they couldn t get anyone striking up the band for impeachment. if cnn can t find someone in wisconsin, you know it s bad for the democrats. the democrats did bank, of course, on career civil servants bringing the drama in the hill hearings. got four more today. last week kent and taylor came across as amiable but kind of professorial folks and yovanovitch was just irrelevant to the underlying conduct in question. none of it worked. but you don t have to take my word for it. the television ratings from last week s performances are in and it s not pretty. 13.8 million people across multiple broadcast and cable outlets watched the first day of the hearings. that s a 19% drop from the number who watched jim comey s testimony before the senate intel committee back in june of 2017, and as joe concha notes in the hill it s also 1.5 million fewer than the number who tuned in to the first democratic debates which didn t have the benefit of being on most of the