© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesArticles of Impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump are formally carried through the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol by officials from the U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate on January 15, 2020 in Washington, DC.
As they like to say in the horror movie trailers:
It... begins...! (Cue bassoons and waterphones.)
If last Wednesday's
solemn and prayerful parade through the Capitol rotunda was the Democratic Party's funeral march, then impeachment starting this week may be the burial service. Central casting couldn't have found a more perfect funeral director than the grave and genteel Mitch McConnell.
Of course, the Democrats have been screeching for new witnesses because Adam Schiff (D-CA) muffed his due diligence on the House side. The tactical fallback, courtesy of Lawfare, is to provoke a legal pissing match over executive privilege, which they hope to turn into a campaign ploy in the months ahead:
Trump concealed the truth! This time, though, I doubt the Senate rules will give them a chance to run option plays from the Brett Kavanaugh playbook, flooding the end zone with obvious geeks and bottom-feeders of the Michael Avenatti species.
And, naturally, the witness question beats a path directly to the Bidens. Open that door and there is really nothing on God's green earth that will keep Hunter B out of the witness chair. In which case he will have to reiterate what he said in a TV interview a few months back — they'll play the recording in-session — which is that he got the $83-K-a-month do-nothing gig on the Burisma board-of-directors because he was the Vice-president's son. Or he can change his story and cast himself as a liar. It would not be necessary to call Joe Biden, just submit in evidence that recording of him bragging on how he strong-armed the Ukrainians to shut down their Burisma investigation by threatening to withhold a billion-dollar aid-and-loan package. Hmmmm. Sounds suspiciously like what Mr. Trump is accused of, absent evidence.
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