{"id":38900,"date":"2020-02-06T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38900"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:59:16","slug":"kudos-to-one-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/kudos-to-one-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to One Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is a rare opportunity for me.&nbsp; Republicans and kudos are normally akin to Republicans on oxygen\u2026 oxymoronic.&nbsp; However, on those so rare occasions that Republicans do what is right for the American people, instead of goose-stepping in blind lock-step behind some billionaire or their criminal Fuhrer, Trump*, fairness demands that I give them credit for it.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" title=\"0206Romney\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0206Romney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/0206Romney.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Showing clear emotion in his voice, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah revealed on the Senate floor Wednesday that he will vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>With the announcement, Romney became the only member of the president\u2019s party expected to vote against Trump. He will approve the article of impeachment charging Trump with \u201cabuse of power\u201d in his effort to induce Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a political opponent while voting against the \u201cobstruction of Congress\u201d charge.<\/p>\n<p>He said the president is \u201cguilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early in the speech, he became choked up when talking about his personal faith and paused to gather himself. He called the choice \u201cthe most difficult decision I have ever faced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a \u2018high crime and misdemeanor,&#8217;\u201d Romney said. \u201cYes, he did.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/02\/mitt-romney-reveals-hes-voting-to-convict-trump-guilty-of-an-appalling-abuse-of-public-trust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is his complete speech announcing his intent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Wf9ilAfJ-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senator Mitt Romney to vote to convict President Trump on Abuse of Power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4Wf9ilAfJ-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you, Senator Romney.&nbsp; Kudos!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rare opportunity for me.&nbsp; Republicans and kudos are normally akin to Republicans on oxygen\u2026 oxymoronic.&nbsp; However, on those so rare occasions that Republicans do what is right for the American people, instead of goose-stepping in blind lock-step behind some billionaire or their criminal Fuhrer, Trump*, fairness demands that I give them credit <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/06\/kudos-to-one-republican\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3722,3881,3714],"class_list":["post-38900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-impeachment","tag-mitt-romney","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}