It looks like the House Intelligence Committee is about to wrap up its part in the impeachment inquiry. After taking the testimony of a bunch of civil servants willing to put themselves through the ordeal and one political appointee who is wealthy enough not to care what republicans think about his perfidy, Adam Schiff and the democrats on the committee have elicited not a smoking gun, but an artillery battery of evidence the president* conducted a bribery scheme to force the government of Ukraine to announce an investigation of a political rival.
Needless to say, bribery is front and center as a "high crime and misdemeanor" as written in the US Constitution. Meanwhile republicans are doing everything in their power to throw distractions into the process. Aside from a few fanatics and opportunists; Jim Jordan is poster boy for the former and Elise Stefanik for the latter, most republicans privately abhor the president's* behavior and would gladly oust him if the political and economic cost was not so high. Even retiring GOPers are hesitant to criticize tRump for fear the wingnut welfare system will shun them in retirement. Thanks to his iron grip on the mostly racist base of the modern republican party, tRump can thumb his nose at the rule of law and will be safe from prosecution if he can win the 2020 election. This possibility is what animates the zombie GOP.
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