Anyone who did not have the opportunity to listen to Adam Schiff do a summation of the day’s proceedings at the impeachment trial of Trump should feel sorry for themselves. Hopefully, this clip, no matter the results of this seeming sham of a trial, will have the same prominence as some of the other great speeches in US history. Over the past months, Schiff has already distinguished himself in my mind–and I hope the minds of many others–as an exemplar of a public servant, a Congressman, a statesman, a patriot. I knew little of him before the past year or so but now, there is no public official I hold in higher regard. And that’s even without knowing what he has ever done in Congress before the past year. Tonight’s presentation, done essentially without reading notes, was simply brilliant. Frankly, it deserved to be heard by a more august body of people than the Republican-dominated Senate. Through their comments ever since the prospect of the trial arose, the Republican senators have shown themselves to be beneath contempt–and that includes those so-called four or so “moderates” who have hemmed and hawed about what they might do but who have shown no balls/guts/patriotism before and almost definitely won’t here either. Schiff stands so far above puny figures like Cruz, Rand Paul…there’s really no point in specifying because he stands above all of them. One in particular is the wonderful Marsha Blackburn of TN, who has made it her business to attack Alexander Vindman, a man who many of us would argue exemplifies what this country should be about. Patriotism, sacrifice, honesty, dignity….these are terms that are so far outside the reach of a hack like Blackburn that she ought to just crawl down the hole from which she came. I hope the people of TN are really proud of who they elected, being represented by her should be a real source of civic pride for them. Let’s just say it tells us a lot about the people of TN.
Anyway, come hell or high water–both of which this country is well on its way to reaching–Schiff deserves to be acclaimed as a true American hero.
Searching for the Full Moon 