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Suzette Ciancio's avatar

“So for a Republican senator, what’s the political calculation on impeachment?” There is part of the problem, isn’t it, Dr. Richardson? Not how to uphold the oath they swore, not how to best serve their state, not how to best serve the country, but what is the political cost. They need to have their oaths repeated to them over and over and over. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

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Ralph Averill's avatar

The Republican Party is splitting in two. Republicans are going to find it more and more difficult to straddle the schism by keeping a foot on each side. The impeachment vote is going to force many Republicans to choose which Republican Party is most likely to survive, especially in light of the corporate financial backing that is no longer a sure thing. Republican senators who abstain the impeachment vote, who are not "present" that day, may be seen by the Tumpistas as de facto votes to convict, or perhaps they can claim to be boycotting an "unconstitutional" process and thus escape responsibility, and choosing sides, for the moment.

A lot depends on the propaganda wing of the party; Limbaugh, Hannity, et al. One would like to see a corporate sponsorship abandonement/boycott of these media fountains of dis-information similar to what has occurred in the political wing. That kind of financial strangling, along with pending libel lawsuits, could go a long way to setting the Republican Party on the track toward sanity and decency and honesty and integrity it used to have. Well, sort of.

Bumper sticker I just thought of; "Sanity not Hannity!"

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