Romney won’t do anything. He won’t get in the game. And even if he did, do you think Mitch McConnell or Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley et al won’t blast forth to castigate and pillory Mitt? And so will MIKE LEE. Also from Utah. Whose lips are permanently misshapen from being so firmly affixed to the bottom of Trump’s shoes. Their time to speak up was when this miscreant was RISING and gaining strength, after he attempted to overthrow the government the FIRST TIME. After he became an adjudicated rapist. After he was shown to have absconded with boxes and boxes of classified documents and flushed some down the toilet. After he defrauded the state of New York. After he became a convicted felon.
But they didn’t. They just stood by silently. Silence is assent. It’s complicity. It’s lining up behind what you claim to revile.
Look again at who stood up early on in the Jan. 6 investigations and it was young GOP women with so much to loose, but they told the truth. In this mess, it has been the women who are the Truth Tellers.
I know Romney is a committed LDS member If only he would live out the nature of that commitment and tell his fellow LDS members why they should vote against DJT.
With Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, it is more important than ever that non-Maga Republicans openly endorse Harris and acknowledge Trump is tempermentally and morally unfit and unqualified to be President, and that his VP choice is proof, since Vance is no better a candidate than Trump himself.
Mike Johnson, who as a member of Congress voted against certifying Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electors in 2020 and accused some states of unconstitutionally altering their voting rules during the pandemic, also backed Trump's claims the election was rigged because Dominion cheated in Biden's favor. When asked if he would certify this year's election he said he would if it was fair.
Obviously, people like Johnson, who support Project 2025 and are extreme members of Maga, stand ready to claim the election was rigged again, should their orange Messiah lose. We need Romney to stop wallowing in self-pity and speak out against Trump and for Harris.
Would you prefer Jim Jordan who apparently is setting himself up to become Speaker should the GOP win the House? If we think that Mike Johnson hadn’t done much, Jordan has done even less.
Steve, or anyone, please send this column of The Warning to Mitt Romney. He needs to do this one last act of true patriotism in helping us get rid of the orange fascist.
“Personally, every time I read about the student loan forgiveness issue it brings me to the edge of an aneurysm, but even on the things that make us craziest, the hour has come to yield and defer the fight over small things to a different time because what we share in common far outweighs what we differ about.”
Seriously Steve, student loan debt is the issue that keeps you up at night? Only kidding…:)
What makes me crazy and brings me to the edge of an aneurysm is this nonsense about policy.
On Immigration, Harris said she will revive and sign the Langford/Sinema Bill into law: the most comprehensive immigration bill ever. On the economy: Goldman Sachs says her plan will spur growth and add jobs, while Trump’s nonsensical TARIFF plan will cost $6 trillion, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, leave this country in a recession and guess what, China will not pay for it, and it won’t reduce inflation, it will increase inflation.
Now this is why Romney and guys like Brett Stephen’s are intellectually dishonest and complete cowards. They both know policy is BULL SHIT! Regardless of Harris’s stated economic goals, she has little to no chance of getting it passed in a divided Congress. In the senate, she needs 60 votes, regardless of whether democrats control both the House and Senate, or not.
So unless she can pass a bill-partisan bill which wouldn’t resemble anything close to the proposal she has outlined on her website, she has little chance to enact it into law.
And let’s forget Harris’s policy positions. Trump’s are insane. Now he wants to pay down our debt using Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong, besides the fact the man has no clue what cryptocurrencies are! Or his new plan to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, not understanding that it would mean most Americans wouldn’t qualify for credit cards and it would destroy an entire credit industry since investors won’t give a 10% interest rate to low quality individuals (risk v reward).
Oh, and did I mention, Trump wants to deport 11 million people immediately! It would require ICE deputizing every federal agency and agent, as well as most local and state agencies and officers; requiring hundreds of billions of dollars, and over a decade to complete. And we would lose over $2 trillion in GDP and destroy thousands of communities across the nation economically. Not to mention, we wouldn’t be able to enforce laws against citizens, or arrest and prosecute most criminals, since our police, FBI, DEA. treasury, US Marshal’s, etc…will all be dedicated to immigrant removal.
Furthermore, Harris doesn’t want to destroy NATO, and she will continue to defend Ukraine and Israel. And she is at least a stable individual, at a time when markets and the world require stability.
Trump, on the other hand, only offers hair-brain ideas, and is the most reckless, impulsive and volatile politician ever to sit in the Oval. He wants to neutralize NATO, form alliances with tyrants, charge allies for the privilege of being our allies, and use the presidency for his own personal and monetary benefit. In other words, all he offers is chaos and destruction and a commitment to enriching himself.
So please Romney, tell us the real reason you refuse to grow a PAIR and support Harris? It’s a rhetorical question, no need to answer!…:)
There are some very good reasons for forgiving student loans and there are several different plans offering different degrees of relief. It certainly is not the issue that keeps me awake at night. We ought to have public university systems, taxpayer funded, to fully develop our human resources and give a hand up to those who otherwise could not afford a college education. A comprehensive look at the arguments for and against forgiving student loans can be found at: https://www.procon.org/headlines/should-student-loan-debt-be-easier-to-discharge-in-bankruptcy-top-3-pros-cons/
What keeps me awake at night is that there are so many Americans who believe they belong to a privileged class of humanity due to racial, cultural and religious superiority. These same people believe true democracy rests in absolute loyalty to a "leader" who is the only one who can assure them the greatness they deserve. If that entails violence, cheating, and abuse of "lesser" humans, that is ok. The leader is beyond judgment; whatever immoral acts, scams, and crimes he committed are irrelevant in light of his special mission as the embodiment of the state, the vessel that will protect their exceptionalism.
Agreed. However, it should be merit based, and students need to keep at least a 3.0 gpa. I also think we should offer support to first responders, nurses, doctors, teachers and all those who agree to serve this nation. They should have access to free education: Period! IMHO…:)
Romney was the guy who tied up the family dog and put him in a crate on top of his car for a long car trip! Our dog always rode in the back seat of the car with his family. Yes, Romney should do the right thing but he is a corporate raider at heart and destroyed many companies and took the worker’s pensions as well. A grifter just like Traitor Trump!
For years I have remarked to friends how Mitt will never be like George, his father. I had great respect for George Romney. I have very little respect for Mitt.
Mitt Romney is a snob. An elitist. "I like cheesy grits" did not fly with his blue-collar constituents. "Which one of your sons might serve in our Military," asked a reporter. Romney retorted, "None. They are too busy serving me." Ah, the shear palpable arrogance! The man with elevators for his cars who tied the family dog to outside of the family station wagon during a road trip pissed of a lot of dog owners, including me. Romney, like many of his Republican counterparts, is a wimp; an aloof spineless wimp. In the likeness of an ancient Roman Patrician, Romney shows weakness in the absence of strength. He luxuriates in his wealth and status, fully out of touch with America's current reality and internal threat. Once a snob, always a snob.
Romney has no courage. The silver spoon gags him. This isn’t his worse moment though. That was looking for Trump to appoint him to the cabinet. Craven is as craven does. And it is permanent. Stick a fork in him. Sorry Steve.
Mitt’s a dodo bird…docile and extinct. He was never his father (George Romney). Romney gummed through his presidential race and had no teeth to fight . Now he can’t get his dentures out of the glass.
. . . said the pious prude, dabbing the corners of the manners monitor 's mouth daintily and with chin high, eyes half shut with sanctimonious condescension in sentorious sensoring superiority. Tah tah. Politics is fucking brutality, it is war and all tactics are allowed, congruent to the fucking knife fight that it is. Attempting to keep things civil in the face of feral mayhem is blissninny bullshit.
Let us be astonished at the hundreds of notable Republicans who risked much to speak out against Trump and pledge support to Harris. Never saw that action take place in my lifetime. Romney, a Mormon, has a different belief system, has done as much as he is comfortable doing: publicly stating that he is not endorsing Trump. We don’t need anything further. It is now up to us, Democrats, Republicans and Independents, to vote in record numbers for Harris.
Hopefully Mitt isn’t finished fighting for the country yet.
Though I know it must be disheartening for him to see the Republican Party in tatters, he must remember that it is disheartening to all of us, independents, democrats, and republicans to see and feel the wrath of MAGA and the way it has destroyed the once venerable party.
But, Steve is right on again. Democracy needs Mitt Romney to stay vigilant and not back down. For the sake of his family and all America Mitt needs to continue to help the effort to defeat MAGA.
Steve’s readers are right when they say that we can use a little help from the Texas, Florida, and Kennebunkport Maine Bush family too!
Mitt Romney had a good run, and he was a candle in a volcano when MAGA emerged. His legacy, however, will be that he knelt to the feet of Trump despite his disgust for him, and chose party over country when it was needed most.
Romney won’t do anything. He won’t get in the game. And even if he did, do you think Mitch McConnell or Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley et al won’t blast forth to castigate and pillory Mitt? And so will MIKE LEE. Also from Utah. Whose lips are permanently misshapen from being so firmly affixed to the bottom of Trump’s shoes. Their time to speak up was when this miscreant was RISING and gaining strength, after he attempted to overthrow the government the FIRST TIME. After he became an adjudicated rapist. After he was shown to have absconded with boxes and boxes of classified documents and flushed some down the toilet. After he defrauded the state of New York. After he became a convicted felon.
But they didn’t. They just stood by silently. Silence is assent. It’s complicity. It’s lining up behind what you claim to revile.
It’s contemptible.
Well I’m no Mitt fan but he did vote to impeach. It’s time for him to find that same spine and endorse Harris. Country before Party.
Excellent! Thanks, Steve! And where are the Bush Brothers???? Disappointing, to say the least!!
Shhhhh, you’ll give away their hiding place; In a darkened closet with the rest of the spineless Republican jellyfish.
It’s ironic that Liz Chaney, a woman, turns out to be the only conservative with a pair of stones among her Republican geldings.
Look again at who stood up early on in the Jan. 6 investigations and it was young GOP women with so much to loose, but they told the truth. In this mess, it has been the women who are the Truth Tellers.
Don’t forget about Adam Kinzinger!
VERY good man!!!
All these prim and proper White guys will never do what they should! They are stumbling over their egos and legacies! History books reign?
I know Romney is a committed LDS member If only he would live out the nature of that commitment and tell his fellow LDS members why they should vote against DJT.
With Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, it is more important than ever that non-Maga Republicans openly endorse Harris and acknowledge Trump is tempermentally and morally unfit and unqualified to be President, and that his VP choice is proof, since Vance is no better a candidate than Trump himself.
Mike Johnson, who as a member of Congress voted against certifying Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electors in 2020 and accused some states of unconstitutionally altering their voting rules during the pandemic, also backed Trump's claims the election was rigged because Dominion cheated in Biden's favor. When asked if he would certify this year's election he said he would if it was fair.
Obviously, people like Johnson, who support Project 2025 and are extreme members of Maga, stand ready to claim the election was rigged again, should their orange Messiah lose. We need Romney to stop wallowing in self-pity and speak out against Trump and for Harris.
I don’t get why they haven’t given Johnson the boot as Speaker.
Would you prefer Jim Jordan who apparently is setting himself up to become Speaker should the GOP win the House? If we think that Mike Johnson hadn’t done much, Jordan has done even less.
As the old saying goes, "six of one, 1/2 dozen of the other."
Their depth of qualified people is sadly shallow.
Because he derailed McCarthy’s ethics investigation of Goetz. Apparently Matt runs the House.
Steve, or anyone, please send this column of The Warning to Mitt Romney. He needs to do this one last act of true patriotism in helping us get rid of the orange fascist.
Mitt puts Mormonism and party over country! His GOP/Republican party is over and gone!
Someone should tell Romney! And, give the Bush Bros a call, too.
Great piece today Steve. I just don't think Mitt has it in him to speak up, sadly.
He isn’t brave enough
“Personally, every time I read about the student loan forgiveness issue it brings me to the edge of an aneurysm, but even on the things that make us craziest, the hour has come to yield and defer the fight over small things to a different time because what we share in common far outweighs what we differ about.”
Seriously Steve, student loan debt is the issue that keeps you up at night? Only kidding…:)
What makes me crazy and brings me to the edge of an aneurysm is this nonsense about policy.
On Immigration, Harris said she will revive and sign the Langford/Sinema Bill into law: the most comprehensive immigration bill ever. On the economy: Goldman Sachs says her plan will spur growth and add jobs, while Trump’s nonsensical TARIFF plan will cost $6 trillion, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, leave this country in a recession and guess what, China will not pay for it, and it won’t reduce inflation, it will increase inflation.
Now this is why Romney and guys like Brett Stephen’s are intellectually dishonest and complete cowards. They both know policy is BULL SHIT! Regardless of Harris’s stated economic goals, she has little to no chance of getting it passed in a divided Congress. In the senate, she needs 60 votes, regardless of whether democrats control both the House and Senate, or not.
So unless she can pass a bill-partisan bill which wouldn’t resemble anything close to the proposal she has outlined on her website, she has little chance to enact it into law.
And let’s forget Harris’s policy positions. Trump’s are insane. Now he wants to pay down our debt using Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong, besides the fact the man has no clue what cryptocurrencies are! Or his new plan to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, not understanding that it would mean most Americans wouldn’t qualify for credit cards and it would destroy an entire credit industry since investors won’t give a 10% interest rate to low quality individuals (risk v reward).
Oh, and did I mention, Trump wants to deport 11 million people immediately! It would require ICE deputizing every federal agency and agent, as well as most local and state agencies and officers; requiring hundreds of billions of dollars, and over a decade to complete. And we would lose over $2 trillion in GDP and destroy thousands of communities across the nation economically. Not to mention, we wouldn’t be able to enforce laws against citizens, or arrest and prosecute most criminals, since our police, FBI, DEA. treasury, US Marshal’s, etc…will all be dedicated to immigrant removal.
Furthermore, Harris doesn’t want to destroy NATO, and she will continue to defend Ukraine and Israel. And she is at least a stable individual, at a time when markets and the world require stability.
Trump, on the other hand, only offers hair-brain ideas, and is the most reckless, impulsive and volatile politician ever to sit in the Oval. He wants to neutralize NATO, form alliances with tyrants, charge allies for the privilege of being our allies, and use the presidency for his own personal and monetary benefit. In other words, all he offers is chaos and destruction and a commitment to enriching himself.
So please Romney, tell us the real reason you refuse to grow a PAIR and support Harris? It’s a rhetorical question, no need to answer!…:)
There are some very good reasons for forgiving student loans and there are several different plans offering different degrees of relief. It certainly is not the issue that keeps me awake at night. We ought to have public university systems, taxpayer funded, to fully develop our human resources and give a hand up to those who otherwise could not afford a college education. A comprehensive look at the arguments for and against forgiving student loans can be found at: https://www.procon.org/headlines/should-student-loan-debt-be-easier-to-discharge-in-bankruptcy-top-3-pros-cons/
What keeps me awake at night is that there are so many Americans who believe they belong to a privileged class of humanity due to racial, cultural and religious superiority. These same people believe true democracy rests in absolute loyalty to a "leader" who is the only one who can assure them the greatness they deserve. If that entails violence, cheating, and abuse of "lesser" humans, that is ok. The leader is beyond judgment; whatever immoral acts, scams, and crimes he committed are irrelevant in light of his special mission as the embodiment of the state, the vessel that will protect their exceptionalism.
Agreed. However, it should be merit based, and students need to keep at least a 3.0 gpa. I also think we should offer support to first responders, nurses, doctors, teachers and all those who agree to serve this nation. They should have access to free education: Period! IMHO…:)
What you post makes sense and I agree.
Romney was the guy who tied up the family dog and put him in a crate on top of his car for a long car trip! Our dog always rode in the back seat of the car with his family. Yes, Romney should do the right thing but he is a corporate raider at heart and destroyed many companies and took the worker’s pensions as well. A grifter just like Traitor Trump!
Yes. Poor Seamus tells one a lot about Romney's character.
For years I have remarked to friends how Mitt will never be like George, his father. I had great respect for George Romney. I have very little respect for Mitt.
Mitt Romney is a snob. An elitist. "I like cheesy grits" did not fly with his blue-collar constituents. "Which one of your sons might serve in our Military," asked a reporter. Romney retorted, "None. They are too busy serving me." Ah, the shear palpable arrogance! The man with elevators for his cars who tied the family dog to outside of the family station wagon during a road trip pissed of a lot of dog owners, including me. Romney, like many of his Republican counterparts, is a wimp; an aloof spineless wimp. In the likeness of an ancient Roman Patrician, Romney shows weakness in the absence of strength. He luxuriates in his wealth and status, fully out of touch with America's current reality and internal threat. Once a snob, always a snob.
Romney has no courage. The silver spoon gags him. This isn’t his worse moment though. That was looking for Trump to appoint him to the cabinet. Craven is as craven does. And it is permanent. Stick a fork in him. Sorry Steve.
!!! That is an astonishing assessment. Brilliantly stated.
Romney! Wake up for Christ sakes! Grow a pair. It could and should make a difference.
Don’t waste this opportunity!
Love your Country!!! Goddam it!!!
Mitt’s a dodo bird…docile and extinct. He was never his father (George Romney). Romney gummed through his presidential race and had no teeth to fight . Now he can’t get his dentures out of the glass.
Eric, no need to make personal attacks. Let’s keep it civil. All of us can comment without making ugly personal attacks.
. . . said the pious prude, dabbing the corners of the manners monitor 's mouth daintily and with chin high, eyes half shut with sanctimonious condescension in sentorious sensoring superiority. Tah tah. Politics is fucking brutality, it is war and all tactics are allowed, congruent to the fucking knife fight that it is. Attempting to keep things civil in the face of feral mayhem is blissninny bullshit.
Eric. Velvet paws.
Let us be astonished at the hundreds of notable Republicans who risked much to speak out against Trump and pledge support to Harris. Never saw that action take place in my lifetime. Romney, a Mormon, has a different belief system, has done as much as he is comfortable doing: publicly stating that he is not endorsing Trump. We don’t need anything further. It is now up to us, Democrats, Republicans and Independents, to vote in record numbers for Harris.
I don’t get it. Mitt had the cojones to stand up for impeachment. Where is THAT man?
Hopefully Mitt isn’t finished fighting for the country yet.
Though I know it must be disheartening for him to see the Republican Party in tatters, he must remember that it is disheartening to all of us, independents, democrats, and republicans to see and feel the wrath of MAGA and the way it has destroyed the once venerable party.
But, Steve is right on again. Democracy needs Mitt Romney to stay vigilant and not back down. For the sake of his family and all America Mitt needs to continue to help the effort to defeat MAGA.
Steve’s readers are right when they say that we can use a little help from the Texas, Florida, and Kennebunkport Maine Bush family too!
Mitt Romney had a good run, and he was a candle in a volcano when MAGA emerged. His legacy, however, will be that he knelt to the feet of Trump despite his disgust for him, and chose party over country when it was needed most.