Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Monday expressed support for the House bill on creating a bipartisan commission to study the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Hopefully this will help Sen. Manchin understand that even a thoroughly bipartisan proposal to address an ostensibly non-partisan issue canāt get sixty votes in the Senate.
One.
Maybe because he almost walked into a lynching.
Bleeping rioting tourists!
bitch ass billi poseR posey R fl also voted against too.
Iāve got $50 that says RepubliQans in the Senate have already decided who will be allowed to say āyesā to the Jan. 6 Commission.
Romney was given permission to do this and Iāll bet there will be 4-5 others who will play the āIām a moderateā card - KNOWING that it wonāt make any real difference since the filibuster will hold up.
Mittās still old school.
I donāt think that he fully understands that control of his party has passed from people like him to all those voters and politicians Nixon brought in to widen his support.
EXACTLY.
RomNot maybe looking to retire. Going rogue lately.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-CO) argued on Sunday that it was ātoo earlyā to create a commission.
Just like gun reform after another school shooting.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who, like Romney, voted to convict ex-President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial for inciting the insurrection, said on Sunday that she āstronglyā supports having a commission to study the Capitol siege, but only under certain conditions.
Condition #1 - Republicans call all the shots on the Commission.
Condition #2 - The Commission focuses on HRC, and Barackās birth certificate, and Hunter Bidenās role in the presence of pornography found on Rudy Gulianiās digital devices.
Condition #3 - The Commission will be forbidden to call any Republican member of Congress, or their staffs, as witnesses of Republican misbehavior.
Tucker is reduced to railing about kissing chickens
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Pretty sad
I donāt know what else you can say
I wouldnāt say old school - he is an opportunistic windsock (in 1994 he vowed to be more prochoice than Ted Kennedy). Trump is less popular in Utah than in other deep red states, so his Senate seat is safe. Some degree of anti-Trump activity now gives him an opening as the least-Trumpy national Republican if there ever is a full reckoning of Trump/Trump enabler crimes AND those crimes are enough to turn a good chunk of the population away from Trump and Trumpism. Iām not overly optimistic about either happening, but I think Mitt understands that he has no chance for the Trumpy mantle against Cruz/DeSantis/Hawley/Junior so this is his best bet.
Romneyās a very wealthy man from a family where itās a tradition to run corporations and states and other big stuff. I doubt he asks permission too often when he wants to go his own way. He doesnāt need the job or much of anything else, and heās pretty clearly seen that he wonāt be running for president in the current edition of the GOP.
Yeah, Suzie Collins will be for it until sheās against it.
A change that will, purely coincidentally, ya know, block cloture.
I guess this confirms Romney is an Antifa Communist. Heāll never be Speaker of the House now.
Manchin is impervious to reason.
Because West Virginia.
The sooner this farce ends, the better. Itās a stupid bill that empowers the GOP to investigate its own insurrection. The fact that Dems agreed to wrap up the investigation by the end of this year so as not to influence the 2022 midterms doesnāt bear thinking about.
If thatās not conscious self-parody then he should see a neurologist because heās got an undiagnosed brain tumor. JFC
Thatās a pretty lame way to own libs.
True, but itās a futile gesture, like the last twitch of a rattlesnake after itās head has been cut off. The Republican Party is a cult. Thereās no going back.