It's not over ... In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of fear

[Mac-7]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

All of them but one.

Thats a lie

the dems failed to make their case for impeachment

You are evidently distressed by the perfidy of the GOP senators and are trying to justify it to yourself.

I am responding to you and the other anti trumpers

 

[Mac-7]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

All of them but one.

Thats a lie

the dems failed to make their case for impeachment

Dems proved the case for impeachment. Repub senators chose acquittal over inquiring the wrath of the Cult of Trumpery.

They only proved it to cast in stone anti trumpsters

The rest of America yawned

 

[Crepitus]

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Not a single relevant quote, not a shred of evidence. Pure slanderous garbage.

Someone should burn down the building.

You know it's true as well as I do.

Every single one of them knows he/she is 280 characters or less from being a RINO.

 

[Crepitus]

I wonder how many but but but but stories we can expect to hear after another Democrat loss? I think it's become their comfort zone, I really do.

I also think (hope) that perhaps this is just "growing pains", as so many women in high positions now. For the most part women operate on emotions instead of reason. True story, but so not PC.

What loss?

Nobody expected the republicans to have enough balls to vote for removal. This was a win. Not only did we get more jnformainfo infrok of the American people, we showed them how serious the crimes were and how worthless the republican senators are.

Remember, the only bipartisan vote in the whole trial was to convict and remove dOnald tRump.

 

[iceberg]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski, and I'm sure more I'm not aware of all stated what el Duce Don did was wrong.

Add Joni Ernst to that list of Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski who all acknowledged what Trump did was despicable.

link to this accusation?

 

[Denizen]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

All of them but one.

Thats a lie

the dems failed to make their case for impeachment

You are evidently distressed by the perfidy of the GOP senators and are trying to justify it to yourself.

I am responding to you and the other anti trumpers

You will get over it after Trump and the Trumplings are expunged in November.

 

[Mac-7]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski, and I'm sure more I'm not aware of all stated what el Duce Don did was wrong.

Add Joni Ernst to that list of Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski who all acknowledged what Trump did was despicable.

link to this accusation?

Their is no link cause libs are just making up stuff as they go along

 

[The Original Tree]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Don't you think you should clean your room in your mom's basement?

 

[Mac-7]

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

All of them but one.

Thats a lie

the dems failed to make their case for impeachment

You are evidently distressed by the perfidy of the GOP senators and are trying to justify it to yourself.

I am responding to you and the other anti trumpers

You will get over it after Trump and the Trumplings are expunged in November.

I'm hopeful that wont happen

the democrats are moving radical left at breakneck speed

eventually they will be in the white house again

but I hope its not soon

 

[theHawk]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

 

[iceberg]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski, and I'm sure more I'm not aware of all stated what el Duce Don did was wrong.

Add Joni Ernst to that list of Rubio, Romney, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski who all acknowledged what Trump did was despicable.

link to this accusation?

Their is no link cause libs are just making up stuff as they go along

well aware.

just want the idiot to know we are well aware and not buying his bullshit.

 

[The Original Tree]

Which republican senators?

its easy for the New York Times to make up rumors and spread them as fact which hooks gullible libs every time

All of them but one.

Thats a lie

the dems failed to make their case for impeachment

You are evidently distressed by the perfidy of the GOP senators and are trying to justify it to yourself.

I am responding to you and the other anti trumpers

You will get over it after Trump and the Trumplings are expunged in November.

Whatever you say "keyboard warrior" Don't you think you should clean up your desk?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

Burisma mitt. He thinks he's getting some love from the libs. Lol.

 

[theHawk]

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

Not a single relevant quote, not a shred of evidence. Pure slanderous garbage.

Someone should burn down the building.

The only Republicans living in “fear” are the neocon globalist ones. And they should fear the people because we will hold them accountable.

 

[Dragonlady]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

 

[theHawk]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

Don’t tell us what Americans want, you dumb Canadian. Go back to worshipping Turdeau and your globalist government that spends your tax money investigating people who write books criticizing your dear leader.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

Romney is a turncoat bastard. He deserves everything he gets.

 

[justoffal]

They fear slander, scorn, and mockery from Donald Trump and fear the Trump howling mob.

It's true. GOP Senators handed their testicles to the cloakroom attendant on the way to the Senate impeachment.

Then they lost their will and their way and have stumbled into the wilderness like sheep led by Judas goat Mitch McConnell.

The question now is whether there will be more revelations that will exemplify the cowardice of the GOP Senators in the face of compelling evidence of impeachable offenses by Donald Trump.

How much evidence and exposure of Trump's dirty deeds is yet to emerge?

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.

Feb. 5, 2020

In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business.

Think back to the fall of 2002, just a few weeks before that year’s crucial midterm elections, when the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq was up for a vote. A year after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of members of the House and the Senate were about to face the voters of a country still traumatized by terrorism.

Senator Patty Murray, a thoughtful Democrat from Washington State, still remembers “the fear that dominated the Senate leading up to the Iraq war.”

“You could feel it then,” she told me, “and you can feel that fear now” — chiefly among Senate Republicans.

For those of us who, from the start, questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war, our sense of isolation surely wasn’t much different from the loneliness felt in the 1950s by Senator Herbert Lehman of New York, who confronted Joe McCarthy’s demagogy only to be abandoned by so many of his colleagues. Nor was it so different from what Senator George McGovern must have felt when he announced his early opposition to the Vietnam War and was then labeled a traitor by many inside and outside of Congress.

... Robert Kennedy spoke of how “moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle.” ...

...Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:

“Will the hosts on Fox attack me?”

“Will the mouthpieces on talk radio go after me?”

“Will the Twitter trolls turn their followers against me?”

My colleagues know they all just might. There’s an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe. In private, many of my colleagues agree that the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. And they acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know this president has done things Richard Nixon never did. And they know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.

So watching the mental contortions they perform to justify their votes is painful to behold: They claim that calling witnesses would have meant a never-ending trial. They tell us they’ve made up their minds, so why would we need new evidence? They say to convict this president now would lead to the impeachment of every future president — as if every president will try to sell our national security to the highest bidder.

I have asked some of them, “If the Senate votes to acquit, what will you do to keep this president from getting worse?” Their responses have been shrugs and sheepish looks.

They stop short of explicitly saying that they are afraid. We all want to think that we always stand up for right and fight against wrong. But history does not look kindly on politicians who cannot fathom a fate worse than losing an upcoming election. They might claim fealty to their cause — those tax cuts — but often it’s a simple attachment to power that keeps them captured.

As Senator Murray said on the Senate floor in 2002, “We can act out of fear” or “we can stick to our principles.” Unfortunately, in this Senate, fear has had its way. In November, the American people will have theirs.

Yawwwwwwwn.....
A quick diaper change will probably improve your mood.

Jo

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Obama did it by using the IRS and NSA

Just more lies.

Yep! Obama was the best liars ever!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I'm sure it wasn't fear of them being treated the way that Romney is now being treated by the howling cultists.

We’ve always hated Romney, just like John Mc-shit-stain. Two “moderates” always bending over backwards to appease the lunatics on the left. Both were utterly worthless when it came to pushing conservative ideas and policies.

The American public is DONE with failed conservative policies. Republicans are still pushing "trickle down" even though it's not working. It didn't work under Reagan, which even Reagan acknowledged. That's why he raised taxes. It didn't work under W, and it sure as hell isn't working under Trump.

When all you have is discredited economic policies, it's hard to win elections, so Trumpists are pushing "fear". Fear of immigrants, fear of socialists, fear of the media, fear of institutions.

Reagan raised income taxes? No. He raise FICA taxes because the programs were going bankrupt. The rich don't pay FICA taxes past a certain limit.