NC GOP Moves To Censure Burr Over Surprise Vote To Convict Trump

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) finds himself in the firing line back in his home state after he voted to convict ex-President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial on Saturday, with the North Carolina Republican Party now making plans to censure the senator on Monday night.


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Keep reaching for the bottom, GQP.

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Is it time? Well then: REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY!!

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Eventually they’ll all vote each other off the island.

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What does that even mean, to vote to censure him?

It would seem to say more about the clowns who are putting forward this idea, than about Burr. Even if he were not almost done as a Senator, does this mean they will somehow put a muzzle on him? What about free speech?? What a bunch of clowns.

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In the 1960s it was “reach for the moon”
In the 2020s it is “reach to support the goon”

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Meaningless empty gesture that has no penalty, just a signed piece of paper that they’re highly offended.

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“Reaching.” These folks have pulled out the jack hammers and they are trying to get through the mantle to the Earth’s the core. It’s almost as if they had no understanding of politics, at all. Because a few weeks from now, Burr’s vote is going to look like sanity.

Cassidy and Burr are both privy to Security briefings, by-the-way, which is the common thread in their votes to convict. (I think that’s the case, still. I could be wrong.)

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How dare someone follow the oath they took, they have no place in today’s republican party!

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Shorter NC morons: You’re not dumb enough to be one of us.

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Censure is the political equivalent of mooning.

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I believe it was Joyce who said of Ireland, that she’s the old sow who eats her farrow. This is how it’s done in that great hog producing region of the USA.

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What hath Trump wrought?

Censure for Adulthood

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MoscowMitch knows. That’s why his first words after the vote were to totally disavow his vote and make fake “constitutional” claims as having tied his hands.

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These attempts to exact revenge when a Republican veers from party should forever convince everyone there is no such thing as bipartisanship in the Republican party.

Let’s just move on and let them destroy each other.

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Will this vote come before or after they make a statement about how liberals are using cancel culture to abuse conservatives?

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Why I see you have a new funny avatar! :grinning:

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Need at least three censures to cover T****'s fat ass.

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I think it means, “Oh Great Moron, let the record show that we kissed your ring. Have mercy upon us and shower us with your ruddy-hued favor.”

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I admire him for his vote. I deeply dislike the vote of Tillich who traded his allegiance to the constitution for his love and far of Trump. Of course it matters that Burr isn’t running again.

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