Bill Of Impeachment: Article I, Obstruction Of Justice

[Scooter]

[ex-khobar Andy]

Am keeping one eye on the Senate. WTF does Roberts do? He is supposed to be presiding, according to the Constitution but he is doing nothing but reading the questions like an overpaid clerk and saying 'as you like' every time McConnell wants a pee break.

[ex-khobar Andy]

As an example, there was a question from one of the D Senators to the President's counsels:"When was the White House aware of the Bolton book and its possible contents?" (I'm paraphrasing.) This is somewhat relevant because there has been a move to cast the book as disclosing US secrets.

Characteristically the WH Counsel waffled. "I don't have the exact date. We heard about it." And then he proceeded to answer a question he had not been asked.

I would have expected a presiding judge to say: "WTF? OK you don't have the exact date in your head - can you nail it down to three or four days ago, or even sometime last week? I don't believe you have no fucking idea." Again I am paraphrasing the intervention I would expect from a presiding judge.

[Econoline]

Good news for President Warren, or President Biden, or President Sanders, or...?




OOPS...the fine print says:
*in the event of a Democratic President, this offer is null and void.

[Econoline]

From the Great Big 'Ol Book O' Faces.....

ALL THE WITNESSES: Ok we all agree. This is what happened.

REPUBLICANS: None of you were in the room!

BOLTON: *raises hand* Well I was in the...

REPUBLICANS: Who asked you?! Shut up! You’re a liberal pawn!

BOLTON: Um... I’m actually I’m a lifelong Republican and I was literally Trump’s national security advi...

REPUBLICANS: Shut your mustache! Somebody bring back the first national security advisor.

FLYNN: *in orange jumpsuit* Hey sorry guys I’m in jail lol.

REPUBLICANS: What? Why?

FLYNN: For lying to the FBI about the Russia investigation.

REPUBLICANS: Well what idiot told you to do that?!

FLYNN: The Pres...

REPUBLICANS: Shut up! No one believes either of you!

KELLY: *raises hand* I believe them. And I was Trump’s Chief of sta...

REPUBLICANS: Shut up! Let’s talk to the current chief of staff. Who is he?

MULVANEY: *raises hand* It’s me. Sort of. Well, I'm the act...

REPUBLICANS: Shit. Never mind.

PARNAS: *raises hand* I was also in the room. In fact, here’s a cell phone video of the President saying that...

REPUBLICANS: Wait what?! How in hell did you sneak a cell phone into a meeting with the President?

PARNAS: It was easy I just walked right in and...

REPUBLICANS: Shut up! You’re a criminal!

PARNAS: Correct. So I just walked right into...

TRUMP: I don’t know him.

PARNAS: And here’s 500 pictures of me with the President because we’re besties.

REPUBLICANS: Wait... What idiot introduced you to the President??

PARNAS: His personal lawyer.

REPUBLICANS: Cohen??

COHEN: *also in orange jumpsuit* Hey no sorry guys I’m in jail too. Oops.

REPUBLICANS: Why?

COHEN: For campaign finance violations.

REPUBLICANS: Whose campaign?

COHEN: The Pres...

REPUBLICANS: Shut up! Who was the campaign chair??

MANAFORT: *also in orange jumpsuit* Yeah. Me. Also in jail. Heyyyy.

REPUBLICANS: IS EVERYBODY IN JAIL?!?

PARNAS: It was Giuliani.

YOVANOVITCH: Giuliani! That’s the guy who had me fired from my job!

REPUBLICANS: Who are you??

YOVANOVITCH: I was the ambassador to Ukraine.

REPUBLICANS: Wait, you had her fired? Do you work for the government??

GIULIANI: Nope. But I figured no one really follows any rules around here so...

REPUBLICANS: Well who is the ambassador to the European Union??

SONDLAND: *raises hand* It's me. I was also in the roo...

REPUBLICANS: F@$&!!!

PUTIN: *rubs his bare chest*

"Shut your mustache!"

[Scooter]

[ex-khobar Andy]

It's been beyond a joke for a long time now but I always thought that somehow it would all work out. Even given the current lack of understanding of climate science which is still the gravest threat to the planet, to the economy and to national security.

No more. The Republican defense is willing to bring down the temple around us all. It is almost exactly the Nixon thing: if the President does it, it's not illegal. To hear Alan Dershovitz (I'm so angry with that man I'm not even going to do him the elementary courtesy of looking up how to spell his fucking name) tell it, all politicians think they are god's chosen so acting like one is hardly grounds for impeachment.

I think that within ten years there is a very real chance that the country I grew up in will be torn asunder. Scotland will depart the Union which has lasted 300 years. There are young Republican turds, far smarter than Trump - and those of us who believe in the idea of a liberal democracy (and yes, wesx and Darren and Liberty - you do too even though you won't acknowledge it) had better be grateful for now that Trump really is as thick as we think he is - who have seen the green light to rip this country apart in their own interests and these fuckers have guns. I may become a second amendment advocate after all.

[wesw]

welc0me, andy, t0 the state 0f liberty

y0u are n0w well and truly w0ke, thank g0d.

y0u and I disagree 0n much, yet we each t0lerate and even learn fr0m 0ne an0ther.

there y0u g0.

I ll stand f0r y0ur right t0 run y0ur yap as y0u see fit, within reas0n.

if y0u truly believe s0mething, y0u sh0uld be able t0 state that thing in which y0u believe.

I m willing t0 die f0r y0ur right t0 speak.

temp0rary safety d0esn t trump essential liberty.

get rid 0f the g0d f0rsaken monarchy, will ya"

0r are y0u American?

I can t tell.

dual citizenship is f0r the birds.

get 0ff the fence, man.

stand with liberty in the c0untry y0u l0ve, but please pick 0ne.

I ll stand with England, if they are free.

buy a gun while y0u can, y0ur grandchildren may need it 0ne fine day.

[Scooter]

And I remain completely incapable of pointing to a single solitary thing the defense said that even weakens, let alone refutes, the House managers' case.

[Econoline]

Alan Dershovitz (I'm so angry with that man I'm not even going to do him the elementary courtesy of looking up how to spell his fucking name)

Douchewitz.

[BoSoxGal]

You’re on a roll today!

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

[Econoline]

[Scooter]

Romney is voting to convict

[wesw]

the cheese stands al0ne.

[Scooter]

He'll stand with 47 patriots against a would be dictator to whom you have chosen to sell your soul (and probably your wife and daughter*)





*or, at least, rent them by the hour

[wesw]

r0mney..., c0fer black..., burisma.....

[Scooter]

Kushner...$30 million from Israeli company while cooking up a plan to hand over most of the Occupied Territories to Israel.

[Guinevere]

I am the last to praise Mittens Romney, but I endorse Larry Tribe’s tweet from yesterday, which says:

“Romney’s principled decision makes this the first bipartisan vote to convict and remove a president in American history. Even though it looks like 52 to acquit and 48 to remove, this is a landmark of ignominy for Trump.”

He took his oath, and his duty to defend the Constitution seriously, and for that I will always be grateful.