As JJ talked about on Saturday, Moscow Mitch voted along with 42 other Republicans to acquit Trump, which was expected.  What wasn’t expected was that after the vote, he got up in front of national television and then excoriated Trump for his incitement of the crowd to insurrection and even said that he could be prosecuted by state and federal authorities.  He also said that it was unconstitutional for the Senate to try him, since he’s already out of office.  Never mind that history, precedent, and over 200 legal scholars disagreed, this was the tree he hid behind to excuse his immoral vote to acquit.

We also have to keep in mind that McConnell always plays the long game, always focused on his own position and power.  He was never going to vote to convict because doing so would start a loud mutiny and he’d be ridden out of his minority leader spot in a nanosecond.  Also, politics comes first; everything else comes second.  Everything.  McConnell’s strategy is to create a political dilemma for Biden.  McConnell always had control of the process here.  He now says it was unconstitutional to try Trump after he was out of office, but HE’S the one who refused to take the case before the election.  He created the problem he says in unfixable.  That’s classic McConnell.  Second, he says that the criminal justice system should prosecute Trump – and guess who’s shoulders that falls on?  None other than Biden, who has already nominated Merrick Garland as AG.  The moment Garland would dare move against Trump, McConnell would rush to the microphone to decry “criminalizing politics” and “Biden “politicizing the DOJ,” which, by the way, Trump had already done.

It’s the long game.  It’s always the long game.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen came across something he thought you might enjoy knowing.  Remember Donald Trump’s and Richard Nixon’s best friend and confidant, Roger Stone?  Who could forget, right?

Well, he’s decided to take his pardon out for a test drive to see how far it will take him.

My phone has been dinging like a bad hand bell choir with question about what the hell is Mitch Connell doing?

Mitch is forever a hypocrite.

He votes against impeachment and then gives a “Lock ‘em up!” speech afterwards.

He refuses to hold an impeachment trial while Trump is in office and then votes not guilty because he’s not in office.

He blocks Merrick Garland 237 days before an election but then confirms Amy Coney Barrett 8 days before an election when 65 million people had already voted.

Grrrrrrr …

I just loved when Trump’s lawyer/vaudeville actor van der Veen screamed, “handcuff me!”  The level of weirdness this guy brings to the table is outstanding.

Now they are threatening to call Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris .  First, no Hillary? Second, Honey, I would pay cash money to watch van der Veen cross examine Nancy or Kamala.  I would and you would, too.

I’ve been running around getting ready for this atrosity.

I did not know there was such a thing as 12 degrees. Well, I did but only intellectually. I’ve been wrapping pipes, covering big plants and bringing the rest of them inside to survive. We don’t do 12 degrees on the Gulf coast. Ya’ll there’s an 80% chance of snow in Galveston. It’s an island. You could get trapped there in snow.  Will boats float on snow? I dunno. I’ve never had the opportunity to do that.

Meanwhile, I just sat down to read the newspapers and I’ll be damn, The Washington Post finally caught up with me.  Sure ‘nuff, Trump knew for a fact that Pence had been moved because Tommy Damn Tuberville was on the phone with Trump and told him so.  So, when Trump tweeted about Pence’s lack of courage, we all know who lacked courage.

Mounting evidence emerging as former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate this week indicates Trump may have been personally informed that Vice President Mike Pence was in physical danger during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, just moments before denigrating him on Twitter.

In my mind, any senator voting against impeachment is guilty of complicity, but I guess driving the get away car keeps them too busy to listen or read newspapers.

This is the best argument for impeachment.

“I’m not afraid of Donald Trump running again in four years,” said Lieu. “I’m afraid he’s going to run again and lose, because he can do this again.”

As far as I am concerned, that right there is enough.