{"id":176963,"date":"2020-02-05T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/05\/thank-you-mitt-romney\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:03:00","slug":"thank-you-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/05\/thank-you-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank-You Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now there is a phrase that I NEVER though I would say, but given that the distinguished gentleman from Utah is the first Senator ever to vote to convict a president of their own party<\/a>, and there will likely be significant negative consequences that will likely arise from this act, I feel compelled to give credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n

Romney has spioled Trump’s “Perfect Acquittal.” and has probably signed execution order for the perfidious Susan Collins’s political career as well:<\/p>\n

After five months of hearings, investigations and revelations about President Trump\u2019s dealings with Ukraine, a divided United States Senate acquitted him on Wednesday of charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress to aid his own re-election, bringing an acrimonious impeachment trial to its expected end.<\/span>

<\/span> In a pair of votes whose outcome was never in doubt, the Senate fell well short of the two-thirds margin that would have been needed to remove the 45th president. The verdicts came down \u2014 after three weeks of debate \u2014 almost entirely along party lines, with every Democrat voting \u201cguilty\u201d on both charges and Republicans uniformly voting \u201cnot guilty\u201d on the obstruction of Congress charge.<\/span>

<\/span> Only one Republican, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, broke with his party to judge Mr. Trump guilty of abuse of power.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

But in a stinging rebuke of the country\u2019s leader aimed at history, Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said that Mr. Trump\u2019s pressure campaign on Ukraine was \u201cthe most abusive and destructive violation of one\u2019s oath of office that I can imagine.\u201d Though he voted against the second article, Mr. Romney became emotional on the Senate floor in the hours before the verdict on Wednesday as he described why he deemed Mr. Trump guilty of abuse of power, calling it a matter of conscience. He was the first senator ever to vote to remove a president of his own party<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure to hear abuse from the president and his supporters,\u201d Mr. Romney said. \u201cDoes anyone seriously believe I would consent to these consequences other than from an inescapable conviction that my oath before God demanded it of me?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

It’s one more vote for conviction I had expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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