1. No one's invited me on @msnbc or @cnn for a bit but if I was on there to give my 2 cents on impeachment

0. That's the prob of 17 Rs voting for impeachment

Romney almost certainly

Q is will @SenatorCollins have pulled off duping Maine voters completely again or is there

2. small shred shred of the "bipartisan/fair maverick person her campaign so adeptly presents to Maine's atypically high % of Indie voters. The @SenatorCollins campaign is really lucky that I didn't have the connections I have today 6 mths ago bc if so, those Collins=Trump ads

3. would have been the theme of the Gideon campaign no Biden voter would have been confused as to what a down ballot @SenatorCollins vote bought them. In the initial wake @lisamurkowski was ready to quit the party she damn well knows she can't recognize anymore & is humiliated by

4. daily. But emotions settle and rationality returns. Hold the impeachment vote later, after the long investigation so called Republican reformer @NancyMace needed to vote yes on impeachment (this "reformer is now 0-2 on integrity votes proving once again how easy it is to be a

5. change maker in theory only) in the House & @RepLizCheney's adherence to the Constitution & the rule of law *might* not override fear of a WY primary even though it is far in the future esp bc her "leader" (if there was ever a person that "leads from behind, it is @GOPLeader!"

6. literally lets low level show horse chumps like Matt Gaetz show up in his top-notch work horse member's states to stage media circuses. Cheney's balls are at least 100Xs larger than McCarthy's and if the GOP hadn't gerrymandered themselves into a bunch of legislators that

7. aren't "catering to their base" or "held hostage to their base" they ARE their base! They are personally ideologically NUTS then they'd have someone like @Liz_Cheney running their show & not be stuck w the worst speaker in waiting in the history of the Chamber. A man whose

8. only job, ostensibly, is to ensure Trump & Sean Hannity are happy. But I digress- the senate. Despite Trump's indisputable guilt in the very serious crime of extorting the Ukrainian prez to get him to smear Biden in the 2020, both @Murkowski & @Collins violated their oaths of

9. office. Surely, they avoid thinking of it this way. They push this frame down deep, deep inside & avoid thinking of THAT episode at all. But it still festers in there & if they saw this thread, it would pinge that terrible, hidden ball of betrayal guilt bc deep in there, both

10. women DO care about the Constitution & hate knowing they violated that oath. And they probably hate having to look at @MittRomney everyday- a living breathing reminder of their own betrayal & the reminder that there was another option. This probably the case for a few of

11. them: @robportman, @SenJohnThune, @SenatorBurr, @SenToomey, @LeaderMcConnell. The video of Leader McConnell in the immediate days- he knows what's right. He knows if he acquits this man he will simultaneously commit his own assault on the institution he loves. And if he's no

12. I'll be shocked if more than Romney votes yes again. Maybe, maybe Collins, Romney, Murkowski, Toomey. You'd like to think, going out the door Portman & Burr. But I can see them all grab the bullshit "process" lie about not impeaching post-presidency, they all love a good

13. process lie excuse. I do have faith in Romney! Here's what I would suggest though. I would suggest making that little nugget of betrayal of oath of office as hard to swallow & suppress as possible. How do you do that @jamie_raskin @RepSwalwell @JoaquinCastrotx @tedlieu

14. You frame everything on that oath. They have no legal obligation to serve as an impartial jury, as they would in a court. They are, sadly, free to ignore all of the evidence & acquit bc Trump is a Republican & part of their team. But, technically speaking, they can not do so

15. and still honor their oath of office. As soon as they cast those acquittals, they have betrayed their oaths & deserted their country in her hour of greatest need. That's the argument I'd hit them with. Ideological conservatives have these massive patriotism identities. Make

16. personally feel like they are traitors to their country unless they convict him. No other argument will get you anywhere close to 17.