I think I might be coming around to the notion that the impeachment trial is partisan.

I was just listening to a Republican Senator who was saying that he is so open minded that he would like to hear from some key witnesses, but.... he also said that he is sick and tired of hearing the facts repeated ad naseum by the prosecution at the trial, that he has heard it all too many times and he knows that nothing new will be presented. He said the Dems are actually hurting their case by presenting it, a brilliant observation, I admit. In fact, he knows that the case is so weak that there would be no purpose to adding to the length of the trial by hearing witnesses, a thing that could go on for an unbefukkinglievable amount of time and not change anything. Same with any new evidence that has appeared since the House voted on the Articles. If it wasn't for that, he would be first in line for witnesses, especially Hunter Biden.

The Democrats, on the other hand, know that they have a very strong case, which probably couldn't be denied even by the wackiest of the right-wingers without permanently staining their already blotched reputations with the armband of complete dishonesty, with the cherry on top of testimony from a few of the participants in the crimes.

It's clearly a matter of partisanship that the Republicans are in favor of trading in our Constitutional government for an authoritarian dictatorship led by a corrupt buffoon, while the Democrats are mindlessly trying to overturn a semi-legitimate election of the finest President this nation has ever suffered.

I sincerely apologize for previously having been resistant to the notion that it's nothing more than partisan bickering. rolleyes

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To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller