Now that the Resistance seems to have run out of steam and Trump needs to get the Congress in gear on healthcare and tax cuts, it seems to me the time has come to think about firing the Special Counsel Mueller. The reason for this is the fact that he is assembling a republican killing machine. And once it’s been assembled it’s inevitably going to get to work killing republicans. Now, democrats and timid republicans are going to say you can’t fire a special counsel. But, which is more dangerous and destructive, firing him or keeping him? Unless Mueller is actually secretly a friend of Trump’s I don’t see his present actions (hiring Clinton operatives) as anything but inimical to Trump’s administration. And with respect to timing, getting negative press now is much better than getting bad press in a year. We want the mid-term elections to occur when the biggest news stories will be successful republican initiatives (e.g., tax breaks showing up in refund checks and healthcare reform becoming lowered healthcare premiums). So to my mind, the time to lance this boil is now. After all, firing Comey was actually a non-event after all was said and done. Firing Mueller will be basically the same thing. And the fact that Trump hasn’t done it yet may just mean he’s taking a wait and see attitude. That is to my mind a mistake. If you wait until Mueller starts to leak damaging results to the press means people will be reminded of all the nonsense the press dredged up in the first half of the year. And that will scare the cowardly republican congress and that will delay the agenda. Obviously that’s a self-defeating strategy. Lance the boil now, not when it’s too late.