As Jennifer Rubin says: [Republicans’] attitude toward nominations is symptomatic of their entire approach to politics: It is about theater, about feeding right-wing media (which loves nothing better than to paint progressives as extreme radicals) and never about governance, let alone bipartisanship. If you have been watching any congressional hearings this week, this has become … Read more
For the first time in U.S. history, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted for impeachment of a president, and for the first time in U.S. history, to impeach a former president. (Sen. Mitt Romney previously made Donald Trump’s first impeachment bipartisan for the first time in history). The Senate voted 57-43 to impeach … Read more
I will reiterate what I have said many times before. The Party of Trump is a criminal enterprise led by a third-rate mafia “Don” Trump. They are all accomplices, coconspirators and accessories who aid and abet his criminality and corruption. There is not a patriot among them. They put fealty to their “Dear Leader” above … 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
Well, this settles the matter. No senator can in good conscience now vote to acquit Donald Trump on Article I of the Articles of Impeachment. To do so is to egregiously ignore the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) purely out of GOP tribalism by lawless Republicans. Is … Read more