How a once good man dies:

[volstork]

From Charlie Pierce:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a30727487/lamar-alexander-impeachment-witnesses-senate-trial/


"Alexander is being a poltroon on so many different levels here. In addition to arguing that a guilty president* is guilty but should go unpunished, Alexander is claiming that the solution to a ratfcked election is to hope the next one isn’t ratfcked. Good Christ, what a waste of a handsome piece of office furniture in the Senate chamber this man has turned out to be."

[CaptYossarian]

1. Trump doesn't need to own any pets. He's got more lapdogs than Betty White.

[BeckyDem]

2. He was a good man? Talk about a low bar.

Summary of voting record: Senator Alexander OPPOSES taxing businesses, restrict money in politics, consumer protection, funding education, environmental protection, financial sector regulation, gun control, hawkish foreign policy, public health, foreign and humanitarian aid, humane immigration policy, labor rights and wages, lgbt rights, internet freedom, poverty amelioration, increasing revenues, taxing the wealthy, a robust safety net and supports big business, disaster relief, taxing the middle class, military spending, avoiding default, domestic surveillance.

http://politicsthatwork.com/voting-record/Lamar-Alexander-300002

[volstork]

4. He was a fairly good

governor back in the 70s and 80s. Has increasingly become a tool since then. They all go full-on crooked once they hit the senate on the puke side.

[BeckyDem]

5. I hope more voters realize that each of these Republicans is not going to vote to

improve the lives of anyone but the wealthy. They have a long history of destroying our system of government, the entire Reagan mantra that government is bad was their pathway to deregulation. Now we have a planet that needs serious people to step up and do what is right, none of these crooks will do that.

[crickets]

3. poltroon - a spiritless coward : CRAVEN. Yep, nailed it. nt

[dalton99a]

6. Decent Republicans are long dead and buried.

[TruckFump]

7. I emailed Alexander with the above.

Shame on him.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Lamar can't afford to piss off his GOP comrades. It will kill his worth as a lobbyist.