Mitt Romney’s brow is furrowed. Again. It’s approaching peak furrow in his distress and dismay over Donald Trump’s “brazen and unprecedented” and “wrong and appalling” behavior. What Romney is not yet saying to accompany all those adjectives is what exactly he plans to do about it.
Romney is not wrong in his description: “When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated,” he tweeted, continuing to say that “By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.”
True! What are the action items available to a United States senator from the Republican Party? Hmmm … I’m not seeing anything in those tweets.
Graded on the Senate Republicans’ curve, Romney is doing pretty well—certainly better than fellow smarm-master Marco Rubio, whose self-satisfied dodge on Trump asking China to interfere in the 2020 elections is that “I don’t think it’s a real request. I think he did it to get you guys” in the media. Graded on the generically responsible adult curve, though, Romney still falls short.
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