Posted on 12/21/2019 2:32:09 PM PST by powermill
Who might deliver us from this national train wreck? Who could restore a sense of balance to the Senate trial so that, whatever its outcome, it doesn’t feed Trump’s false narrative of victimization and populist rage? There’s one obvious answer: Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and custodian of what remains of his party’s moral and political balance.
History is knocking on Romney’s door. This is his moment to step away from a president who holds him in contempt and to speak for principle — by insisting that the Senate conduct an actual trial and weigh the House’s allegations that Trump abused power and obstructed Congress. This simple stand for an impartial trial (if backed by several more brave Republicans) would restore sanity to this process. Trump would probably still be acquitted, but it wouldn’t be in a firestorm of partisan rage…
You’re probably sick of quotes from the Federalist Papers, but try just one more, from Alexander Hamilton about the Senate’s role in impeachment: “Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?”
Read that passage carefully, Sen. Romney. Hamilton is talking across the centuries to you.
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Author’s name not mentioned ... must be that Delecto guy.
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Well. I was having a good night until I saw this article.
This is a deceptive headline from HotAir linking to the compost. I won’t click on HA anymore until they fire analpundit, but this is too out there even for him.
I saw that too, if Mike Lee thinks it’s going to unanimous by the GOP, he probably knows what he’s talking about.
Pssst, hey author. Let me let you in on a secret: Mitt Romney is all about Mitt Romney. That’s it, that’s the whole secret to understanding him. If he thought he could benefit from going against not only 90% of republicans who support Trump but the majority in the country who now oppose impeachment then sure, he’d try his best to make it happen. But he’ll do the math, look at his own prospects and say “uh uh, no way”. The good of the country’s got nuthin’ to do with Mitt’s thinking. In this case, he’ll accidentally do the right thing and not vote to remove.
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