Posted on 10/23/2019 2:18:38 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Jeff Flake has speculated that 35 or more Republican senators might vote in an impeachment trial to remove Trump from office, but only if the vote were held in secret. Whatever the real number is, the senators face a collective-action problem. Politically, their safest bet is to move as one, announcing their openness to removal as a bloc. The president can say what he wants about this or that senator. But he wouldn’t be able to claim—with any credibility beyond his most cultlike followers—that a group composed of 10 or more Republican senators is just a cabal of dishonest, no-good losers secretly working for the Democrats.
Part of any collective-action problem is the disincentive to go first. Senators who want to vote against Trump will want to wait until the last minute, letting their more courageous colleagues take the political hit by going first. The senator going first might get hailed as a hero when the history books are written. But in the moment, he or she will be used as a human shield. It won’t be fun, and it’s a big ask for any sitting Republican.
Romney is best suited for the job. He’s not up for reelection until 2024, which gives him the maximum amount of leeway to make difficult votes. Even then, he represents Utah, a deep-red state where Trump’s approval rating has been underwater for much of his presidency. And that’s all assuming that Romney would even want to run for another six-year term at age 77. This all points to Romney as the perfect person to overcome the collective-action problem—he has more stature and political capital than anyone else in the Senate, but he also has the least to lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Voters in Utah....Recall Senator, Mitt Romney...period!!! He is worthless, useless and is insane!!!
The Atlantic eh. Scoff, scoff.
Mass hangings, on the Mall, televised, will be the only thing that could reach these people.
A secret vote to remove the President of the United States?
Do you REALLY want a damned Civil War?
What a bunch of freaking morons!
Mitt Romney is a Bush League Republican hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
He is not alone.
There are lots of GOP Senators that don’t want us to stop the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
It’s been their life’s work to fundamentally transform the USA into North Mexico against the will of the citizens.
Getting rid of Trump is essential.
Alexander, Graham, McSally, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Hyde-Smith, Collins, Sasse, Shelby, Ernst, Blunt, McConnell, Wicker, Portman, Isakson, Johnson, Toomey, Rounds, Thune, Gaines, Lee, Romney, Capito, Barasso and Enzi are all Bush League Republicans.
Democrats/statists only believe in democracy when they win elections, meaning they don’t believe in democracy at all.
There are no recalls possible for federal offices, period.
The author should stop worshiping that carpetbagging POS and step out of the liberal echo chamber.
Romney is deeply unpopular, and the president is gaining even Democrat voter support against at this kangaroo court impeachment.
Federal officeholders can only be removed by defeat in an election, death, resignation, or expulsion by a two thirds vote of the House in which the officeholder was a member.
If the Republican Party allows the rogue scumbags in their ranks to ever impeach Trump then the Republican Party would cease to exist at the national level.
Which, is exactly the strategy being suggested and urged here.
I couldn’t have said it better. Only Morons would want to move this country closer to civil war. China and the rest of the world must really love these people whom hope for these outcomes.
Romney & Lee are dropping in Utah polls.
Romney is that last person..that needs to be POTUS.
... he or she will be used as a human shield ... Romney is best suited for the job.
He's already signed up!
Pierre will be holding his convention in the Marshall Islands.
I live in UT. Many of us here agree; however, the Mormons vote for Mormons. Mormons can do no wrong in their distorted eyes. Pathetic.
HMMM...sounds like a ‘Trump’ deal.
What better way for Flake to enhance his chances for challenging the sitting President than convince ALL that his OWN PARTY is ready and willing to throw the sitting President under the bus.
There has to be some way to get this ship turned around. This BS taking place in the House is garbage.
At least PDJT should be telling the Rs that they are in HIS sites.
Then the RINOs can step forward and ID themselves by claiming that PDJT is being ‘nasty’ towards them.
Right, Sarah! We should hold a secret vote to convict, after we vote to impeach by secret testimony in closed meetings, where secret whistleblowers testify anonymously about secret evidence.
I can’t see ANY problem with THAT.
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