Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel criticized Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), her uncle, saying that he came into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with a bias.
McDaniel said, “I disagree with his vote, as did every other Republican senator, as did every other Republican House member including some Democrats, as did the American people.”
he added, “You know one of the things that’s not talked about with this trial, when you are a defendant, the jury pool can come as a bias against you and these overwhelming feelings. That’s not what happens in the Senate. Obviously, they came in with feelings. Mitt Romney has been very clear with his criticisms of this president when he was a candidate. I think some of that carried through into this vote. I think it’s disappointing. I think it’s disappointing to a lot of Republicans who view this president as someone who has been a champion for religious liberty, for good judges.”
February 07, 2020, 07:22 PM
DennisM
Colonel Vindman isn't being dismissed from the service, he's just being removed from his current billet.
It can happen for the needs of the service, because of performance, for career development, or simply because the principal has "lost confidence" in him, any or all of which are perfectly valid reasons. But because he's up for the Democratic equivalent of a Hero of the Soviet Union Medal, the media is OUTRAGED.
Yawn.
February 07, 2020, 07:53 PM
feersum dreadnaught
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Originally posted by wcb6092:
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Originally posted by chellim1: Ambassador Sondland Gets The Axe Hours After Vindman Twins Escorted Out Of White House
What a day!
Anyone else hearing the organ music from the baptism scene in Godfather 1?
Today, we settle all family business...
It will take longer than a day, but these three are no brainers to get started with. Here’s hoping they are the first of many swept away in a major house cleaning of WH / NSC / State Dept staff.
Then Durham can start the perp walks. Hey, a guy can dream, right?
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
February 07, 2020, 07:55 PM
oddball
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Originally posted by sdy: Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel criticized Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), her uncle, saying that he came into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with a bias.
I heard on the radio the other day that Mittens went back to Utah to meet with the state Republicans there and it seems they were not too happy with him. Mike Lee seems to have distanced himself away from Willard as well.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 07, 2020, 08:00 PM
P220 Smudge
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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught: Anyone else hearing the organ music from the baptism scene in Godfather 1?
Today, we settle all family business...
You beat me to it. Absolutely.
“If you’re gonna come at the King, you better not miss.”
______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est
February 07, 2020, 08:01 PM
Doc H.
quote:
Originally posted by DennisM: Colonel Vindman isn't being dismissed from the service, he's just being removed from his current billet.
It can happen for the needs of the service, because of performance, for career development, or simply because the principal has "lost confidence" in him, any or all of which are perfectly valid reasons. But because he's up for the Democratic equivalent of a Hero of the Soviet Union Medal, the media is OUTRAGED.
Yawn.
^^^^^^^This absolutely. And any decent officer would salute smartly and step out, without comment. I imagine there was a reason security escorted him. If your boss doesn't get along with you, too bad. If you don't get along with your boss, you're the problem.
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
February 07, 2020, 08:20 PM
mikeyspizza
Vindman should be court martialled, and more importantly, loss of pension and benefits, for discussing classified info with someone who did not have a need to know.
You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.
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February 07, 2020, 09:20 PM
braillediver
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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
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Originally posted by wcb6092: What a day!
What a week! Every day since Monday, the hits just keep on coming!
Is President Trump taking the gloves off and fighting back? It was a hell of a good week for Trump and a really bad one for the dems.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
February 07, 2020, 11:08 PM
Fenris
The Vindmans should be assigned to guard the inside of a cell at Gitmo.
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC
The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound.
February 07, 2020, 11:40 PM
wcb6092
_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
February 07, 2020, 11:44 PM
wcb6092
_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
February 08, 2020, 06:15 AM
pbslinger
The dims reaction to backstabbing turncoat Romney voting guilty on one article shows how much they continue to get everything wrong about DT. They act like anybody that matters changed their minds about DTs guilt or innocence based on mittens vote. Anybody who believes mittens vote means anything already has TDS and already thought DT guilty of everything.
To me this just proves mittens is an establishment swamp dweller puppet, and whoever he's beholden to made him do it. He didn't do it because he wanted to, he did it because he had to. Whoever is pulling his puppet strings called in a favor owed. He had to go with the entity that he thinks more likely to protect him from his Ukraine corruption.
The interesting part is what does mittens do next. Switch parties? Run as a democrat? Run 3rd party? (maybe too late for that) Maybe VP pick for eventual dem nominee?
