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Originally Posted by Skybird

The mafia has rules and loyalties it follows. So have the Republicans.

This is a good explanation as to why the impeachment failed. Blaming compliant Republicans for it misses the very much larger issue. The real reason is the bumbling, incompetent manner in which it was prosecuted.

After the Senate rejected witnesses and effectively ended the impeachment trial on Friday, the media ignored the primary reason for the defeat, which is the insistence of House leaders to impeach Trump by Christmas. Critics of the president simply do not want to hear that the blind rush to impeach guaranteed not only an acquittal but an easy case for acquittal. It is after all important for some members of the media to maintain that fools dwell only in Republican red states.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciar...th-impeachment

This Skybird is much closer to the truth than your mafia analogy.

This very series of events was expressly laid out before the vote, and House Democrats made a decision to choose certain failure over completing their impeachment case. There was no reason to expect Senate Republicans to assist House managers in making their case, particularly in calling witnesses not subpoenaed by the House. Democrats had opposed any witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Clinton and voted as a bloc for a summary acquittal. There was no reason to expect Republicans to adopt an entirely different approach.

The left wing media's constant crowing about the brilliant strategies and elloquent talents of Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler are now a joke. Continuing to blame Republican Senators for the Democrat leadership's failure is a refusal to face reality.

The hard truth is that House Democrats lost this case the minute they rushed an impeachment vote, and they knew it. With the approaching Iowa caucuses, they chose a failed impeachment rather than taking a few more months to work on a more complete case against Trump, a case more difficult to summarily dismiss. That is the hard truth.