There might not ever be a more naive and ignorant newspaper column than the one just written by the New York Times’ David Leonhardt, so everyone should soak it up now.

Leonhardt, perhaps like most liberals, is under the impression that it was Robert Mueller’s “job” as special counsel to make the case for impeachment.

“I can’t escape the feeling that Robert Mueller ultimately failed to do his job,” he wrote Wednesday night. “Yes, he conducted a thorough, fair investigation of President Trump and Trump’s 2016 campaign. But when that investigation was over, Mueller ducked the tough decisions.”

He said that it should have been Mueller who “explained” in front of Congress that the “right place” to adjudicate whether President Trump ever committed any crimes is Congress.

If there is a single sitting congressman who needed Mueller to tell them that they have the power, at any given moment, for any reason at all, to impeach Trump, then that representative should be recalled immediately.

It is expressly spelled out in the Constitution that the House of Representatives is invested with the authority to initiate the process of removing a president from office. “The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”

Why, exactly, would Mueller have needed to say that in a hearing?

Because Democrats and their liberal hopefuls in the national media thought it would look good on TV and perhaps give them the push they’ve needed to start the impeachment process. I don’t think I’m the first person to state accurately that the Mueller hearings on Wednesday were meant to be a show. Unfortunately for Democrats, they cast a really, really bad star.

Outside of former President Barack Obama, Democrats have never put their faith in a single person who couldn’t have possibly cared less for what they wanted.

Mueller had no "tough decisions" to make. He explained that during the hearing when he said that he began his investigation with the presumption that it would not result in any charges.

He had one job and it wasn’t to tell Democrats that they could and should impeach the president. It was to look in to the extent of Russia’s attempted interference in the 2016 election.

He did that and he told us what he found. That makes his work a success.

Leonhardt thinks Mueller “failed to do his job” not because he fell short. He thinks Mueller failed because Mueller didn’t tell Democrats what they wanted to hear.