Mere days after voting to remove Donald Trump from the White House, Mitt Romney voted against checking Trump’s power. He fell back in line with his Republican colleagues even on a vote that was bipartisan in opposing Trump.

That vote included other moderate senators who, like Romney, have been willing to skirt GOP expectations regarding how congressional Republicans should consider Trump. Those senators include Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins. Also voting against Trump was Romney’s fellow senator from Utah, Sen. Mike Lee.

Days after voting to remove Donald Trump from the White House, Mitt Romney voted against checking Trump’s power. (photo credit: Getty Images)

And the vote very much gave Romney the opportunity to continue to oppose Trump, as it, as an Iran war powers resolution, concerned restraining Trump from taking further military action against Iran without congressional approval.

Romney’s office did not return a request for comment.

Romney reverted back to the guy who votes, as Romney said, with Trump 80 percent of the time. And through these votes, Romney said that he wants Trump out of office, yet believes that Trump should be able to go to war against Iran if he wants to.

Or is there something more at play? Does Romney want to avoid further stirring the pot (not that he would have done much of that, with eight GOP senators already voting to restrain Trump)? Does Romney want to limit voting differently than most of his colleagues as much as he feels his conscience allows?

Or perhaps Romney is just difficult to understand.

However, since Romney indeed votes four out of every five times with Trump, those of us who applauded Romney’s vote to convict Trump got too excited. Romney surprised us and we had a reaction to it.

Let’s not be surprised again. Despite having cover in Murkowski, Collins, Lee and the other GOP senators who voted to restrain Trump on Iran, we have seen Romney resume the voting behavior that shows that he is not an ally in the effort to hold the corrupt accountable.