can i provide a definition for uh-huh. yeah. i can t. you can t? not in this context. i m not a biologist not exactly a shining moment for american democracy. the last senator in that super cut tennessee republican marsha blackburn attempted to extol virtues of american democracy last week tweeting the constitution grants us rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness not abortions. problem is that phrase life liberty and pursuit of happiness appears in the declaration of independence. not the constitution. blackburn should know that and should have deleted that three scores and seven years ago. last time we checked still up on her twitter account. senate sasse may be voting against, but offered up candor suggested some in his own party are concernsing a scoring points and lining up their next tv
the white house. that doesn t make it better. it just makes it even more problematic for him. i remember when the watergate stuff was going on, and we were focused on that. that was a very dark time in american history, john, as you ll remember. we had the vietnam war going on. nixon was doing what nixon was doing. and yet, through it all, the united states congress, however improbably it was, rose above partisan politics, stood up for the rule of law and restored the american people s faith in our democracy and the separation of powers in the constitution that the framers wrote for us and is being so irresponsibly disregarded by this president. and it was a shining moment for american democracy. and i hope this will turn into that. i really do. it s long overdue. this trump era has done such strols our constitution and to our democracy.