Mitch McConnell on Dems sending impeachment articles to Senate: They posed afterwards for smiling photos. And the Speaker distributed souvenir pens to her own colleagues, emblazoned with her own golden signature..a souvenir to celebrate the moment--
This body, this chamber, exists precisely so that we can look past daily dramas and understand how our actions will reverberate for generations. ‘So that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities, and coolly consider how to best serve our country
The House’s hour is over. The Senate’s time is at hand. It is time for this proud body to honor our founding purpose.
Only the Senate, with “confidence enough in its own situation,” can “preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers.”