Republicans made the weather. Now they stand in the rain and say “s***, it’s raining!”

There’s a line in the film Cold Mountain, about a western North Carolina village during the Civil War, that has always stood out to me. In it, Ruby (Renee Zellweger) laments the current crisis engulfing their land. “Every piece of this is man’s bullshit,” she sobs. “They call this war a cloud over the land, but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘shit, it’s raining!’”

That line has been on my mind a lot lately as I’ve seen reports — like this from CNN’s Jamie Gangel — that House Republicans want to vote to impeach Donald Trump for his role in last week’s violent insurrection at the Capitol, but that “they legitimately fear for their lives and their families’ lives.” That any member of Congress should live in mortal terror over a House vote is appalling and should be unequivocally condemned. I am outraged that this is where we are as a nation, and my sympathy is with those frightened Representatives.

But every piece of this is the GOP’s bullshit. They made the weather, and now they…