The sad thing is that it’s so much easier just to name the non-crazy, relatively non-evil exceptions. In terms of actual names of (R) senators, I can only come up with Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse, but I suppose the other five Rs who voted to convict have some merit. The others are all nuts by any rational measure. Some, like Cruz and Hawley (aka Mister Ed, the talking horse) are practically parodies of evil villains, like Dr. Evil in The Spy Who Shagged Me.
“Dour”? “Sullen”? “Espouse”? Trump has obviously hired someone to write his rants for him. The old Twitter-bound Trump would have just called him a low-energy loser.
That is one thing that honestly confuses me about Republicans and Trump. Trump does not reward partial loyalty. If you are disloyal to him for one single day or one single task that he considers important, he will send a mob to murder you. Kiss his ass all you want, he never forgives and he never forgets. And now Mitch has been named and shamed as an Enemy of the People. So he is subject to the exact same fate he would have suffered if he actually did something about Trump and all he has done is pissed away his chance.
Mitch was under the (apparently common) delusion that he was too important/powerful to be thrown under the bus. He was wrong. There is no one too important/powerful for Trump to try to throw under a bus.
Mitch could have seen Trump convicted and stripped of the ability to run for office very easily. But he blew it, because he didn’t want the Republicans to own up to the monstrous thing they had spawned. He valued short term holding to power and influence over the long term interest of both the party and himself.
Conviction in the Senate, even if just “political theater”, would have made it easier for both civil and criminal trials to proceed. Acquittal will not help those efforts. And it’s made the entire concept of impeachment a sick joke.
I always think of the line attributed to Mr. Clemens of the White Suit, “I returned a note saying that I was unable to attend the funeral but I approved of it.”
SCORE!!! Whoops(not), should have been posted in the themed death pool.
Rot in HELL f*&^#r. You were a steaming pile of excrement who did more to divide and stupify Americans than even the orange traitor. Your constant stream of lies never raised up a single element of Democracy. May you be buried with easy access to piss on your grave.
Folks, we dodged a bullet here with Biden’s election. Had Cheetolini remained, he’d have had Rush Limburger lie in state at the capitol rotunda or draped over the Resolute desk. Imagine the scene with Mitch, Ted, Lindsey, Josh, Louis, Mo, Curley, Larry, Schep, Pompeo et al masturbating furiously in an attempt to reanimate the rotting corpse. All the while a spotlight plays on the DumpsterFire Medal of Freedom displayed on the open sores of Rush’s cancerous chest. Imagine this followed by a 21 gun salute and burial at Arlington with full honors.
A close call this.
I would welcome an open pit burial where all could come and piss into the coffin pay their respects. Thoughts and prayers to his four wives who I hope were well compensated for screwing this bloated whale (sorry to insult whales).
I desperately needed that laugh this evening… as I head into another dark, cold, likely sleepless night without heat or electricity.
Beautiful… Maybe instead of counting sheep I’ll count trumpniks… er… jumping over Rush’s coffin in the Capitol… Don’t forget Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick the Gruesome Threesome, Texas Division.