You Get What You Pay For

 

In the lead up to Donald Trump's 2nd impeachment trial, Li'l Donnie has been having trouble getting legal representation. Even lawyers have standards. 

1) Being associated with a guy who incited an angry mob to run riot in an insurrection against the US Government is not a good look for a reputable law firm. 

2) Lawyers still have to be accountable to the facts. Trump's last legal team hit the road because Li'l Donnie insisted his impeachment defense be centered around the great lie that the election was rigged and fraudulent. 

3) Lawyers expect to get paid. Donald Trump has a bad habit of stiffing people on money he owes them. Trump refused to pay Rudy Giuliani for his time. 

So when the client has a sullied reputation, an aversion to the truth and a propensity to not pay, the pool of available legal representation becomes very narrow and quite shallow. 

Which brings us to Bruce Cantor. 

Cantor's opening remarks were a source of confusion and frustration.  

“There is no argument. I have no idea what he’s doing. I have no idea why he’s saying what he’s saying,” said Alan Dershowitz who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial.  

GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Castor “just rambled on and on and on."

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Trump’s team did a “terrible job” and was “disorganized,” “random” and “did everything they could but to talk about the question at hand.”

GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was “perplexed” by Castor, “who did not seem to make any arguments at all, which was an unusual approach to take.”

Of course, why should Donald Trump pay good money for actually good lawyers when the fix is in.

There is video of Donald Trump egging the amassed rally to go to the Capitol and show everyone whose boss.

We have rioters saying on camera that Trump told them to carry out the attack.

Yet most Republican senators say they’re not convinced Trump incited the insurrection that day.

Others take issue with Trump being impeached now that he's out of office. If that thinking prevails, we set a dangerous precedent that an outgoing President can do all sorts of bad shit on his way out the door and there will be fuck all that Congress can do about it.

And in a replay from Trump Impeachment#1, Republican senators are barely paying attention as the House impeachment managers made their arguments for impeachment.

Senators talked among themselves, some were seen doodling or reading, some taking a nap.

The Republican Party is still sucking so hard of Donald Trump's back side because their own personal hold on political party supersedes any obligation to truth or to justice. As long as the cult of Trump is appeased, the Republicans in Congress can hold on to their phoney baloney jobs. 

This is the government you get when so called political leaders subvert integrity for power. 

Well, you get what you pay for.