The Hill: Romney calls for bipartisanship in farewell Senate speech
by Ashleigh Fields - 12/04/24 6:15 PM ET
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) gave his Senate farewell speech on Wednesday where he urged elected officials to prioritize unity in the face of stubborn partisanship.
“My life’s work has been a group affair,” Romney, who also served as governor of Massachusetts and the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, said in his address.
Romney lauded passage of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, reforms to the Electoral Count Act, gun safety legislation and marriage legislation that included religious protections. But he said more could have been accomplished if it weren’t for “partisan politics.”
“I will leave this chamber with a sense of achievement. But in truth, I will also leave with the recognition that I did not achieve everything I had hoped,” Romney said.
“Among other things, the scourge of partisan politics has frustrated repeated efforts to stabilize our national debt. Without the burden of the interest on that debt, we would be able to spend three times as much as we do on military procurement,” he continued.
“Three times as many aircraft, three times as many ships, three times as many drones, spacecraft, cyber defenses. Or alternatively, we could spend double the amount we spend on Social Security benefits every month. Our national credit card is almost maxed out, and America risks becoming debt poor.”
Romney said his “biggest surprise in the Senate has been how much I enjoy the other senators on both sides of the aisle” but acknowledged he won’t miss “the myriad meaningless votes” or “10-minute votes that last an hour.”
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Yeah, good luck with that, Mittens...
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Ahem..."Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition, Hard Cover copy of Atlas Shrugged, you worthless piece of amphibian shit."
My "apologies" if that "feeds into the sickness of denial, deceit and distrust", but seriously, fuck you and the "both sides" dressage horse you rode in on.
Where Mitt? Where was that "concern" while your party was ramming trickle-down economics down the throat of the middle class?
Was that the, how did you put it? "They scourge of partisanship"?
Was it "deceit", or "denial" that enabled you to ram through 3 Wingnut, Reactionary Confederate Supreme Court Justices? One stolen from the duly elected President of the United States, and another "rammed" through eight days before the presidential elections. I believe you voted to confirm both.
Some would say; "actions like that could result in "DISTRUST". Some might also describe that as "THE SCOURGE OF PARTISANSHIP"
Sorry Mitt, but folks being unhappy with the scraps that fall from the Koch brothers table are not "talking past you". We're fucking pissed.
You know what truly makes folks like me hate the everloving fuck out of people like you? It's that you think I'm fucking stupid.
You have gotten everything you've wanted.
- A POS reactionary Wingnut Supreme Court that will do whatever the fuck the Federalist Society tells them to do.
- A POS reactionary Wingnut Supreme Court that will even nullify elections as needed so your party never need worry about losing another election.
- Gutting of privacy rights and environmental rights.
- Tax cuts for the wealthy as far as the eye can see.
And now, after you've run over your opponents, you dare to "stretch out the hand of togetherness"?
At least Susan Collins "deceit" and "denial" is presented with a cover of ignorance. Seriously, you can honestly think that Suze isn't deceitful...she's just fucking stupid. Have you met her?
Unlike Suzy, you try to wrap your deceit in moral pompossity. It just doesn't work. It takes years of practice to make deceit look like ignorance, and Suzy is a master.
You "long for America to rise above the din to unite behind the truth"??
I long for a Senator from Utah that isn't a sniveling coward.
I am sure that if we take advice from the likes of you, neither of us will get what we long for
So, with all due respect, Fuck You!
- Max
