Here’s Where I’m Lost
As kids we were taught about the three distinct branches of government.
The house has impeached which means that the executive branch must comply with requests for information.
The executive branch had a blanket response to not comply.
The investigation was clearly obstructed.
It went over to the senate where the leader of the senate decided, before he even got the articles, to side with the executive branch and then he bashed the house leader saying, “you didn’t have any witnesses!”
They ignored the request to testify!
But the senate surely would do their job, right?
It does not appear as if that will happen.
They got up and left during the trial. They played drinking games, they played with spinners and did crossword puzzles.
They don’t want any witnesses!
A trial without evidence and witnesses.
They asked the president, the subject of the investigation, what he was thinking.
“They don’t have the materials. We have all the materials. They aren’t getting them.”
Which is, uh, obstruction!
It looks as though the senate republicans will be playing defense all the way through.
“Anyone who doesn’t vote along with the president will be hung on a pike.”
That was the note sent along.
I said awhile back that we’re in trouble...
...a ruling no to hear witnesses and a blanket vote to not remove means that the very basics of our government has changed.
We no longer have oversight and the president has the powers of a king.
The very thing that the framers of the constitution we’re trying to guard against.
So, the rules have changed.
And we lost our democracy to a blithering idiot.
Sounds great.
I must be missing something.
The house has impeached which means that the executive branch must comply with requests for information.
The executive branch had a blanket response to not comply.
The investigation was clearly obstructed.
It went over to the senate where the leader of the senate decided, before he even got the articles, to side with the executive branch and then he bashed the house leader saying, “you didn’t have any witnesses!”
They ignored the request to testify!
But the senate surely would do their job, right?
It does not appear as if that will happen.
They got up and left during the trial. They played drinking games, they played with spinners and did crossword puzzles.
They don’t want any witnesses!
A trial without evidence and witnesses.
They asked the president, the subject of the investigation, what he was thinking.
“They don’t have the materials. We have all the materials. They aren’t getting them.”
Which is, uh, obstruction!
It looks as though the senate republicans will be playing defense all the way through.
“Anyone who doesn’t vote along with the president will be hung on a pike.”
That was the note sent along.
I said awhile back that we’re in trouble...
...a ruling no to hear witnesses and a blanket vote to not remove means that the very basics of our government has changed.
We no longer have oversight and the president has the powers of a king.
The very thing that the framers of the constitution we’re trying to guard against.
So, the rules have changed.
And we lost our democracy to a blithering idiot.
Sounds great.
I must be missing something.
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