After 4 hours of “debate”, when the House Managers fought for an actual trial and Trump’s lawyers talked about Joe Biden, the Senate voted 51-49 for a Trump coverup, and against actual witnesses.  Romney and Collins (to this writer’s surprise) voted with all of the Dems.  The sham trial continues, and the next step is to turn over the US government to TrumpWorld to strip out what’s left of the American experiment.

Christ on a Crutch.

Elizabeth Warren got brownie points from me last night for having the guts and the intelligence to make John Roberts read this question out loud for all perpetuity.  This is women making sure that when history is told, it’s told correctly.

Be sure to catch Robert’s face immediately after reading the question.

Okay, I’m fixing to shut down the computer.

The last I heard Lamar Alexander will vote no to witnesses.  Susan Collins will vote yes.

Romney will be the only other yes vote.   They will be all over Murkowki to vote no.  She is so damn worthless.

See ya tomorrow.

Today, Adam Schiff had a mic drop moment when he was addressing Trump’s lawyers’ assertion that the House should have gone to court to enforce subpoenas to get Trump’s people to testify.  At the very same time they were making that argument on the floor of the Senate, Barr’s DOJ lawyers were in court arguing the House didn’t have the ability to use the courts to enforce their subpoenas.  When the judge asked the DOJ lawyers what alternative the House had, the answer was…wait for it…impeachment.  Schiff was masterful.  Watch it here:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/senate-stunned-as-schiff-reveals-doj-just-argued-in-court-that-defying-subpoenas-is-an-impeachable-offense/

James Dannenbaum was known as a political Sugar Daddy, or maybe whore depending on how you looked at it, all around Texas.

He had no political core values.  He just gave to people who could hire his engineering company to do government business.  His political money went from congressmen to county commissioners.  At the county commissioner level, they get to award “professional contracts” without any bidding process to architectural, engineering, and legal firms.  That’s why county commissioner is the most easily corruptible political office in Texas.

Well, James Dannenbaum finally got caught.  I interviewed him years ago for the newspaper. I’ll tell you the story sometime, but he tried to wiggle his way out of a little jam by talking about all his church work and his charities.  Of course, he only gave them about 10% of what he scammed.

So, the wheels of justice, which buys lots of lawyers, finally rolled over Dannenbaum.  Late last year —

A former University of Texas regent pleaded guilty Friday to circumventing federal election law in 2017, characterizing the plea as a solemn turning point in his 80-year life otherwise centered on family, church and philanthropic work.

Houston resident James Dannenbaum, the former CEO of a prominent Texas engineering firm, admitted to a federal judge he illegally reimbursed employees for donations to a candidate for the U.S. Senate and two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. He pleaded guilty to making contributions between $10,000 and $25,000 in the names of other people.

He’s due for sentencing on March 5th.  His lawyers have already announced they may have to adjust his hearing for his expected heart surgery.

Oh yeah.  Of course.

And then his lawyers filed this today. They want to know the sentences received by other 80 year olds.

Y’all, I know this man.  I have seen what he’s done. He has a bad heart, in more ways than one.  He’s had 80 years of fun, two years of paying for it won’t kill him.