05-28-2023, 01:01 PM
AllGold wrote:
The House vote to impeach was overwhelming so I doubt the Senate vote will fail to convict.
I’m not so sure. This is Texas, and R’s are tossing one of their own. At least up until recently, Paxton was supported (indeed, celebrated!) by Abbott, the governor, and by the head of the Texas GOP. (I thought it was funny that the factor which finally got the ball rolling was not the various misdeeds of the AG, which happened before, but when he settled a lawsuit with four of those whistleblowers whom he fired, and sent the $3+M settlement bill to the legislature to pay.)
Paxton is following the Trump handbook to a T, though. He calls the impeachment “illegal, unethical, and profoundly unjust”, as if the impeachment procedure they followed is something the legislature just made up out of thin air. He also blamed the whole thing on “Democrats and RINOs”.
Uh-huh.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Props to the Republicans who finally got tired of this guy’s schtick.