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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

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Pelosi Holds All The Cards

When it comes to the trial in the Senate, every day that goes by increases the pressure to allow a real trial. As Martin Longman explains, when every day seems to bring some new revelation, the following options appear to McConnell:

1) Allow the House Managers to call the witnesses that stonewalled the impeachment hearings in the House and risk a steady erosion in support for the President.

2) Stop them from calling witnesses, acquit the President and then watch as revelation after revelation makes them look like criminal co-conspirators.


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