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- May 25, 2020
There was a very, very slim chance that if they had just picked one charge for the articles, that they may have gotten the number. Even if that failed, dems could still use it as a cudgel against the GOP amongst disaffected repubs and independents while not losing much of their base.It is an embarrassment. I am sorry to tell my mom, who hates Trump, that this is absolute, utter bullshit, a complete waste of time.
Trying to stuff these various charges through, and shooting for the moon with them, means that it's complete political theater. Trump could defend himself by farting on the desk as his only statement and he'd still sail through. The dems decided to go for the safer, easier approach of 'just throw red meat at your base,' and so they've taken a paper tiger stance in the hopes of securing reelection rather than even attempting to actually succeed in this task.
The Biden Administration, basically. It's slowing down a lot of his appointments and hoovering up time for his policy proposals to get discussion on the senate floor in the form of various bills and amendments. However, this farce isn't really expected to last very long.So uhh, whos paying for this boring political waste of time?
Is he telecommuting, and just not there in person? If he's telecommuting, it's probably good enough. If he's not involved at all, then it's indeed unconstitutional and someone from the GOP is asleep at the wheel, because it's in plain text. The only possible weasel-wording I could see is that this only applies when the president is "tried," which could be taken to mean "only when the president himself is being questioned." That would be a comically retarded take, however, relying on one of the least-prominent interpretations of "tried." The original vote on whether to proceed with the hearing didn't need him involved.Is the Chief Justice still not presiding over this? Isn't the a giant screeching flashing sign that this isn't a Constitutional impeachment proceeding?