Okay, get a load of this.

Susan Collins sent a handwritten note to Chief Justice Roberts at the end of Jerry Nadler’s speech on Tuesday night.  Minutes later, Roberts chastised both sides.

Now, imagine for a moment that a Democrat sent a secret handwritten message to the Chief Justice.  Sean Hannity would bust a vein in his neck and Moscow Mitch would start babbling hate speech in Russian.

Collins was reluctant to acknowledge any contribution to the remarkable rebuke of the parties arguing the impeachment trial. When she came off the floor about 2 a.m. ET Wednesday, a reporter told her that she was seen handing a note up to the dais, to the parliamentarian, she replied coyly: “Who me? I did that?”

She said that? She did? And she expects me not to be outraged by it?

By the way, I am delighted that Adam Schiff’s remarkable speech last night was aimed at the American people and not the Republican senators because (1) the American people understood it and (2) Collins ain’t gonna do crap and I seriously doubt that Romney will either.

Okay, y’all, Ted Cruz, that master of communication and Harvard debater, is talking about something usually left in locker rooms.  And you’d think that Sean Hannity would know that.  Not that Cruz or Hannity have ever been in a locker room, but …

No, guys, it’s pound the facts, not bang the facts. Bang means something else entirely.  You know, like mattress wrestling or getting frisky.  It means that.

However, it’ll be lots of fun to see a bunch of old white guys talk about banging facts and law.  In truth, it’s probably a confession because that’s exactly what they they are doing.

I can’t believe he said that.  He’s a lawyer, for goodness sake.

Trump’s accomplishments in Davos:

1. Announced “reforms” (translation: cuts) to Social Security and Medicare will come early in his next term.
2. Announced further unwinding of EPA clean water rules to allow more free fouling of our waterways, returning to the bad old days.
3. Complained that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have not been awarded the Pulitzer prize.  Yes, you read that correctly.
4. Downplayed brain injuries to US servicemen who were in bunkers on the base attacked by Iranian missiles.
5. Called his Senate trial on impeachment a hoax (for the thousandth time).

Here endeth the lesson.

In Davos yesterday, Trump bragged to the press on global television that he has withheld documents from Congress, saying, “…we have all the material; they don’t have the material.”  Knowing that the fix is in, he is blatantly boasting about getting away with impeachable behavior, and he’s doing it in front of the entire world.

Tarrant County (think Fort Worth) Republicans decided it would be a fun thing to march in the MLK parade. So, they all got together, somebody picked up the sign, most of them found something red to wear, and off they went to … be real cute and flash the OK sign for a group picture. On MLK day. On film. On Facebook. In the newspaper.

The GOP group apologized and acknowledged it was an inappropriate gesture for the setting.

“For the setting?”  But, yeah, it’s real okay any other time.

Okay, here’s the Republican rules: the white power sign must be holstered on MLK Day.

Very early this morning, Mitch McConnell rammed through his rules avoiding a vote on witnesses and documents until AFTER the House and Trump’s goons present their cases.  The only small victory for the House was him caving to “moderate” Senators who forced him to extend the time for case presentations and allowing evidence already presented.  This vote tactic has become a standard fare for McConnell, dragging proceedings out into the wee hours of the morning and holding votes when most Americans are in bed.  Remember he did the same thing when he tried to kill the ACA; McCain’s midnight thumbs down was the only thing that stopped him.

Yesterday was a circus.  Schiff and his team presented clear, detailed evidence of Trump’s criminal activity, alternating with Trump’s lawyers acting like chimpanzees hurling their own feces at zoo visitors.  Their behavior was shocking to the senses with the WH counsel and Jay Sekulow actually shouting at the senators; their case strategy is primarily yelling “Nuh Uh!” to every bit of evidence presented by the House team.  Knowing that the fix is in, they’re not even trying to present a defense, preferring to play full time to their audience of one.

This is a very high risk strategy for McConnell and the Republicans, including Susan Lucy Collins, who is voting in lockstep with her party.  As Schiff said in his arguments, the truth WILL come out.  The suppressed evidence will become public, and every single witness will eventually tell the truth, either in books or television interviews.  The tragedy will be that it will then be too late to remove Trump by impeachment.  If (when) he’s voted out of office, he won’t go quietly, and it’s a virtual guarantee that he won’t go quietly knowing that he’ll then be facing a lifetime of trying to stay out of, or get out of jail.

This is now all on McConnell and the rest of the Republicans enabling this lunatic.  Hopefully millions of Americans who are glued to Dancing with the Stars and America’s Got Talent, will be able to pry themselves away from their television pablum long enough to go vote.  I’m not hopeful.