About Trump's Impeachment and Senate Trial

I don't mean to offend any Trump haters out there by reiterating my earlier claim that this ongoing impeachment and Senate trial is a dead-end adventure by the opposition party...but here I go saying it again.  The Senate trial is now in its third day and I'm sure Americans everywhere on each "side" of the proceedings are freaking out about it all: Trumpy-Bear-huggers are in a rage because the President was impeached in the first place and his despisers are beside themselves because Republican Senate Majority Leader is organizing the trial in a partisan manner.  The main issue behind it all is the question of whether Trump deliberately withheld Congressionally-authorized military aid to Ukraine for their defensive war against Russian encroachment on their territory in order to exact from them an investigation against Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who had been on an international board overseeing a Ukrainian natural gas company, with the intention of damaging the presidential campaign of his chief Democratic rival.  Personally I think Trump did exactly what the Democrats are alleging, but if what he did was wrong then I have to ask when is it ever going to happen that alleged corruption will be investigated...it won't happen while the party in question is in power, and apparently now to investigate what somebody in the other party may have been up to is now deemed to be an abuse of power...if you're the President pushing for an investigation, that is.  Also, the President is being charged with obstruction when he has simply used the totally legal system of appealing to the courts, i.e. the Judicial Branch, in a legitimate way to defend himself and the Executive Branch as a check of powers against the Legislative Branch. And as with other issues, Trump here has shown himself to be impulsive, self-absorbed, manipulative, and sloppy and careless with his speech, and it's easy to take his words and make him look bad...don't look at me: I didn't vote for the dude. But whether you agree with me or not, it's still clear that there is no way that the Senate will vote to convict and remove Trump from office...that requires 67 votes and the Dems have only 47: if anything it looks as if in the end it will be some Democratic senators crossing over to Trump's side, not the reverse...

I am sick and tired of our elected representatives and senators wasting their time and our taxes on measures that they know in advance stand no chance of being passed or signed by the President.  When Obama was in office and the Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, they passed bill after bill knowing that they would never become law, and at last count the current Democratic House under Nancy Pelosi has sent some 400 partisan-approved bills over to the Senate with the same "zilch" hope of advancing when they could have instead worked with the Republicans to come up with actually passable legislation.  Similarly, although the prosecuting side for the impeachment of Bill Clinton 21 years ago may have believed there was a strong case against the President, it knew in advance it didn't have a prayer that the Senate would ever convict him.  Instead, they...like today's House of Representatives...should have voted to censure the President.  Nancy Pelosi bragged recently that regardless what happens in the Senate, Donald Trump is now impeached "forever".  She could instead have gone down a different path and claimed he is censured "forever", thereby sparing the country from this dead-end, melodramatic spectacle it is currently undergoing.  And by the way, regardless which party you belong to and how you currently feel about Trump's impeachment, because the two parties play childish tit-for-tat revenge games whenever one feels an offense has been committed them by the other, expect impeachment to become a common part of our political landscape now whenever a president finds the opposition party in control of the House of Representatives...