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Our Ailing Republic
Kurdistan, Ukraine, kids in cages — are we really better than that?
There were several times in the impeachment hearings today, November 21, when various persons were unloading burdens of right and wrong that would make any reporting for personal advantage seem, at a minimum, out of place. For that reason, I’ll be very brief.
When Congressman Adam Schiff delivered himself of closing remarks at the end of today’s hearings, the whack of the gavel should have been a mic drop. After summarizing the evidence of U.S. security interests being compromised for either domestic political advantage or to purchase some sort of forbearance from Vladimir Putin, Schiff ended with the words of a man I expect the House of Representatives is missing already, Elijah Cummings: We are better than this!
Hope springs eternal, and listening to the government employees who answered lawful subpoenas against the express order of the POTUS, and understanding that Mr. Trump’s defenders made no attack on the facts they recited, it’s rational to hope that some critical mass of Republicans would observe the personal attacks on the witnesses that substituted for any meaningful cross examination….and shame would take over?
What has become of us when answering a subpoena takes courage?
