Romney blocking Ron Johnson’s clown show

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1293706089620545538

[Sir Mohamed]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

[Person Man]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

He was like Louis XVI back then and now he is like this figure who still believes in America.

[Inmate Trump]

I love Mitt Romney.  He's the last hope for the Republican Party, my former party.  It's dying, thanks to Trump and imbecilic QAnon conspiracy theorists.

[MasterJedi]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

I mean, you can still strongly dislike him for his actual policy stances but for the most part it's policy you're going to disagree with him on, he's not the type of person to actually hate people who aren't the same skin color as him or try to do the things that the Trumpers believe.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Probably a combination of knowing Johnson is doing it for political purposes, and of wanting the Republican Party to move on from this Trump conspiracy schitt. Either way, good move.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Senator Romeny: forcing the GOP to cling to sanity by its fingernails, whether it wants to or not.

[ProudModerate2]

[Badger]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

He was like Louis XVI back then and now he is like this figure who still believes in America.

He's always been both.

[Alcibiades]

It is quite funny. 8 years ago it would have seemed that Romney would go down as another obscure failed presidential candidate.

But now the history will rightly heap praise on him for being literally the only GOP senator to oppose Trump in any meaningful way.

It is a sad reflection on the party that to be considered a “moderate” or “maverick” Republican one only has to stand for democratic norms.

[Santander]

Thank you Mitt!

[Suburbia]

Romney is better than a lot of GOPers, he is seen as the anti-Trump right.

Johnson is angling for WI GOV 2022

[woodley park]

It was easy for Democrats to dislike Romney a decade ago. As the presumptive and then eventual 2012 GOP nominee, he understandably spent much of his time disparaging Obama. But even amidst that, it never crossed my mind that, given power, he'd become a stooge and a sellout the way Ron Johnson and some of these other jokers in the Senate have become. I suppose we should have taken note that even back then, he never got aboard Trump's birtherism train. Good for Romney. Hopefully this is Johnson's last term.

[GP270watch]

 Romney should give up his presidential ambitions forever and be a Senator from Utah for as long as the voters will have him.

[Inmate Trump]

Romney should give up his presidential ambitions forever and be a Senator from Utah for as long as the voters will have him.

I think that's his goal now.  His vote to remove Trump sealed his fate with the Republican electorate.  Utah is probably the only state that will have him now.  I'm fine with that.  We need voices like his in the Senate.  I'm now a Democrat, but it wouldn't be good to have just Democratic senators; nor is it good for the country to allow the idiots a voice either--and the idiots/authoritarians have taken over the GOP.  So to have Romney as a voice of reason from the other side is a good thing.

[GP270watch]

 The thing with Romney is he's pretty bad, his Obamacare demonization and hard-right pivot on immigration is unforgivable. But Republicans have candidates much worse than him on both matters and who also believe in crazy conspiracy theories, want to cripple even basic government functions, and have no appeal to common sense and would have us living under Christian fundamentalism and corporate tyranny.

[7,052,770]

Not that I'm complaining, but how does one senator "block" another from doing an investigation?

[GP270watch]

Not that I'm complaining, but how does one senator "block" another from doing an investigation?

It's right in the headline.

Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas.

[President Johnson]

Freedom fighter! I wish he was the Republican leader in the senate, presiding over a mainstream conservative caucus instead of a Trump parlamentary arm.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Not that I'm complaining, but how does one senator "block" another from doing an investigation?

It's right in the headline.

Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas.

But how? Did they have a secret meeting or something? I’d like to know myself.

[gerritcole]

Not that I'm complaining, but how does one senator "block" another from doing an investigation?

It's right in the headline.

Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas.

But how? Did they have a secret meeting or something? I’d like to know myself.

Johnson needs a majority of his committee to approve the subpoena to go ahead. 14 members 8 gop 6 dem, every dem is a no, so if romney votes no then the motion fails

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Not that I'm complaining, but how does one senator "block" another from doing an investigation?

It's right in the headline.

Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas.

But how? Did they have a secret meeting or something? I’d like to know myself.

Johnson needs a majority of his committee to approve the subpoena to go ahead. 14 members 8 gop 6 dem, every dem is a no, so if romney votes no then the motion fails

Gotcha, thanks!

[ProudModerate2]

Here is the story in Politico (released yesterday), if anyone is interested ...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/ron-johnson-gop-blocking-comey-subpoena-394256

[RINO Tom]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

Maybe your dislike for him in 2012 was ridiculous.

[R.P. McM]

I'm still not a major fan of Mitt Romney, but it's really strange how times have changed. I disliked him very much in 2012.

Maybe your dislike for him in 2012 was ridiculous.

Nah, our standards were just a lot higher. Remember when he sought and received the endorsement of the Birther 'N Chief? Real subtle message there, Mitt. And look where playing footsie with racists led the establishment wing of the GOP. The best you can say about Mitt Romney is that unlike virtually all of his colleagues, he draws the line at authoritarianism and treason.