Posted on 01/31/2020 8:27:37 AM PST by Red Badger
Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein blasted Senate Republicans on the eve of their vote to determine whether or not witnesses will be allowed in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
"The Senate of the United States, through the Republican leadership and membership, has now joined hands with a tyrant," said Bernstein. "We now have a precedent that's been set, especially if we're going to follow this new catechism, this cult of Trump that professor Dershowitz has advanced, this catechism that he cannot abuse his power. So, totally different situation than what happened in Watergate, because in Watergate the real heroes were Republicans who stopped tyranny."
Republicans and Democrats fiercely clashed over the prospect of new witnesses in the Senate trial. Sens. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney announced they will vote in favor of witnesses while Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander said he would vote against allowing new witnesses to address the body.
That leaves Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski as the key remaining Republican left to decide a crucial step for Democrats in the trial. If Murkowski sides with Democrats to allow witnesses, her vote would likely push the final count to an even 50-50 tie. Analysts suggest this hypothetical situation would allow Republicans to claim victory and block witnesses from appearing.
Bernstein, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal that ended President Richard Nixon's term in the Oval Office, has called Trump's impeachment trial a "cover-up" and said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has "impeded facts from the beginning."
Carl Bernstein is truly vile.
Look up the word "tyrant", Carl. I don't think it means what you think it means.
You were reading my mind, weren’t you?
Woodward is tolerable, but Bernstein is an ass......................
And they haven’t even voted yet. Anyone want to guess what they’re going to be like if the vote doesn’t go their way?
Bruce Springsteen
“Glory Days”
I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was
Glory days well they’ll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
Well there’s a girl that lives up the block
Back in school she could turn all the boys’ heads
Sometimes on a Friday I’ll stop by
And have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
I guess it’s two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times
She says when she feels like crying
She starts laughing thinking about
Glory days well they’ll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight
And I’m going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of
Glory days well they’ll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
Well they’ll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days
You know the opioid epidemic is a lot worse than expected when the Nazi “democrats” throw THEIR impeachment monkey on the backs of the GOP and demand that the GOP overthrow the President of the United States.
As far as I am concerned, Carl Bernstein can go fornicate with himself. Hopefully he will give himself a social disease.
Like 2016 on steroids......................
Bernstein does not like tyrants. But he is perfectly fine with “stroke of the pen, law of the land”.
How is that possible? The democrat-led House made the case “from the beginning.” The Senate deliberates with all the “evidence” and facts gathered from the House’s investigation and testimony.
stfu Karl
Bernstein is the journalistic equivalent of Garfunkel.
You ever notice that whenever a GOP president is in office, they wheel out this old cadaver who once claimed to be a journalist? Every time.
Watergate is coming on 50 years ago. FIFTY. Imagine if during Watergate coverage they brought out reporters who covered the scandals of the Warren G. Harding Administration. That’s precisely what this is like. Seriously.
They’ll never stop pretending every new thing is another Watergate because it’s the meal ticket for these washed-up has-beens. It’s old. It’s tired. It doesn’t work.
Sorry, clowns. it’s over.
Carl who?
Isn’t he the manager of the Tastee Freeze on Main Street in Deluth?
This guy has been a fraud his whole life.
He took down Nixon for the good of the nation.
He then sat on his hands through the Clinton’s and Obama’s antics, to get a voice again under Trump.
I thought that Nixon did enough to get him impeached, but his actions were less than 1% of the actions of the Clintons and Obama. And as for Trump, he has done nothing wrong, except defeat the democRats and do what is right for our nation.
Veteran Investigator?
love that tune...
Here is what Bernstein is really saying: “Look at me! I’m still relevant. Look at me!”
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