Crocodile Tears from the Republicans

 

The Republicans are all in on Crocodile Tears around unity, impeachment and deficits.

Regarding Impeachment: The Senate has moved, and 45 of their 50 Senators, voted that you cannot hold Impeach a President after office. This has a few problems:

1. Not legally true. But may be the out Republicans are looking for.
2. He was impeached WHILE in office. The Republicans of the Senate under Mitch put the Senate in recess for the last week so they would not receive the impeachment, nor would they hold a trial.
3. If you cannot impeach. a President AFTER office, then they can do anything either in the last month of his office or whenever, providing he resigns.
4. One of the results - and the one that Democrats proposed - is that the impeached President would be prohibited from running for President again. Tis option wouldn't be there if you could not find an ex-President guilty.

The Republican are all over Joe Biden that a bi-partisan relief bill would be great for unity. 

1. But the "bi-partisan" bill only the Republicans are pushing is 1/3 the size of the Democratic Bill. 
2. It would reduce the beneifts to Americans from $1,400 more to $1,000 more to fewer people (note: Ed and I get nothing either way from this, so you self-interest here).
3. The Republicans used a strict partisan only vote to cut taxes, so to claim bi-partisan is needed for unity is a stretch.
4. Republicans say the bill is too expensive, but under Trump they more than doubled the national debt only to give rich people a huge ass tax cut.

Unity and "process" were tossed out the window when the raced through a Supreme Court pick after stopping Obama's pick.

So, politely, fuck 'em.