I've had other things to worry about these last few days, and maybe my thinking is off because of that. Here, hough are some thouhts I have on what the Democratic Party on my behalf has to do about Tom Cotton and the 46 others who signed his letter.
First, this hasn't chaged in m mind: They all need o be removed from office, and not by standing for election. They need to be humiliated.
When I posted about impeachment, I was corrected that the Senate by itself has the power to expel its members. But it also isn't clear that on a level this large, the House couldn't (wre it not run by cowardly vipers) initiate an impeachment action itself.
I think I agree that this s the biggest argument yet that Joni Ernst should be court-martialed. Any deal short of expelling all 47 would have to include her submitting to military justice.
I know think this, like most rightest fantasies, is about money. That the whole point was to fund-raise off it. That doesn't mitigate the treason, but it does add a dissettling level of personal corruption to the deal. (Similarly, I think the Netanyahu speech was Boehner doing what Adelson told him to do as part of Adelson's efforts to influence that election. I this sense, Boehner was nothing more than an event advance guy or a political campaign. More to be pitied than scorned, scorned just the same.
I really don't give a crap about any of the examples I hear about the Dems being just a bad to Da Doo Ron Ron. They weren't. We all now that.
Interestingly re the Senate, despite the GOP majority, there is a means to discipline the group. Biden could simply stay there to preside each day and make it clear he will not call on any of the 47, that if McConnell ants to advance any agenda, he is going to have to choose someone who didn't sign the thing to obtain the floor and stuff. Just as a filibustering senator cant sit down because the President of the Senate could then call someone to the floor, the president of the Senate can simply ignore Cotton, McConnell, Ernst and the others.