There were times last night, especially during the orchestrated bits with people in the audience, when I felt like I was watching a Robert Altman movie.
Rick Reilly wrote a column imagining the practices of Congress applied to sports, specifically the Super Bowl. He then presented a scenario in which the officials walk out onto the field next Sunday and announce the 49ers the winners. The decision has been made, they say, there is no reason to play the game.
The impeachment trial and the Australian Open are going on simultaneously. They both make for riveting TV, though with the tennis you don't know how it will end.
Yesterday afternoon I got an email from Trump. It wasn’t the first, which didn’t make it any less strange. I’ve never gotten an email from a president I voted for. And it didn’t carry his email address, unless it’s @trendingconservatism.com. But it carried his name in the subject head, and at the bottom of the letter, which asked me for money. “I want to raise two million dollars in the next 24 hours to show the Left that the American people want this witch hunt to end.”
Why the president thinks he needs money to stop the impeachment trial – or why he needs money at all – is beyond me. But it seems to me that an innocent president who was wrongly accused of crimes and misdemeanors would not be asking fellow Americans for money.