A Dishonorable Senate

[dajoki]

A Dishonorable Senate
Republican legislators abdicated their duty by refusing to seek the truth.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/republicans-impeachment-congress.html

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In any case, Ms. Murkowski has it partly right. But it’s not Congress as an institution that has failed; it’s Senate Republicans. They didn’t refuse to hold a fair trial so much as they refused to hold any trial at all. Of course, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader for whom bipartisanship is a dirty word, had promised no less. He announced in December that he planned to work in complete coordination with the White House in protecting the president from any accountability, and that he had no intention of honoring the oath he would take to be an impartial juror.

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Senate Republicans’ indifference to the overwhelming public support for calling witnesses was of a piece with the party’s minority politics. Its president lost the popular vote by three million votes. Its Senate majority represents 15 million fewer Americans than the Democrats’ minority. In states like North Carolina, it rigs the maps to turn popular-vote losses into legislative majorities, then strips power from duly elected Democratic leaders.

And just in case Americans want to register their unhappiness with Republican leadership, the G.O.P. passes laws across the country to make voting harder and discourage turnout. “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, a leader of the modern conservative movement, said in 1980. “Our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

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Make no mistake: The Senate may acquit Mr. Trump, but it will not, it cannot, exonerate him. Mr. Trump is the most corrupt president in modern times, a reality Americans will continue to be reminded of — by continuing investigations by the House, which should immediately issue a subpoena to Mr. Bolton; by a trio of cases in the Supreme Court that seek to reveal Mr. Trump’s shady finances; and, of course, by the behavior of the man himself.

[Stuart G]

1. K and R Thank You for posting

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Time to ignore everything the WH does, ignore everything the Senate...

does.

They've abandoned all reason anyway so why even ever deal with them?

They'll find out that the American public doesn't forget something like this, the corrupt Senate failing to rein in a corrupt president, so the next best thing to do is ignore everything they (the WH and Senate) and continue to pass bills in the House, and let them pile up. Wait until a democratically favored Senate and President is back in power and let it rip.

In the meantime, make the WH and gop Senate powerless.

[duforsure]

3. Trump is not a republican,

He's a Putin loyalist, and eventually he'll have them powerless like Putin has done to the Russian government, and he will ignore them , and they'll have no power to stop him. He'll do away with Congress, and have absolute power over them. They don't realize he's doing exactly like Putin has done to Russia here.

[RAB910]

4. This