Donald and Nancy: one last dance.
Sure she is.
Nancy is being quite generous. She’s giving President Trump three options:
- Resign now or tomorrow.
- Be replaced by Mike Pence under the 25th Amendment.
- Be impeached.
She’s got enough votes to impeach the President on Wednesday. Her caucus is on board, also Liz Cheney (third-ranked House Republican), Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois), and John Katko (R-NY). Liz Cheney said this:
The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.
(Liz sounds like she’s bucking for an anchor position at MSNBC, but I digress.)
To paraphrase Strother Martin: “What we got here, is a failure to hold the caucus together.”
Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump has chosen this moment to double down defending his actions of Wednesday: “People thought what I said was totally appropriate.”
Okay, Mr. President, maybe some people. But many who are less pig-headed think what you said was indefensible. And since you’ve ruled out being contrite, or offering up an apology (there’s a surprise), your current stance isn’t working well for you.
Rumors circulate that many congressional Republicans aren’t pleased with today’s comments and some additional GOP passengers may clamber on the impeachment express, that Mitch McConnell has gone rogue, and that tomorrow a bi-partisan Article of Impeachment will pass the House of Representatives.
Proving, if more proof is needed, that Nancy Pelosi knows what she’s doing.
Meanwhile, more ugly videos of the festivities from last Wednesday keep popping onto the TV and internet, roiling the emotions of the public and various congress persons who thought they were, six days back, close to being injured or killed, even as you watched the proceedings at the White House like it was a reality show … and didn’t bother to return calls from Republicans sheltering in the Capitol.
Mr. President, the best thing right now would be to cut a deal with House and Senate (also Pence?) and simply go quietly into that good night. But since you don’t seem inclined to do the sensible thing (the last ten months provide ample evidence that sensible isn’t even on the third tier of your vocabulary), we’ll just have to endure one final week of fire and fury.
Which is kind of where we came in four years ago, now that I think about it.
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