Mitch McConnell’s Dereliction of Duty

McConnell’s speech was great. One for the history books. There’s only one problem…after he gave the speech he didn’t have the political courage to vote to impeach Donald Trump.

To impeach… seventeen GOP votes were needed. Only six Republicans voted to impeach. Even after McConnell’s speech and that of Lindsey Graham …Donald Trump wasn’t even censored by the Senate.

Pretty much the same thing in the House with Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy denounced Trump then pretty much within several weeks became a Trump puppet….again. Feed him some drinks at Mar-A-Largo and turn down the lights and Trump had another Lindsey Graham love affair back on his hands. Maybe those three should consider a threesome.

In a real court of law with a jury pool from which to select a jury from the voir dire process you would think there would have been a conviction depending on the jurisdiction. I don’t think you could get a jury in Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana which would ever convict regardless of the evidence. But in real courtrooms with real judges it would have been a conviction in most jurisdictions.

So when McConnell speaks of Trump’s dereliction of duty I kind of roll my eyes. Pot meet kettle, Mitch McConnell.

They’ll probably survive it though looking at how the mid-terms might go later this year….which is incredibly sad for our country moving forward. History has been very unkind to the party of a sitting president in his first term.

The irony is that in Oklahoma a senator like James Lankford who tries to straddle both sides of the Trump fence in a state like rogue red state Oklahoma is being primaried in 2022 by another Trump evangelical. This will be intriguing to witness in Oklahoma. Usually…without fail in Oklahoma this is the death of a GOP candidate. That is a GOP primary I’ll keep track of on here.

Lankford is on Trump’s death list because while he voted to acquit, he did vote yes on certfying the election. Inhoffe did the same, but he was just elected to a another six year term and with him already being in his mid-eighties… I think he’s safe from being primaried.

This was pretty much the case in both the election of Kevin Stitt in the governor’s election and Stephanie Bice in the 5th Congressional District race.

Bice in her quest to unset Kendra Horn basically disavowed her aversion to Trump in 2016 and attached herself to Trump campaign money and television ads embracing Trump. She was originally a Carly Fiorina supporter. But like all of them…when push comes to shove–they wilt.