I just finally got to my meditation of the day and got the following:
I saw the people in the senate chamber. The R’s (with the exception of one?) vote to acquit. You would think that they are jubilant, but they have a bad feeling in the pit of their stomachs. They know that they have sealed the fate of their place in history. I see crowds of people demonstrating. They are singing, “We Shall Overcome”. The senators hear or are aware of this which adds to their discomfort. I see T. in the WH. He is in a wheelchair. He is happy but tired and mentally foggy.
@deetoo I just saw after I finished that Romney is planning to vote yes.
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is voting to convict as well as Mitt Romney ~ I am encouraged that not all of them are full of Kool-Aid. And the Guardian just now announced that "Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema will reportedly vote to convict Trump on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress." she was seen as a swing vote. She is voting guilty on both counts.
Thanks for the good news. Doug Jones is the most vulnerable Dem senator up for reelection in 2020. He won a special election in 2017 against that crackpot Roy Moore. I wondered how he would vote, and am happy to know that he's following his conscience. Even if he loses in 2020, at least he can sleep at night.
I never warmed up to Mitt Romney (R), my former governor, but today he is a hero. He stood up to the dark GOP cult and is voting to convict Trump.
I also should add that when he was governor of Massachusetts, he passed in 2006 the prototype health insurance policy that became the model for Obamacare.
I just posted on my Senators Facebook page : He is forever Impeached and you are forever complicit. May you never look in a mirror that you don't see your betrayal of the American people reflected back at you and may your sleep be ever disrupted with the shame of your actions.
@jeanne-mayell, I thought the attached was an interesting piece on Romney's reasoning to convict T.
I will never understand, though, why he allowed himself to be played by the Orange One when T invited Romney to meet with him about the Sec of State position.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/romney-impeach-trump/606127/
I am choosing at this time to focus on the heroes, not the weaklings. It gives me strength.
And you, dear Community, are heroes.
Romney was wonderful. A point of light.
Interesting to note that both Republican Presidential candidates who ran against Obama (Romney and McCain). acted honorably and bravely. They had their finest hour standing up for what was right and just. They (arguably) had their finest hour in the time of Trump.
Thank you Sen. Romney.
It will not be easy going for him in the near future. He is a profile in courage.
*Adding that "arguably" mostly for McCain because his time as a prisoner of war was truly remarkable and heroic by all accounts.
I plan on sending lots of light to Romney, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Doug Jones, Kirsten Synema. Trump said he would go after anyone who went against him. Ask for protection... ?
(I heard that Schiff's family and he have received death threats. ? )
@journeywithme2, I love what you wrote to your senator.
@jeanne-mayell, I really like your idea of focusing on the heroes. What's that saying ...?
What you focus on, expands.
In addition to Democrats Sinema and Jones, we should also add Joe Manchin and Jon Tester to your list of heroes. They are two Ds from Red states that strongly supported T, who voted to convict.