re: #90 Jay C

No, I think they have, and still do. They just don’t care.

AFAICT, to the Senate GOP, the whole impeachment affair is just another piece of political theater: a show conducted mainly for themselves and their “base”; and their main piss-off seems to be that reality doesn’t seem to be following their script.

Mitch McConnell has gotta be the worst week of his life right now. He put together this entire farce in what he likely believed was total cooperation from the WH, setting it up in a way to avoid any votes that would put his caucus at odds with The Don. And since last week, he’s been patting the “moderates” on the back and assuring them that if they could just get through til the end of this week, it would all be over and they’d no longer have impeachment hanging over their heads.

Then Sunday happened…and his entire plan went to shit. The WH had been lying to him for weeks, sitting on info that he now realizes means that vote in 1-2 days on witnesses went from “relatively painless” to “career-ending.” And now those “moderates” and even some of the reliable votes are screaming in his ear, demanding to know whether he knew Trump was lying to them. And the cherry atop this shitcake is that WH is just plowing forward like they don’t give a shit, they want this over and expect the Senate to make it happen.