NYTimes Editorial Board: A Dishonorable Senate

[spanone]

Republican legislators abdicated their duty by refusing to seek the truth.

Alas, no one ever lost money betting on the cynicism of today’s congressional Republicans. On Friday evening, Republican senators voted in near lock step to block testimony from any new witnesses or the production of any new documents, a vote that was tantamount to an acquittal of the impeachment charges against President Trump. The move can only embolden the president to cheat in the 2020 election.

The vote also brings the nation face to face with the reality that the Senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal — and stupid — power politics. Faced with credible evidence that a president was abusing his powers, it would not muster the institutional self-respect to even investigate.

The week began with such promise, or at least with the possibility the Senate might not abdicate its constitutional duty. Leaks from John Bolton’s forthcoming book about his time in the White House appeared to confirm the core of the impeachment case against Mr. Trump: his extortion of Ukraine by explicitly conditioning hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid on the announcement of investigations into his political rival.

For a moment, it seemed that enough Senate Republicans would come to their senses, listen to the overwhelming majority of Americans, and demand to hear testimony under oath from Mr. Bolton and maybe even other key witnesses to Mr. Trump’s Ukraine scheme.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/republicans-impeachment-congress.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[Cartoonist]

1. F the NYT

the reality that the Senate has become nothing more than an arena for the most base and brutal — and stupid — power politics.
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Don't include the Democrats in that description. This is entirely the GOP.

[kentuck]

2. And Nancy sez:

If he does it again, we will impeach him again...

[dem4decades]

3. I hope the Senate is never treated with respect again, nor Republican Senators.

Smug duplicitous hypocrites, and should be treated as such.

The World's Greatest Duplicitous Body

From here on in.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. And now the cover up begins anew, with all kinds of excuses and such being offered by...

the Senate gop thugs. I guess reality is a different ballgame with these gop thugs. With the 2020 elections coming up, no excuse offered by the gop will pass muster with the American public.

The gop Senate has lost all respectability.

Nothing should be allowed to pass the House and/or Senate to give any of these gop thugs in the WH or Senate a win of anything...they don't deserve it.

[Stuart G]

5. Kick for eposure...K and R