtain his tax returns. He will say "no," claiming it to be an intrusion into his Constitutional rights to privacy. They will subpoena. He will tell them to pound sand. It will go to the Higher Courts, including the Supremes, quite possibly, which could take a couple of years and $Millions in legal fees and about 7,000 hours of discussion and debate on the cable news channels.
They will also try to tie his increased personal wealth since becoming POTUS, if any, which is doubtful, to Russian diplomats lodging and breaking bread and quaffing vodka at his hotels. That would be a violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, if proven, an arcane, almost never utilized law from the 18th Century which forbids the POTUS from taking bribes or other payments from foreign gummints. Which he hasn't done. But that won't stop them. They are all wound up and ready to go with their impending onslaught of Donald J. Trump.
And they will do so, with a vigah! Just like they did when George W. lost the House in his second term and San Fran Nan Pelosi and her minions turned loose their hounds. Karl Rove just reported that the White House Legal Team needed to double in size back then to deal with all the static.
Sooooooooooooo, I hereby offer up that yesterday's events should surely result in nearly every lawyer who can fog a mirror anywhere near our Federal City will be employed full time on one side of this or the other to do battle; at $500 an hour. Up. Which we'll pay for. Now don't you feel better about divided government?
I call it the "Attorney's Full Employment Act of 2018."
If you're a D.C. lawyer and you don't yet drive a BMW, just wait; you will before the sun sets on 2019. Life will be grand for those Legal Eagles as we wind our way through myriad summons and subpoenas and lawsuits and hearings.
Not so grand for us, but reeeeely grand for them!
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