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While Senate Republicans were busy on Friday aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s “total obstruction” of Congress by voting not to hear from relevant first-hand knowledge witnesses who have offered to testify and who have receipts to corroborate their testimony, these very same witnesses were dropping bombshells in “breaking news” in split-screen coverage of the impeachment … Read more
Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg sums it nicely, After Trump’s Acquittal, It Will Only Get Worse for Republicans (excerpt): It’s a foregone conclusion: Republican senators will damn themselves to infinity and beyond. The question isn’t what Republican senators will decide next week, but where the Republican Party will go after Trump’s acquittal. That answer, too, is … Read more
Above: Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, 1819-1820. Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Arizona Daily Star political cartoonist and columnist David Fitzsimmons captures the heartbreak of American patriots today after the betrayal of our country by “Vichy Republicans” in the Senate on Friday. Fitz’s Opinion: When revolutions die and monarchs return where will we stand? … Read more
