Via the [Ace of Spades Morning Report](http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385601.php) comes the following comment: > There really was no good reason why they should not have held that vote immediately, except for the fact that the Dems wanted to sabotage Bernie Sanders ability to fly off to Iowa and campaign for today's caucuses, as well as prevent Trump from crowing about the acquittal at tomorrow's State of the Union speech. That was Mitch McConnell's doing, for better or worse, not that it really makes much of a difference. There are a couple of schools of thought vis a vis allowing more witnesses. First, in theory, the GOP could have called the Bidens, Schiff-for-Brains and even Eric "whistleblower" Ciaramaella, which would have revealed even more raw corruption and criminality of the former as well as the truly explosive facts of the latter two essentially cooking up the entire raison d'etre for the impeachment in the first place. That is, assuming that John Roberts would not have run interference for the Dems as he did in muzzling Rand Paul's questions that essentially would have revealed those facts or that McConnell and company would have allowed the Dems to only hear from more lies cooked up by anti-Trump witnesses. More than a bit ironic that Elizabeth Wan was correct in her assessment of the Chief Justice, albeit for the wrong reason. > **The other side of the coin, which I happen to agree with, is that as desirable as it is to have the aforementioned criminals grilled under oath, the impeachment trial of the President was the absolute wrong venue in which to do it. It is better suited for a time when the Bidens', Schiff's and Ciaramella's and others' criminality will be the exclusive focus, as well as when the public is actually watching,** which fewer and fewer were as the sham-peachment dragged on, the media's censorship, spinning and outright embargoing of that eventuality notwithstanding. That said, Lindsey Graham was on the Sunday shows and is promising to hold independent Senate hearings and call Ciaramella to testify. Meh, Lindsey always talks a big game with this kind of red meat but rarely if ever delivers. We shall see. (Emphasis mine.) I've been advocating for that approach for a while now. The Bidens, Schiff, et. al. deserve their own moments under the bare bulb. They could put that on Pay Per View and clear the national debt.