The sad state of our legislature

[drlindaphd]

Last edited Fri Feb 12, 2021, 10:21 PM - Edit history (1)

I have been almost glued to the impeachment trial in the Senate this week and I am sickened by the behavior of most of the Republicans and defense attorneys.

The House Managers are doing a stellar job of presenting the case against the former president. Their presentation has been highly organized, clear, and brutally honest. They have presented new evidence that is horrifying and shows the Senators how much danger they were in. They have clearly established the link between the insurrectionists and Trump; a link that goes back way before January 6, 2021.

Trump's lawyers had no defense. In the short time they actually spoke they wasted the time trying to shift blame to anyone but their client. A tactic used by sociopaths everywhere, including their client.

The majority of the Republican Senators where obviously not even paying attention. Hawley sat up in the balcony with his feet up. Cruz was reading as were others. McConnell was detached and stoic. Some Senators admitted they had already made up their minds to acquit. Three Republican Senators actually met with the defense attorneys during the trial!

The evidence to convict is so clear, that I do not see how any Senator can, in good conscience vote to find Trump innocent. And that is the problem. These Senators are self-serving, selfish, and definitely not looking out for the people of our country. They are not doing the job they were elected to do. They support Trump because they are just like him. So when do they get impeached?

[leftieNanner]

1. They can only be "impeached"

At their next election.

I think, in your last paragraph, you meant to say "...in good conscience vote to find Trump innocent..."

Excellent post.

And a belated welcome to DU.

[drlindaphd]

4. Thank you

for correcting my last paragraph. Yes I meant innocent!

[Irish_Dem]

2. The American people have embraced a corrupt GOP leadership for quite some time.

A leadership which only cares about money and power.
But that leadership is racist so the people are OK with that.

[LiberalBear]

3. Someone needs to remove the blindfold from Lady Liberty

I had to explain to my high school senior daughter today that the "rule of law" in the US was and always has been a figment or our collective imagination. It was a very sad day for me as a father. My daughter asked how Crystal Mason for casting an unintended illegal vote that had no chance of impacting an election gets 5 years in prison, but a US president who made multiple efforts to eliminate millions of legally cast votes terminating in the incitement of a murderous mob at the very heart of our democracy is allowed to walk away free of any accountability? The only answer....US Justice is not blind, never has been and never will be. I am grateful to all those who voted for Biden, for Georgians who voted for a democratic senate and sleep easier knowing adults are now on the bridge, but I hold no illusions as to the history of this country and its future. The rich and powerful have always and will always play by a different set of rules and when those rules work against them they will simply make up a new set and let the "few bad apples" take the fall. I have always and will always love my country and what America aspires to be, but I also know now that what we aspire for is and always will be a dream that can never be achieved. The "rule of law" is not some time honored principle chiseled in stone whose precepts are agreed upon by all. No, the rule of law is a piece of penciled paper to be defaced, scribbled over, sometimes erased and re-written by disingenuous, self serving lawyers who like the Pigs of Animal Farm aptly remind us at the most serious of moments, All US citizens are equal but some are more equal than others (see Wall Street investment bankers vs home owners in 2007-2008, see those who ordered torture and those who carried it out, see those who spread the Big Lie and those who died protecting them and those who died fighting for them... but we should say thanks for the standing ovation and the congressional gold medal...scraps from the Pigs table). Seems difficult not to conclude that American exceptionalism is exceptionally overrated.