February 2019

Now, the GOP Senators tell us that it is the people's duty to vote Trump out of office as the only possible penalty for Trump's Crimes... These are the same corrupt Senators who have blocked all House bills to protect our elections from foreign (Russian) interference... The same GOP who is busily purging people of color off State voting rolls... and with their GOP-packed Supreme Court declaring that gerrymandering of voting districts is fine by them... Yes, the same GOP that is doing their best to prevent any and all fair elections!! (Not to mention, the same GOP Senators who are paid millions by Russian Oligarchs)...

Not that all this wasn't anticipated – We all watched as the GOP Senators voted, in servile lockstep, to reject any firsthand witness, new evidence or testimony in the impeachment trial of their "Dear Leader." Apparently, it is now OK for a US President, provided he is an amoral, ignorant and incompetent egomaniac, to use taxpayer money to extort political advantage from an ally of America, and in doing so to aid an enemy of America, namely the Russia of Vladimir Putin.

Lamar Alexander did allow some daylight into the dim recesses of the Republican mindset, making their doublethink remarkably clear: as he stated that, "The Democrats had proven their case so well that No new evidence was necessary, the President was guilty as changed... but that wasn't really important, because using taxpayer money in the extortion of a foreign ally for personal advantage was not specifically mentioned by the Founding Fathers."

Those Founding Fathers, risking their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for the sake of their new republic, probably never even imagined that an American President or Senate might sink so low into the slime of corruption... But unfortunately, it seems that the Founding Fathers were Wrong! JQ