I have not been writing much about the impeachment trial in the US senate because I view it as political theater with a predetermined outcome since Trump and the Republicans are working together to make sure that no new information comes out, no witnesses are called, and no new documentary evidence presented, so that they can vote on acquittal as quickly as possible. All the posturing by a few Republican senators that they might vote to call witnesses is just that, posturing, so that they can pretend to be thoughtful people rather than hacks and craven Trump toadies.
Trump has warned Republican senators that he will have their “heads will be on a pike” if they vote against him in any way. What kind of person issues such a medieval threat? Any self-respecting senator would have expressed outrage to be talked to as if they were subjects of a king rather than tribunes of the people. But the key phrase there is ‘self-respecting’, a quality conspicuous by its absence.
I always laugh when US senators describe the senate as “the world’s greatest deliberative body”. Do they not realize that they are actually a laughingstock, composed largely of unprincipled and pompous windbags?
Stephen Colbert describes the appalling depths to which Trump’s legal team has sunk.
It should be borne in mind that Trump’s chief defender Alan Dershowitz’s field of expertise is in criminal law, not constitutional law, though he likes to pretend that he knows every area of law. He is widely regarded within the legal field as having become an attention-hungry clown, his credibility in shreds.
Ruben Bolling looks at this modern-day version of 12 Angry Men.
Johnny Vegas is a senator?!
(on the left, second one down)
I think the democrats are throwing the game, too. You’ll notice that they resolutely have not mentioned that there are two articles of impeachment. The president is committing “obstruction of justice” with every word and action yet the dems focus on Ukraine stupidity. Why haven’t they subpoena’d the chump? It’d give him more to obstruct…
“What kind of person issues such a medieval threat?”
Someone with a knowledge of history? Obviously someone has hacked Trump’s account.
I did not remember to save the quote but the British consul in Charleston (USA) pre-US Civil War described one local senator along these lines “A vulgar, drunken, thief and murderer, a model US senator”.
He was not enamoured of the slave-owning Southern soi-disant aristocracy.
The book is Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South.
@sonofrojblake:
That’s Ted Cruz (or perhaps you knew that: clearly your attribution was a joke, but I didn’t know if it came out of a genuine confusion of who the drawing was supposed to depict).