Their long-term plan involves never having to deal with a Democratic president ever again, so it’s fine.
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Strategically, this isn’t about the Presidency itself. It’s about getting the vulnerable GOP senators to go on the record for acquittal of an obviously guilty Trump. Senate seats previously considered safe, like McConnell, Graham, and Cassidy (LA), are looking vulnerable. The timing will be interesting, too. If the Senate vote happens before senate primaries, any GOP senator that votes to convict will likely face real primary challenges. If it happens after the senate primaries, it gets even more interesting, as many GOP senators in even slightly purplish red states would have to consider voting to convict, and trusting that 6 years from now the political landscape will be different.
I think that last bit is part of McConnell’s calculation in wanting a quick outcome, and why Trump wants to drag it out and make it a circus. He doesn’t give a shit whether moderate Republicans get shafted. It’s like a loyalty test to him.
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Current Republicanism. Strangely, they didn’t have that perspective four years ago.
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Oh, they very much had it during Bush the Lesser’s reign. Dick Cheney in particular was hardcore into the “unlimited executive power” mindset. Curiously, when the black guy was in power they had a change of heart.
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Headline fail: the House won’t approve the articles until next Wednesday. The House Judiciary Committee approved them and forwarded them for consideration.
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so for the purposes of impeachment, what happens next? Do we wait till after the elections before giving it to the senate to see if there’s more dem seats then?
Presiding might be more than it sounds at first.
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Kevin Klein
The fix is in.
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