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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, November 8, 2019

Morons

I think the GOP strategy on impeachment has been pretty predictable.  Attack the process. When the Democrats address those concerns, decide that quid pro quo isn't a quid pro quo or a crime at all.

But eventually the sheer tonnage of evidence will break the dam.  They will need a new stratagem to protect Dear Leader.  Especially if Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman testify to save their skins, they could provide damning details about what Giuliani was doing.  That means sacrificing Giuliani to save Trump.  Pin it all on him and say he was acting as a rogue agent.

Two problems.  First, it would admit that the Ukraine ploy was illegal.  It clearly was, but they've been trying to hem and haw and count on the protection of Fox News to keep from having to admit that what Trump did to Zelenskyy was illegal and corrupt.

The second problem is that there is ample evidence from Trump's own mouth of his working with Giuliani.  Trump and Giuliani's rank idiocy has endlessly complicated any consistent defense of Trump.  It's like the scene in A Few Good Men where Caffey gets Jessup to admit to the Code Red.

Except it's happening over and over and over again.

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