OPINION - EDITORIAL

Mueller it over

THE MAN served his nation (again) without complaint and with due diligence. For two years he commanded such a tight ship that nary a single leak came from his office. And at last he concluded the Rusians aren’t our friends, but they failed to convince all the president’s men to collude with them.

But several Democrats on the national stage just aren’t ready to let go of the man they’d pinned all their hopes on for removing Donald Trump from office.

Now a committee in the House of Representatives has approved subpoenas to rip Robert Mueller’s full report from the Justice Department before redactions for classified information can be made.

Here’s more from the papers: “The committee voted 24-17 to give Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) permission to issue subpoenas to the Justice Department for the final report, its exhibits and any underlying evidence or materials prepared for Mueller’s investigation. Nadler has not yet said if he’ll send the subpoenas.”

One has to wonder if Democrats are itching for the full report because enough of their constituents are hungry for all 300 pages of information, or if they just refuse to take “no collusion” for an answer.

Either way, we’d advise Democrats to wind this down soonest. Let the retired (and maybe tired) G-man go home and be at peace with his grandkids. Dragging him back to Capitol Hill for endless testimony isn’t likely to accomplish much good.

A quick look back at November 2018, when voters decided to give Democrats control of the House, reveals it was because of issues like health-care reform and having some checks and balances on our president who, on a really bad day, takes to Twitter to fire off bad policy ideas. In terms of exciting voters, the Mueller report really doesn’t do much.

To their credit, most Democratic presidential candidates aren’t saying much about the Mueller report because their advisers have already figured out that won’t drive voters to the polls. Smart cookies in that regard.

If Dems want to keep the House after 2020, they’ll get to work on issues that all Americans have at heart. Otherwise, it’s possible they might defeat Mr. Trump, but hand full control of Congress right back over to Republicans.

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