I don’t understand why the Dems are being so one-sided and on the surface unfair about the rules - it hurts them publicly. They know that the Senate was unlikely to remove the President, which is why this entire charade was simply being done to tarnish the President in people’s eyes going into next year’s election But by running things in a secretive way , and skewing the rules in such obvious ways (pending today’s vote), they undercut their ability to make it look like a fair process, and they cement opposition from the Republicans.
They need the proceedings to be taken seriously by the public if they are going to have any impact on the President, and they will never be seen that way in the manner it has been done and the way it will be voted on today. By being heavy and skewing the hearings (and doing so when the hearings now go public) so blatantly, they seriously undermine their own efforts to hurt the President or make him look bad. IF they truly believe he intended a quid pro quo or was guilty of that, they wouldn’t need to play games with select rules and witnesses to prove that. They know they are never going to be able to make a definitive case to the public, hence the need to tinker with rules to simply try to leave that impression.
Luckily, the Senate will be even more ready to discard this trash once it arrives, because the House isn’t even pretending to do this in a fair manner. I look forward to seeing all of the House’s efforts being crumpled up and tossed in a waste basket in a few weeks.
Oh and by the way, are any of these guys planning on funding the government in the next few weeks?
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