THE FINAL WORD
ROMNEY'S RIGHTEOUS TURNCOAT VOTE
fter the most absurd presidential impeachment in the history of the U.S. Congress, last week was finally an opportunity for the Republican Senate majority to restore sanity to its institution... On a purely party line vote, Democrats in the House had cast votes to oust President Trump from office. Every choice the Democrats made in the conduct of the impeachment process – the ultimate sanction against the highest official in our government – was abusive, distorted, and dishonest.
The charges – “Abuse of Power” and “Obstruction of Congress” – were vague and absurd. They were also unproven, as evidenced by the Democrats’ claim that – in the absence of witnesses the Senate never called – the trial would be nothing more than a “cover-up.” But finally the Senate, with its intentionally high threshold of a two-thirds majority vote for removing a president from office, could set things right. Democrats were about to receive a rebuke in
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