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Excellent! We need a Senate full of statesmen like Ben Sasse... thanks for sharing, Erick!

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Erick, why are you having to dare people to listen? You have egregiously and flamboyantly assured anyone who will listen that the voters in the 14th District - where I live and work - are embarrassed about Marjorie Taylor Greene. Despite NO EVIDENCE of any embarrassment, you are now having to dare these chastened and reasonable people to listen to this. Pick a lane, and have some integrity and REPENT.

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Eric please TRY TO REMEMBER both YOU & I (along with many others) both were enjoying the Trump years until Jan 6. There are and always will be extremists on both sides. The right side extremists got there 15 minutes on Jan 6 just like the left side extremists got theirs last summer. neither were right. We would even be having this discussion if the Capitol Police Supervision would of done their job. Trump knows what happened was not good, said so quietly and left quietly. Let's try to get back to being the quite good guys like you did yesterday on your show. Shhhh

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I lived through Nixon's resignation to avoid impeachment. Most everyone believed that his resignation (being out of office) would shield him from impeachment. It did, then. Probably not now. In the history of our Republic has anyone ever been impeached and convicted once out of office? To make such a sudden shift in precedence is not conservative. It's radical. And it is not conducive to a civil society where people are allowed to publicly disagree. It also is pretty iffy for Republicans to support. The names I think of which prompted loud and enduring public calls for impeachment mostly include Republicans like Reagan, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney.

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I like Ben Sasse. But, what he voted was not right constitutionally. Should you impeach someone who is out of office? Is the purpose of impeachment to say we don't like what a person did while he/she was in office? Can we impeach Franklin Roosevelt for interning 120,000 Japanese though he is out of office (not to mention dead)? It makes a mockery of the constitutional role of impeachment--which is to remove someone from office--it isn't a censure vote. I'm not for censuring Sasse any more than Chief Justice Roberts for his Obamacare is a tax bill ruling, but Sasse has a major blind spot on what constitutional procedures are for which reduces his viability for leadership in my eyes.

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Erick Erickson you need to apologize the Marjorie Taylor Greene. Does this look like someone that’s crazy? This video definitely shows you are the villain Erick Go to the 15 minute mark of the video. https://mb.ntd.com/live-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-holds-press-conference-after-being-stripped-of-committee-posts_559940.html?fbclid=IwAR3vs4Z9P9Sgag_4CqEXWt5TptFqzPmo7nzEwb9bFjpi9dpCK8nvxCnz64A

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From the comments I’ve read, I’m not sure if some recognize that Sasse’s video was directed not at Nebraska voters, nor at voters outside of Nebraska, but specifically at those members of the Nebraska Republican Party State Central Committee who were reportedly considering a move to censure Sasse. I think that context helps interpret his message.

To those who imply that Sasse should set aside his conscience and only vote the way his constituents want him to vote, two thoughts:

1) Keep in mind that a fair share of Sasse’s NE constituents who disapproved of Sasse’s openness to convicting Trump did so because they had believed the lies that Trump had peddled for months about the election. Thus, to vote according to their wishes would be to vote according to lies.

2) Please consider the words of statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, in 1774:

“It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

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Well that was well stated. Numbers don’t lie

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Ben Sasse is just Mitt Romney part Deaux. He talks the part of a conservative, but doesn’t have the fight to stand up for conservative values. As a native son of Nebraska, he doesn’t represent my conservative beliefs and values.

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I listened.

Sasse makes some great points. Most of which I agree. My one problem is the same problem for almost all politicians. Sasse says to his listeners “I will always vote my conscience”. That is THE PROBLEM in my opinion. Elected politicians are supposed to represent their constituents and vote what the majority of their constituents want......NOT THEIR CONSCIENCE!

And P.S. - I did not hear him say to shoot the capitol protestors.

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Of course Sasse is right about a lot of the horribleness of Trumpism, BUT this is just piling on to the overwhelming bashing that conservatism takes from the main stream media. And I fully understand Trumpism and conservatism are not the same thing, but what's the point? Is Sasse angling for a lieutenantship in the McCain - Romney wing of the party? Meanwhile, we wait for one sane "mainstream" Democrat to call out AOC, "the squad", BLM, Antifa, cancel culture, big tech, etc etc. Patrick Moynihan, where are you when we need you?

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2024 candidate

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While nothing Sasse said was wrong, if this is the leadership that's going to bring conservative victory then there's no hope. This is principled talk with no action. That's not going to work anymore. Where was he in 2017-18 when they could have rammed our agenda through? The democrats are doing that now with only 50 seats in the senate. So far Sasse has only voted against one Biden cabinet nominee. Might as well just vote for everything he's proposing. He's no Romney, Murkowski, or Collins, I'll give him that. But uselessly principled doesn't help the country either. Him repeating the naive statement (often used by Erick) that the 1/6 incident was 2 months in the making was the icing on the cake. That was 20+ years in the making, showing how restrained conservatives actually are. I fear we are going back to the same old GOP combination of big government establishment + "principled" conservatives who accomplish nothing. Sorry, the average conservative voter is done with that. I took Erick's invitation and unsubscribed, not enraged by Sasse's statement but by the spineless lack of action by him and his ilk.

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So, because I voted for someone I'm part of a "culture of personality?" Just wow. I accepted the loss. I don't have to like the current president. I didn't have to like Trump personally either. But what I'm seeing and expected to happen with the Democrat "cult" of socialism IS happening with Biden and his group. His pen is being used to ruin this country. And he will succeed. Get ready for the State to fill in for God and any religion to be over ruled. Yes, we have a Constitution, but I'm already seeing it being bent and corrupted by social media platforms and their "kings." The Second Amendment is being pulled apart piece by piece. Just wait for the rest to fall.

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I always go back The Who singing, “We don’t get fooled again”! Let’s move forward

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I hit the "Like" button on Youtube. Not a big fan of Sasse, but that was good. However, what does "extending the American dream to more of our brothers and sisters" mean? I believe a lot of people have become suspicious of bomfog in general.

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