Thursday, January 30, 2020

Do You Know The Muffin Man?

Some members of the U.S. Senate are clearly true believers, and think the sun shines out of Trump's ass.

Some reportedly curse his name in private, but are too afraid to do so in public.  Well, that's okay; LBJ ruled by intimidation and coercion, too.  And politicians are seldom heroic figures of public rectitude; then again, neither are most of us.  It's a representative government, after all.

None of the GOP Senators want to be part of the first Senate in U.S history EVER to remove a sitting President from office.  All of them know they'd play the part of Gerald Ford after pardoning Nixon if they did, whether they're up for re-election this year or in four years.

They are caught between a rock and a hard place, but again:  better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.  And the choice is not between President Trump and President Pence, but between the status quo (however bad it is) and the howling winds of chaos unleashed by removing a President for the first time in U.S. history.  The mountains of madness look more hospitable than that possible future.

Nor do they want to hear from witnesses; that just prolongs the anguish and the boredom and having to actually sit in the Senate chamber for days on end, and it won't change the outcome.  If anything, it just makes the outcome more punitive on them.  Best to end it now and cauterize the wound and hope infection doesn't set in and turn to political gangrene.  It probably will anyway, but one outcome they can control now, v. the outcome they can't control later, and both paths lead to the same end, so why take the longer road?

It's all over but the shouting.  It has been since Nancy Pelosi agreed to start impeachment proceedings.  It was always going to come to this.  But 70+% of the people think witnesses should be heard (despite the disaster that would be in the Senate), and over 50% think Trump should be removed from office (despite the fact the Senate is no more likely to do that than all 100 Senators are likely to jointly dance the macarena on the floor of the chamber).

November is going to suck, but that's still 8 months away.  This is here; this is now.  The only way out is just to make it stop; so why not stop it now?

But we should at least be able to buy souvenirs from some on-line Capitol gift shop:

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