So, we have one Republican senator working a crossword during the hearing, one with an I-Phone

[Atticus]

(contrary to THEIR rules), one in the hall doing a Fox interview while case being presented and a dozen or more Republicans who simply walked out during part of Adam Schiff's presentation.

LISTENING being a part of any serious "deliberation", they can stuff that "world's greatest deliberative body" BS!

[Ohiogal]

1. Why aren't they being reprimanded?

They just get away with anything!

[defacto7]

7. Why aren't they reprimanded? No one can reprimand them.

They just get away with anything? Yep, that's what they do.

[onenote]

12. Because they aren't breaking any "rule"

There is no rule requiring their attendance, either in the Constitution, the Senate's standing rules governing impeachment, or even the "decorum guidelines" issued by McConnell and Schumer. Those guidelines state that Senators "should plan on being in attendance at all times" -- a particularly wishy washy statement that falls far short of saying that Senators "must" be in attendance at all times.

[treestar]

2. If the Democrats were acting

That partisan there would be nonstop media coverage

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[C_U_L8R]

3. They have names.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Mike 03]

9. +2

[Tanuki]

5. The same one who tweeted the crossword puzzle (Moscow Marsha Blackburn)

also skipped out on Tuesday to do a live interview on Fox. She apparently thinks laws don't apply to her or her ilk.

[defacto7]

8. Right now they are the law and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

That's the ugly fact.

[Lars39]

6. One doing a Fox interview (Marsha Blackburn)

25 or so in the cloakroom.

[Initech]

11. They don't care. At all.

[lpbk2713]

13. Rules are for the little people.

That is how they have always seen it.

[diva77]

14. Let her know what you think [phone] plus SIX Offices in Tennessee for her!!!

My, my. In CA, we don't have that many offices per senator. So many people working so hard for Ms. Blackburn to live high on the hog and contribute NOTHING constructive to society.

Chattanooga
10 West M. L. King Blvd,
6th Floor
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone] [Call: [phone]]


Jackson
91 Stonebridge Blvd
Suite 103
Jackson, TN 38305
Phone: [phone] [Call: [phone]]
Fax: [phone] [Call: [phone]]


Memphis
100 Peabody Place
Suite 1125
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: [phone] [Call: [phone]]
Fax: [phone] [Call: [phone]]

Nashville
3322 West End Avenue Suite 610
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


Knoxville
800 Market Street
Suite 121
Knoxville, TN 37902
Phone: [phone] [Call: [phone]]
Fax: [phone] [Call: [phone]]


Tri-Cities
1105 East Jackson Blvd
Suite 4
Jonesborough, TN 37659
Phone: [phone] [Call: [phone]]
Fax: [phone] [Call: [phone]]

Here's from her press release on her webpage


Blackburn Statement on the Senate Impeachment Organizing Resolution
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

“First, the Democratic House impeachment managers told us the evidence against President Trump was ‘overwhelming.’ Right after, we heard there wasn’t enough evidence, and we would need to allow additional testimony in order to get it.

“House Democrats had ample opportunity to seek testimony from the witnesses they are now requesting, but they decided instead to rush through their unsubstantiated articles of impeachment. The Democrats are entangled in an intellectually dishonest effort to...SNIP