How I started my day:
At 6AM (PST) after a lousy night up at between 2 and 3 AM coughing incessantly what with the head cold and laryngitis which I’ve struggling with for a few days. I can’t talk. I sound like a hybrid of a bullfrog and James Earl Jones when I try to talk. I’ve I scream I think something will break in my throat. However, I can type and vent this way.
6:00 AM Had a cup of coffee and put in a laundry
6:10 Checked email and responded to a reply to a comment I put on CNET about burn-in on my LG OLED from watching MSNBC for many hours every day (left image is for TV techies here).
6:15 I tuned in to MSNBC where Ali Melber was interviewing Allen Dershowitz, and then his guests including Maya Wiley who were quite restrained in characterizing Dershowitz as turning legal logic into pretzel.
As Ari, who like Wiley, is a lawyer framed his questions to be polite “gotchas” I watched the self-satisfied slimeball smirk as he waiting to deliver what he no doubt thought would be a brilliant retort.
I’d like for the sake of alteration add the word “sycophant” to my string of S-words but I don't consider Dershowitz to be a member of the Trump cult. Dershowitz doesn’t have it in him to kiss anyone’s ass, let alone someone who he knows is too stupid to have actually done any or all of his work to graduate from a lesser Ivy League college than Harvard.
Dershowitz knows he misspoke when he made the legally asinine comment about how all presidents think that their reelection is in the national interest and thus anything they do to help win is likewise in the best interest of the country. If I followed his argument he is now saying he didn't mean to say that they could do anything, rather he meant to say that what Trump did didn't meet the constitutional requirements for conviction. Apparently he disputes that abuse of power is grounds for impeachment and conviction.
You be reasonable to think that if he could find any real and eminent constitutional scholars who supported the interpretations of Article 2 that say abuse of powers wasn’t grounds for impeachment he would have trotted them out by now.
It should suffice to note that Lawrence Tribe, who met that criteria to the satisfaction of the GOP members of the Judiciary Committee in the House impeachment hearing calling him to be their witness, called Derschowitz’s argument “alternative law” and said “Alan is completely wacko on this.”
Hell, I really don't care about the technicalities against his convoluted legal argument.
I just need to vent and what with the laryngitis I can’t scream at the TV.
So thanks for indulging me.
Update: