If chickenshit cowardly GQP senators are too afraid of their own radicalized and violent base voters, the domestic terrorists who sieged the Capitol on January 6, to do their constitutional duty and vote to convict Donald Trump for inciting sedition and insurrection against the United States government in this impeachment trial, then there needs to … Read more
Could it be? Is it finally happening? (albeit 5 years too late, IMHO). Reuters reports, Exclusive: Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party: Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are … Read more
Molly Jong-Fast at The Daily Beast succinctly sums up what is at stake in this impeachment trial: [I]mpeachment no longer feels like a punishment for Trump so much as a necessity for democracy. Either things matter or they don’t. Either Congress says armed insurrections are not OK and protects the principle and practice of a … Read more
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) writes at the Washington Post, My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America: Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” All Americans, but especially my fellow Republicans, should remember this wisdom during the Senate’s trial of former president Donald Trump. … Read more
The lawless Rethuglicans in the Arizona Senate failed in their attempt to hold the Republican-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt on Monday in their pursuit of Trump’s fever dream that he actually won Arizona, when one of their own who had voted for the resolution of contempt last week changed his mind about … Read more