Live from Washington DC it's.......The Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's Impeachment Special Part One

Hey!  So it's 2020 and we're a few days into the impeachment trial of the Senate for the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago (a/k/a: electoral vote winner Donny) on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  For a while Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had held up sending the articles of impeachment over to the Senate in hopes that Senate Majority leader Addison the turtle (a/k/a: Moscow Mitch or Midnight Mitch) would send over the rules but the latter held off and Pelosi, for betgter or worse, decided to get the trial underway. 

With yesterday's release of the rules it was clear the Addison the Turtle wanted to get things through as quick as possible so he could acquit the Mad Fuhrer (which, let's face it, the Repubs most likely plan to do).  Among the rules included an attempt to get all the testimony done in two days (public outcry pushed that to three) and requiring all the Senate to sit in silence throughout this.  In addition, some key parts of the trial will be blocked from Press coverage and Addison the Turtle does have an option to dismiss outright.  While the Repubs claim this iin keeping of the rules of the CLinton impeachment in 1998-99, a brief study shows it's a world apart.  As the House Impeachment Managers tried to get amendments through to allow additional evidence (some of which came to light after the house impeachment inquiry and some proving that the Mad Fuhrer and his minions committed crimes), the amendments get defeated by strict partyline voted of 53 Repubs to 47 Democrats. 

There's also rumors of a witness trade which would make former Vice President Biden and maybe also his son Hunter to testify in hopes of getting Mick Mulvaney or John Bolton.  For now Sen. Chuck Schumer claims such a trade is off the table but the establishment Dems do have a habit of caving so, while we hope it's off the table since Biden or his son would know little of the Mad Fuhrer's corruption and his blocking aid to Ukraine, this could happen down the road. 

Meanwhile there's the case made by the House Impeachment Manager versus the cases made by the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago's legal team.  The former, from what I've been able to see [like many of you I've seen bits and pieces since I have things to do], has given a somber multimedia presentation on the laws Donny broke, how it fits the criteria for impeachable offenses, and the like.  As for the legal team for Donny, it;s gone from seemingly not knowing what they're talking about to outright lying.  While logic would predict that Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts should do something about the lies, he seems to be quiet over it all. 

As I said before, while it's too early to tell what will actually happen, it does appear likely that the Repubs will choose party over country, truth, or decency and not remove the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago from office (even though such as move would promote Mike Pence to electoral vote winner Mikey, who's a more sincere believer in the theocratic leaning bullshit the GOP has embraced for a long ass time than Donny, though Donny has shown open white supremacist views can help them as well).  Since no President has ever been removed from office due to impeachment this is quite likely for the Mad Fuhrer as well.  However, what is good about the impeachment is the lessons it seems to be showing us about politics in the U.S.

One- There is no such thing as a moderate Repub on the Federal level (and probably none in many of the states as well).
     The mainstream media has long tried to pitch the idea of those "mioderates" such as Sen. Susan Collins or Sen. Lisa Murkowski or Sen/ Mitt Romney switching sides and choosing country over party to vote with the Democrats.  Time and again this has been proven not to be the case (remember the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for justice Bretty Brett Kavanaugh).  This time around appears to be no different.

Two - Neither the Mad Fuhrer nor the Repubs in the Senate appear to care about the truth.
      Note that each amendment vote has found all the Repubs voting party over country almost oan extreme.  Part of this is due to partisan gerrymandering (many are in such safe districts that the only challenge is being primaried on the even further right), but another part of it is the Mad Fuhrer's takeover of the party os so complete that if he is innocent (as they claim) then one would think they'd want evidence and witnesses to prove it.  Nope, no evidence or testimony. 
     Add to this the orignal push for 12 hour days for each side to make their case, which would mean that good testimony could be made in the middle of the night and it's clear that the Repubs don't want people to know what happened.

Does that mean it's bleak and hopeless?  While it once again shows that there needs to be an overwhelming get out to vote effort to counter the Repubs voter suppression tactics to steal 2020 and get Donny out, the impeachment will be good for one thing - all the votes will be made public somehow and that will be on their records for the rest of their careers.  And that needs to be focused on as election time gets closer. 

That's all for now.  More on impeachment as things unfold.