This should in no way have been a surprise to anyone. This is precisely why Donald Trump decided to run for president in 2016. He knew then and now ‘men’ like Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Little Marco Rubio, and Lyin’ Ted Cruz were the weakest field ever to be considered for the presidency in the history of the GOP.
I’ll give Donald Trump credit on this issue…. on this he was spot on. These four in my lifetime are the most feckless, gutless, pathetic candidates to ever be allowed to take the stage of a presidential debate stage from the same political party which at one time represented the values of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.
The five GOP senators who voted to proceed with ‘this’ impeachment trial were Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Pat Toomey.
Mitch McConnell taking the sleazy way out in no way should be a surprise either. It is what it is.
This means forty-five GOP senators believe viewing evidence and hearing from witnesses is not at all the thing to do moving forward following the January 6th premeditated insurrection of the U.S. capitol. The fact five people were killed and the mob was screaming to lynch just retired Vice-President Mike Pence in no way weighed in on their vote.
Mike Pence, dude….now you can become a charter member of Black Lives Matter. You just became black within the U.S. Senate Chamber. Your fellow party buds just deemed your life wasn’t worth the time to conduct a trial.
This means when a politically gutless senator like James Lankford from Oklahoma took to the floor after the deadly riot….his then changed post riot vote to not object to the certifying of the election was the typical political shade this feckless coward has exhibited for the duration and beyond of Donald Trump’s rogue red presidency.
Job well done former Christian youth minister, James Lankford. I knew you wouldn’t let Oklahoma down, sir.
So now the Dems will go to trial on February 8th already knowing that forty-five of the jurors aren’t going to consider the evidence, the testimony of the witnesses… or the severity of the deadly January 6th capitol riot.
But again this in no way surprises me or anyone else who weighs political matters with some objectivity.
Since most of these forty-five GOP senators have law degrees it is an even sadder day because it means in essence these senators have no respect whatsover for the law.
What they just displayed to the world is the fact the U.S. Senate Chamber is nothing more than a political whore house where political self survival trumps the law every day of the week with these political cowards who even after Trump left office and was banned on Twitter…don’t have the collective balls to for one time do the right thing.
Mike Pence meet George Floyd.
Your life didn’t matter with your political friends. But you did do the right thing in following the law.
In closing…what really happened yesterday was the GOP decided to go all in on Donald Trump as the soul of the Republican Party moving forward even after he on tape in essence called for the execution of his own vice-president.
This symbolic GOP Banana Republic microcosm is what’s left of the Party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt moving forward.
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Footnote video: This is Nicole Wallace former presidential aide to Bush 43 with Steve Schimdt former John McCain campaign coordinator discussing yesterday’s disgraceful vote in the United States Senate. I will for the most part always try to limit any MSNBC footnote on my blog to GOP members only to encourage objectivity. Likewise…the only person at Fox at this point I would consider using on a footnote would be Chris Wallace, possibly Bret Baier, or the now departed Shep Smith. Now on to the video.