It’s pretty amazing that we live in a day and age when a sitting United States Senator can listen to evidence presented at trial and make a fair and impartial decision to convict based upon that evidence — and it is hot news, because he’s a Republican. Moreover, he’s brought down hell fire and brimstone from his state GOP party for being a man of integrity.
Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty. pic.twitter.com/ute0xPc4BH
— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) February 13, 2021
I have no idea where Cassidy was sitting when he recorded this, but the LSD trip cartoon backdrop pretty much fits in with the surreal impeachment proceeding. Trumpberry fields, nothing is real.
I thought the swamp was metaphorical. I guess not. The GOP draws murals of swamp creatures on the walls. All we need now is Bobby Jindal coming by riding a dinosaur. (He was a Louisiana congressman creationist, if the name doesn’t ring a bell.)
I do not understand the pressures politicians face to adhere to the party line. But I do recognize the courage do what is right. Salute.
— Benjamin Watson (@BenjaminSWatson) February 14, 2021
Thank you from Florida.
Unfortunately, neither of my senators is as principled as you are.
I just heard on the news the GOP in LA wants to censure you. Let 'em have at it. You are on the right side of history, and a clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Be Blessed.— G-Ma Cathy (@CathyWanza) February 14, 2021
Thank you for keeping your oath of office by putting honesty, integrity, law & order, and country first, sir.
History will show you made the right decision.
Thank you for doing your part to try to save Democracy.
— Cmango122 (@Cmango1221) February 14, 2021
And so history records the fact that a handful of Republican senators did what was right, and they are lauded as heroes for doing so, while the rest of their colleagues, the majority, are bums, hiding in the shadows, trembling in fear of Trump’s vaunted base. This is who we are in 2021.
I heard this morning that the GOP here in NC wants to censure Burr. I’ve never been a fan, and of course voted against him in 2016. I appreciated him semi-playing things straight when he chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee although it still seems he slow walked things. Still, I think the rapport between him and Warner (from VA) made for at least some semblance of cooperation and actual effort to look into the whole Russian interference business and though the final report wasn’t the damning indictment it could have and should have been it wasn’t a whitewash either. It was actually critical to a degree and indicated there were matters of significant concern. That’s probably the best we could have hoped for. Still, even knowing he was sticking to his plan to retire I was startled at his Guilty vote. It’s not exactly a ringing endorsement to say one of your Senators could have been worse, but when it comes to Burr we could have had a far worse Republican than him. His counterpart Tillis for example! I just wish Burr would have publicly said he was open towards, if not leaning to vote to convict. It might have put pressure on some other retiring GOP Senators and if a few of them had followed such a lead and we had 60 or more votes on the table? I truly believe we’d be deposing witnesses this very moment and that we might have actually had a shot at body slamming Trump and his “movement” with a conviction and barring from future office.
But as the old saying goes, “Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these – what might have been!”
It is really something, when people of the same political party have to either fall in line, or fear for their own and family’s safety.
Burr is retiring. It’s sad when we thank people for doing what’s right and Constitutional.
I thought Bobby Jindal was the Governor about 20 years ago an then a congressman.
Not quite. He was a member of the House–elected in 2004 then re-elected in 2006–until he ran for, and won the governorship in 2007 (he resigned from the House in Jan 2008 leading to the seat’s temporary vacancy) and was re-elected as governor in 2011.
Fun fact about his House service: As the representative from Louisiana’s 1st district, he served between David “Diapers” Vitter and current idiot Steve Scalise. It’s a bit odd since the district tilted even more GOP during that decade (Bush got 71% of the vote in 2004 and McCain picked up 73% in 2008 but in 2012, Romney slipped back to 71%). But since redistricting took effect in 2013, the district has gone less GOP in terms of the Presidency (in 2016, Trump only got 69% while, in 2020, he only got 65%) while the representative has generally outperformed the presidential GOPer in every election since 2004 except for 2012 (somehow, Scalise got just under 67%).
Trust me when I say Cassidy made a proactive move toward establishing himself for life as a LA GOP political force, if not a national one. He did the math, saw what happened to Trump’s handpicked gubernatorial candidate here, and seized the chance to repair the damage done by Trump w/educated voters—not that there are a lot of them here, but still—and our significant minority population.
Unlike Kennedy, that asshat, Cassidy not only recognizes the wind is changing here, he’s positioning himself ahead of the curve.
I believe you. It sounds totally plausible to me. Witness what happened in Georgia. Why should Louisiana not follow suit?