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all good people and all possible to go our way…and then it would have been Chuck Schumer, essentially, getting rid of Trump.
VOTING MATTERS
All the souls who are having their lives battered are affected by VOTING.
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It’s disrespectful to the House managers. Jason Crow even had to address that problem in the middle of his speech. I wonder if some senators feel they’re superior because they’re in the upper chamber.
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told CNN that senators are struggling to understand why they have to sit there in the first place, accusing Democrats of presenting the “same arguments over and over and over again.”
“And where are my milk and cookies? I was told there would be milk and cookies if we stayed in our chairs.”
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The Senators are roaming around looking for their integrity, ethics and morals, all of which having escaped them.
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Yes, but I keep straining to see a sign the Muscovite’s hubris has consequences and I see nada. Collins got her “concern” talking points approved, and Romney is genuinely his own pseudo-person, but all the other “purple” senators are still parroting the Muscovite.
I agree that this is the time when Jodi Ernst’s dying father’s words about the fragility of democracy, or Cory Gardner’s childhood crush on Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith,” or Ted Cruz’s sublimated anger at Trump over years of insults and personal slights should kick in (I making this all up, we all know Jodi Ernst hatched from a lizard egg). Right now it seems like the world’s “greatest deliberative body” is completely and totally prone, beseeching Trump to ride it like Joe Stalin.
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Weird, I was just thinking about him yesterday.
When I saw an ad for PBS on the subway with a picture of Judy Woodruff.
I didn’t think he was still alive.
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I could literally post everything Schiff has said as a “must-hear”, but this is a powerful statement calling out Republican cowardice.
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In fact, many of them were snacking.
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The opportunity to submit written questions is interesting. Can a Senator ask the “defense” to prove any of the lies it has put forth? Can they ask why their client is being denied the right to come in and face his accusers even though he says he wants to? So many fun questions possible.
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My first thoughts on Senates getting up and roaming is who is the pilot of this vehicle? Have they turned off the seat belt sign?
Second thought is do they need a hall pass to wander around?
Third thought would be can we ankle monitor the most egregious of the wanders?
And as always here’s your musical selection.
And if Susan Collins gets up they can use this for the soundtrack.
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That’s the last thing that any of the (R) Senators want to find. Might lead to twinges of conscience if left unchecked.
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Wander around at your own risk.
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Not the first time I’ve had to explain that for me the impeachment was always a write-off except for the harm it does to the GOP electorally. Who expected any other outcome? It’s a sad spectacle, but not surprising. It’s not like a Capra film, that much is clear, where people find they can’t take that next step. It’s more like addiction, obviously. People keep going downhill and often enough they just end up dead. This is not “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” It’s more like “The Sorrow and the Pity.” I know I’m optimistic about the society generally. I think we’ll muddle through this. But I think the GOP folks are going to have a long, slow realization of how deep a betrayal of the nation and themselves this was. Some will never get there. But it’s going to be a blight on all their lives, and a wound to the country, the way the French pre-war rightists wounded their own nation. It would have been better not to have come this way, but here we are.
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told CNN that senators are struggling to understand why they have to sit there in the first place, accusing Democrats of presenting the “same arguments over and over and over again.”
Translation: Member of the jury asks why he has to pay attention to the prosecutor during the trial.
I hope someone can manage to secretly take a picture of the empty GOP side of the Senate chamber.
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I agree that this was just a performance, but I didn’t expect the GOP to play the villains so dependably. While I like the “Sorrow and the Pity” a lot, my childhood was formed by Capra, and it left me an idealist about Constitutional democracy in a way that I find it deeply disturbing when a party of craven individuals is so clear about their view that actual cynical power plays are the reality of Washington rather than laws and ideals. I just feel the viability of the whole thing is powered by people acting “as if” ideals mattered and part of the danger of this moment is that the GOP is throttling that idea, after shooting it, and right before backing over it.
Good to hear you think this is still something we can overcome. Some mornings I feel that way, too.
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Sorry to hear that. One of the last of a generation of journalists who actually took journalism seriously and weren’t just elevated by some TV network because of how they look on TV.
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told CNN that senators are struggling to understand why they have to sit there in the first place, accusing Democrats of presenting the “same arguments over and over and over again.”
There’s plenty of new arguments you could be hearing, but you assholes won’t let any new evidence in or let any witnesses speak.
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What’s the ‘over-under’ on the Cons using all their time?
My money is on less than six hours total - on ‘defense’. I mean how many times can you say ‘nuh-uh’ and not bore yourself to death? Plus - wrapping it up as quickly as possible is a key element of Moscow Mitch’s game plan. “Nothing to see - he’s innocent - on to the song and dance celebration of the state of the union. Then MORE JUDGES TO APPOINT!! Times a wasitn boys!”
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