You write as though the Democrats never insisted on Special Prosecutors.

You read wrong. I write as though Democrats never pursued a president for years trying to find something, ANYTHING, to pin on him. Because they haven't. The Starr chamber proceedings were shameful and the fact that they haven't been renounced by the Republicans is to their eternal shame. Once Starr happened, "special prosecutor" doesn't mean quite the same thing, at least when the Repugs are calling for it.