Today will live forever as a day of infamy in U.S. history for the U.S. Senate and for the Republican party. In rejecting the move to admit further documents and witnesses (favored by 70 percent of the American public), Senate Republicans show that they have the votes to achieve an acquittal of Donald Trump. There was a time when the Republican Party called itself the party of law and order, patriotism, and morality. It can no longer make any such claims.

Instead, the behavior of the Republican party leaders and politicians we have elected to serve us, our democracy and our constitution, have chosen to betray our trust and shirk their duty to us. They make it clear that they have sold their souls to the 3 “P”: the protecting of PRIVELEGE, the pursuit and exercise of personal and partisan POWER, and maximum PROFIT at all costs, with gravy accruing to them. If we are the moral and patriotic people we claim to be, we must rise up in righteous indignation and throw the entire lot of them out of office.

I pledge that as long as Republican politic politicians as such traitors to us, our democracy, and our constitution, I pledge that I will not vote for a single Republican again at any level of government. I urge every loyal American to join me in making such a pledge.