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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 02:44 PM Feb 2021

Brown blasts 'spineless' GOP colleagues at trial

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Saturday chastised what he called "spineless" lawmakers who are unwilling to seriously weigh the allegations against Donald Trump due to their "abject fear" of the former president.

Brown criticized Republican colleagues who he characterized as having approached Trump's impeachment trial with a closed mind despite the "damage he's done to his country."

"It's so clear this president abused his power. It's so clear he incited violence," he said. "And my colleagues just refuse to see it because of their abject fear of Donald Trump."

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol ahead of the Saturday impeachment proceedings, Brown said he was unsure if calling witnesses would change the minds of Republicans who have already decided to acquit Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brown-blasts-spineless-gop-colleagues-at-trial/ar-BB1dEsd6?li=BBnb7Kz

Stop the invertebrate bashing.

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Brown blasts 'spineless' GOP colleagues at trial (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
Brown is the only Ohio Democrat that rustbeltvoice Feb 2021 #1
Ohioan here Chili Feb 2021 #3
Hey watch it...Pittsburgh and Erie are BLUE. Tommymac Feb 2021 #7
SPLC is a great source of info about radical hate groups yellowdogintexas Feb 2021 #8
Most of the GOP supports Trump's coup attempt. badboy67 Feb 2021 #2
They don't fear Trump. Crash2Parties Feb 2021 #4
Hopefully they don't survive 2022 burrowowl Feb 2021 #5
America was attacked and 47 GOP Senators acquitted the perpetrator bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #6
republican loser's monkeyman1 Feb 2021 #9

rustbeltvoice

(427 posts)
1. Brown is the only Ohio Democrat that
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 03:08 PM
Feb 2021

has won statewide office in several years. Going back a couple of generations, the state wide (and some local) ballots had many Smiths and Browns listed. One local election had a Brown vs. Smith, they were both born with other names.

Not to be misunderstood, Sherrod Brown is a good man, and i have voted for him. Ohio is politically, East Indiana, North Kentucky, and Upper West Virginia.

Chili

(1,725 posts)
3. Ohioan here
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 08:24 PM
Feb 2021
"Ohio is politically, East Indiana, North Kentucky, and Upper West Virginia."


Never thought of it that way, but sheesh, there you go. Southern Michigan, western Pennsylvania, too.

Just read an article posted in another thread that listed 21 domestic terrorist / hate groups in Ohio (source Southern Poverty Law Center), including Proud Boys. I guess that's why I rarely drive outside of my county (Cuyahoga).

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
7. Hey watch it...Pittsburgh and Erie are BLUE.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 01:45 PM
Feb 2021

We worked hard and got Erie this time.

I'll concede the rest of the West PA counties are more like Alabama.

yellowdogintexas

(22,119 posts)
8. SPLC is a great source of info about radical hate groups
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 07:09 PM
Feb 2021

We are loaded with them here in Texas.

That whole section in the mining regions (parts of WV, PA, OH and KY) is nothing short of scary.

Edited to add: I think Senator Sherrod Brown is just awesome




Crash2Parties

(6,017 posts)
4. They don't fear Trump.
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 02:54 AM
Feb 2021

They fear losing his voters. They enmeshed themselves so tightly with him, intentionally. They selected him and then protected him for four years - and joined his profiteering along the way.

What they fear is that they cannot survive 2022 without his voters.

 

monkeyman1

(5,109 posts)
9. republican loser's
Sun Feb 14, 2021, 11:48 PM
Feb 2021

can't believe grown ass a.k.a. republican's- can be scared of this clown ! alway's pay'd other people to do dirt'y shit . just a damn gas bag. glad he wasn't ln the military with that yell'a streak down his back !!
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