You have to go back at least a generation, and perhaps Dan Quayle, before you find a vice president who has been as irrelevant as Mike Pence.

Rather than obsess over absurd conspiracy theories, Americans should be proud of a federal workforce which shows up every day to perform cutting-edge research, investigate accidents, care for our national parks, and administer any number of federal programs which make a positive difference for millions of your fellow American citizens.

Donald Trump and his lawyers have urged for Hunter Biden – former vice president Joe Biden’s son – to be questioned in the impeachment trial, arguing the Bidens participated in corrupt activities while working for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Imagine that, a Trump supporter fact-checked in real-time on Fox News. Now, if this attitude really could spread, to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fox News would actually earn the "News" in its name.

Essentially, you have an 80s-style televangelist a la Jim and Tammy Bakker, who has direct access to the president of the United States on the basis of apparently little more than she's an attractive blonde who happens to have a religious credential.

Americans may well--and should--vote out those senators who have protected Trump.

Mike Bloomberg this week began running a new ad urging lawmakers to vote to remove Trump from office. The 30-second ad will run in 27 states, including Colorado, Maine, Arizona, and North Carolina, where Republican senators are facing difficult re-election efforts.

In a video posted onto his twitter, Republican Senator Ted Cruz addressed his follower regarding the House's decision to send the articles to the Senate for a trial, referring to the ongoing impeachment trial as a "circus."

What Democrats, be they Joe Biden or anyone else, is why even think that they can pander to the Trumplicans?

It is unamerican. It is also insulting and demeaning for officials from the Trump administration to use the guise of a classified briefing on military action against Iran to tell senators, in Lee's words, "we need to be good little boys and girls and run along and not debate this in public."