Honestly shocked at people shocked at whatever the GOP Senate does—feckless, cowardly and tone deaf is sort of their motto https://t.co/D1skUUEqe8
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) December 29, 2020
By Julie Kelly on Nov 6, 2020
In February 2020, Mitt Romney became the first U.S. senator in history to vote to convict the president of his own party. Despite a laughable impeachment case concocted by House Democrats and clear evidence of corruption tied to the Democratic presidential candidate whom the impeachment effort was designed to protect, Romney nonetheless supported the removal of Donald Trump from the White House.
“My faith is at the heart of who I am,” Utah’s junior senator claimed while working up tears from the Senate floor on February 5. “The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did.”
But Romney didn’t just pontificate about the president’s behavior. In that very same soliloquy, Romney defended the actions of both Joe and Hunter Biden.
“Taking excessive advantage of his father’s name is unsavory, it is not a crime.” Romney concluded, therefore, that since no crime had been committed by the Bidens, in his opinion, the president’s request that Ukrainian officials look into their shady business dealings was “political.”
With that, Mitt Romney secured his place in political history for something other than losing two campaigns for president.
In many respects, Romney is the poster child for the present-day Republican U.S. Senate: pandering, feckless, disloyal, and weak.
Squandered Opportunities
Yes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s record on confirming federal judges, including three Supreme Court nominees, is laudable. But the four-year reign of the Republican Senate under a Republican president is a shameful account of missed opportunities, broken promises, and straight-up subversion of Donald Trump. During one of the most fraught, destructive periods in American history, Senate Republicans squandered rather than wielded their immense political power.
Longtime pledges to reform immigration laws and repeal the Affordable Care Act were cast aside. When the president used his legal authority to attempt to secure the southern border in the spring of 2019, a dozen Senate Republicans vetoed his emergency order.
Rather than stand up to the Democratic Party’s race hustlers, Senate Republicans—including McConnell—condemned the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor as racially motivated even when evidence contradicted those claims. A few Republican senators sponsored legislation to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a sop to the Left.
As lawless thugs tore down statues of America’s Founders and Antifa mobs occupied swaths of major U.S. cities, some Republican senators didn’t even bother to attend a public hearing about Antifa’s ongoing threat to the country. President Trump often was the lone voice defending America’s history and ideals; following his riveting July 4 address at Mount Rushmore, where he unapologetically confronted America’s domestic enemies, Republican Senators were silent.
Bungling Obamagate and Russian Collusion
Of course, there’s no greater example of the Senate Republicans’ abdication of power than its complete and total failure to hold accountable any of the perpetrators of so-called Obamagate for orchestrating the biggest American political scandal of all time.
Republicans knew early on that the Steele dossier was garbage; Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) were fully aware that the dossier was political propaganda sourced from a foreign operative paid by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee but legitimized its use as the pretext for the collusion scam.
Rather than put a stop to the phony Trump-Russia collusion plotline, Senate Republicans played along with their Democratic counterparts. Every single Republican senator supported the appointment of Robert Mueller, a Beltway crony and BFF of James Comey. The Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) then by Graham, performed no oversight of Mueller’s destructive probe despite holding the purse strings. When the president justifiably expressed his frustration at Mueller’s “witch hunt,” instead of defending the president, Senate Republicans vowed to “protect the Special Counsel.”
Only when Trump, who actually has balls, is around does the Republicans in Congress have balls. It seems they have to be inspired by someone with balls to act like they have a pair. Even the women.
The Mueller “investigation” was essential. Once the accusations were made, it was necessary to complete the investigation. There was no excuse for it lasting 2 years, with the absolute total absence of any evidence, but conducting the investigation and then proving no crimes were committed SHOULD have ended it. Of course, that wasn’t the point; it was intended to stain Trump with the implied guilt. Consequently, not getting the outcome they wanted, Democrats simply refused to accept the outcome and STILL claim guilt was found, just not revealed out of that famous Democrat courtesy.
If they have the numbers, Republicans will take care of the existential issues: preventing the bloating of the Supreme Court and ending the filibuster. I guess it remains to be seen if the theft of the election pisses them off to the point to truly fight for the rights of the American people.
Have Mitt and Marco retired?
For the young It was 7 liberlal. GOPe Sen. that enabled Biden to “Bork” Bork 33 years ago. Most GOPe are far left liberal liars. They show heir true “colors” when they vote LIBERAL most of the time!
33 years ago The Press (now LSM) said “Borking” was BIPARTISAN; and for once they were right.
Remember that impeachment thingee back in January, ya when they finally realized they were not going to remove Trump so released the Kung Flu.
@kitt: I guess it’s too late to impeach Trump for this, too, isn’t it? It would be worthy of study to find out if Democrats are born stupid, seek stupidity or are faking their stupidity.
A Republican Senate will keep Biden in ‘checks’.
Big fat checks, from China and elsewhere in the world. 10% to the big guy, and more drugs for Hunter.