Impeach the MF

I've been streaming the Trump impeachment hearings over the past few weeks. If you're an American (or an interested non-American), I urge you to do the same as much as you can tolerate. Not only are the hearings a good civics lesson, but they're very illuminating regarding the sheer inanity and stupidity of quite a few Congressmen and they clearly demonstrate how much the Republican party has degenerated completely into the Party of Trump.

Today's hearing in the Judiciary Committee was fascinating. Rather than fact witnesses, as we saw in the Intelligence Committee hearings, these were four law professors. Their job was to address the standards for impeachment and opine on whether Trump's actions in regards to Ukraine are impeachable.  (Spoiler: they sure as hell are!)

Three professors were called by the Democrats and were uniformly smart, focused and impressive. They agreed that Trump's actions were impeachable. The fourth professor was called by the Republicans and his main argument against impeachment was that he hasn't seen any facts from the weeks of testimony so far, and that all of this was going WAY TOO FAST and could they please slow down?!?  He was not impressive, may be actually blind and deaf, and kind of a dumbass.

In any event, the Republican Congressmen did a terrible job since they have no real defense for what Trump did. One of their main arguments today was that an impeachment proceeding is divisive, should therefore be bipartisan, and since not a single Republican voted to have these proceedings, they were by definition not bipartisan and therefore illegitimate. This is, of course, a standard that would guarantee no President could ever be impeached because that President's party would have an absolute veto over any proceedings by not voting for it. Yes, that is very, very stupid. (Not a Spoiler: They don't really have a firm grasp on the whole Constitution and the law thing.)

The rest of their arguments were equally off-point and vapid. They've got nothing.