All dyed-in-the-wool football fans know what the “Hail Mary” is.
Your team is losing by three points or more, with just a few seconds left on the game clock, and you’re fifty yards or so from the end zone. You’ve pretty much lost the game; the opposing team players have big smiles, and the subs on the sidelines are high-fiving each other and patting butts. Someone is carrying the Gatorade cooler toward the coach.
But, in that last play, as time expires, the opposing quarterback lets fly a 60 yard rainbow “prayer” pass to the opponents end zone…
…where there are about a dozen guys jostling, kicking, biting, and elbowing as the pass drops toward them. And, then, miraculously, in the mad scrum that is taking place, the ball finds its way into the hands of the “good guys”…i.e. your team…who go from losers to winners in a split second.
Prayer answered: thank you, Jesus! (Uh, I mean Mary!)
That’s the Hail Mary Pass play…something concocted out of pure desperation. Nine times out of ten…it doesn’t work. But, when you have no hope, why not give it a shot?
In the tragicomic soap opera that the Trump presidency has become, the principals (the GOP and the President himself) have evidently decided that they need to employ the Hail Mary Pass in order to somehow save the day.
The long-rumored “secret” memo of Congressman Devin Nunes, a theory of political collusion based upon cherry-picked facts meant to smear the F.B.I. and to fit Special Counsel Robert Mueller with a pair of concrete boots…
was publicly released today on the authority President Trump…who is already being investigated for conspiring to impede the Russia-gate investigation.
Hail Mary Pass prediction: This desperate 2018 chicken-winged wobbler ain’t gonna make the end zone, Mr. Prez.
One wonders how it fell to Congressman Devin Nunes to carry the water for President Trump. Nunes is a lightweight California Republican who represents agricultural interests in the San Joaquin Valley, and his only claim to fame is his previous attempt to run interference for Mr. Trump on a bogus “unmasking” issue regarding the 2016 campaign.
I’m guessing that Nunes stepped up to the plate because no other GOP official wanted to expose himself to such shame. He’s an opportunist; maybe his loyalty to the Prez will earn him a Cabinet position?
The Hail Mary Pass that he’s throwing on behalf of Donald Trump may, simultaneously, be a desperation ploy for upward mobility. Because, Republicans with power in California are as rare as hen’s teeth.
Anyway, the Nunes memo, approved by Republican-only members of the House Intelligence Committee (there’s an oxymoron!) doesn’t seem to be much of a “smoking gun” for malfeasance or worse by FBI brass. There’s a lot missing, which the Democratic members of the Committee would like to point out, but the Chairman (Nunes) has forbidden the Dem committee members from publicly commenting. This is a sure sign that the memo is a lame, desperate ploy.
That the once-proud party of Lincoln would stoop this low to protect a scumbag like Donald Trump is extremely disappointing. During the primary campaign, many respected candidates and former President Bush actually called him scumbag, or worse. Now, the GOP establishment is colluding to obstruct justice on his behalf. They should be ashamed…but aren’t.
And, so, it will fall on the Press, poring over the memo with former intelligence operatives, to determine if the thing has any credibility whatsoever or is simply the smokescreen that it appears.
Fox News will trumpet the thing as the Holy Grail of unveiled secret proof that the Deep State is alive and well…
…and the professional journalistic world will, eventually, poke holes in it where the facts and logic are thin.
This should take place within the next few days.
Meanwhile, Mueller’s posse is sure to be energized by the Hail Mary futility of the memo…it almost surely tell them that they’re on the right track.
As evidence of the disaster about to unfold in 2018, a record number of Republican Congressmen have decided not to run for re-election come this November. And, scores of Trump Administration appointees have resigned to seek other opportunities.
Meanwhile, now that the President has his perceived “proof” of the conspiracy against him, when can we expect him to start chopping off heads over at the FBI?
Well, for Trump, it’s 4th down, his team is is desperation mode, the Special Counsel’s forces are coming hard, so…in typical Trump fashion, he’ll probably shove all of his chips to the center of the table…and go boom or bust.
Yep, it’s Hail Mary time again. He’s limbering up his arm…
This week is my guess.
And, then, we have another constitutional crisis, just like Watergate.
And we know how that ended.