BTRTN: How To Secede Without Really Trying
Born To Run The Numbers on Rand Paul's appalling contention that conducting an impeachment trial of a President who has left office is "unconstitutional."
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/01/btrtn-how-to-secede-without-really.html
Excerpts: "Call it passive aggression secession. If you don’t like what the Constitution mandates, ignore it. It is the logical extension in the thought processes of a party that does not believe in objective truth or factual reality. It’s pretty much the same as pretending that COVID -19 will 'magically go away,' or that there was 'widespread voter fraud.' If you don’t like reality, pretend it doesn’t exist.
"However, Senator Paul, here is a most inconvenient fact: it was the Republican and then-Senate Majority Leader McConnell who refused to call the Senate into an immediate trial while Trump was still president, declaring that he would hold off convening the trial until after Trump was out of office. Surely, Senator, you would agree that is an admission on the part of your Chamber’s leader that a trial could happen after Trump was out of office. I do not recall the phrasing of Mitch McConnell’s proposal to be “let’s hold off on the trial of the President until he is out of office so that there cannot be a trial,” although I concede that McConnell is fully capable of such weapons-grade hypocrisy...
"All of which brings us to the essential issue: Rand Paul stood up and fabricated an illusory issue so that Senate Republicans could hide behind a bogus procedural argument rather than having to be counted as for or against the actual charges.Come, Republican Senators, have the guts to stand up and have your vote counted on the real question before you...You are being asked to judge whether Trump is innocent or guilty of the charges brought against him. That is your Constitutional duty. Don’t run frightened from it. Face up to it."
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