While Trump and the GOP are aggressively destroying our law-enforcement system, the careers of dedicated public servants, and the Congressional process, the Democratic leadership responds with--a limp warning. Specifically, that the firing of Rosenstein and Mueller "could precipitate a constitutional crisis."

Shouldn't that be "WOULD constitute a constitutional crisis," Senator Durbin?

In their Year of the Long Knives Trump and the GOP haven't been sitting idly by. They got Comey. They got Yates. They got McCabe. They have identified, publicly, out in the open. that their next targets are Rosenstein and Mueller. They've nuetered Sessions and Wray. They are arguing from the floors of Congress and in the media that being a Democrat and being a traitor are synonymous. They and Fox News have successfully engineered a steep drop in the public's faith in the FBI and the DOJ and convinced millions that Mueller's investigation--which they claimed to support a year ago--is dead on arrival. They have purposefully misinterpreted classified information and released it to the public to help Trump without allowing the release of any rebuttal. These people have no taste for governing, but when it comes to destroying government and the rule of law, they are working it.

The response by the Democrats in Congress has been to issue toothless statements of outrage, engineer a confused and squeamish government shutdown that lasted about two minutes, and to beg the Republicans to please release their memo, too.

Surely, at this point in the active war against our national system, with real bodies piling up and with 35% of the population being constantly whipped into a froth against our law enforcement agencies, Congressional Democrats should be making it crystal clear that firing either Rosenstein or Mueller will absolutely mean--no ifs, ands, or buts, no compromises--a complete legislative shutdown and the active mobilization of massive public protests. STAND FOR SOMETHING, DONKEYS! RESIST!