Johnson confronts Romney after vote on witnesses

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



By Scott Wong - 02/13/21 12:06 PM EST



Two Republican senators — Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Mitt Romney of Utah — got into a confrontation on the Senate floor Saturday after Romney voted with Democrats to allow witnesses in the impeachment trial of former President Trump.

Reporters sitting in the Senate gallery said they saw a “visibly upset” Johnson turn to Romney and point at him after the vote.

The two men then got into a back-and-forth, with Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) trying to play referee.

Voices were raised, and at one point Johnson was overheard saying he blamed Romney.

Johnson is a staunch Trump ally who argued the defense “eviscerated” the Democratic prosecutors and “blew their case out of the water.” Romney, a frequent Trump critic, voted to convict Trump on one count during last year’s impeachment trial. In the second trial, Romney voted both that the impeachment trial over whether Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6 was constitutional and for witnesses to be called.

Johnson on Saturday flashed his anger at reporters who later asked him about his exchange with Romney.
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I wish there were lots of banana casings in Johnson's route.

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[Wicked Blue]

1. No need for bananas

The DC area is being coated with freezing rain and is slippery as heck

[riversedge]

3. We might get up to zero here in Mid Wisconsin. balmy

[Wicked Blue]

4. Swimsuit weather?

[riversedge]

5. soon.

[Jimbo S]

16. I have a 5K Sunday morning

May get up to -5 here in the Milwaukee area. Will just have to put on a second layer.

[Marcuse]

19. That's a long swim.

[Jimbo S]

25. Good thing I have a wetsuit

[BlueIdaho]

2. Nothing I like more than seeing republicans fighting with each other

In public. It warms my heart.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Too bad Romney didn't slap the hell out of Johnson.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. and which finger did he use?

If anyone questions whether or not calling witnesses is a good idea, I think this is a pretty obvious clue.

[milestogo]

8. Johnson makes Romney look like a saint.

[paleotn]

9. 8 years ago, that would have been a hell of a feat...

Little did we know how deep the putrid really goes with Repukes.

[dchill]

10. I'm hearing that the price of Chinese tea is up.

[ananda]

11. And yet Romney is still a Reep.

He's such a smarmy ambitious asshole.

He wants to be president but that will
never happen with the party the way it
is.

The party betrayed him bigtime and yet
he's still there.

In a way, Romney is worse than Johnson.

[pnwmom]

14. Romney isn't worse than Johnson. nt

[still_one]

15. Exactly, not even close

[ananda]

17. Not on the surface no. But Dante had a special place...

for the cowards, wafflers, and fence sitters.

It was a marginal place--inside the gate of hell but before the river Acheron--for souls neither
good enough for heaven nor evil enough for hell proper.

That would definitely include Romney and the others who are still Reeps.

Possible theological justification for Dante's invention may be found in Apocalypse (Revelation) 3:16:
"But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth."

Included among these cowardly souls--also known as fence-sitters, wafflers, opportunists,
and neutrals--are the angels who refused to choose between God and Lucifer.

[pnwmom]

20. A man who was one of only 7 to vote for conviction isn't a coward.

Not in this day and age. He and his family have probably been getting death threats, like the other R's who voted that way.

[ananda]

21. So why is he still a Reep, even after his own party tried to kill him?

???

[pnwmom]

22. Because he has traditional Republican beliefs, which are opposed to ours.

But Trump isn't a traditional Republican either.

[Oldem]

12. Johnson: regurgitating some of the Kool-Aid.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. One jab and an uppercut from Romney would have dropped him like a bag of dirt. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. No fan of Romney but Johnson's going unarmed into a battle of wits.

[kairos12]

23. Johnson is a Moscow mouthpiece.

[cp]

24. MoRon trying to be Worst in Wisconsin, post Wanker

Hell, he's one of the worst in the Senate. Ugh. Dolt.
Still want to know: what were you doing in Moscow July 4, 2018, Johnson?