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As President Trump has lurched from one crisis to another, Republicans have chosen a strategy of compartmentalization over confrontation, preferring to look away in hopes that the storm would pass. Now, after a pair of stunning revelations about the president, that approach may have run aground. For the GOP, this has become a moment of reckoning.
On big matters, such as the report about Trump sharing intelligence with the Russians that was provided by a key ally, Republicans have reacted with shock but not condemnation. They have hoped to create some distance while avoiding building barriers with a volatile president who came to office largely independent of the party he claims as his own.
When the president tweets something provocative, they prefer not to give the fire more oxygen. But the regularity of these fires is taking its toll. On Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed his frustration in the way he often does, through understatement. “I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so we can focus on our agenda,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
That was before the Times’ report, widely confirmed by other news organizations, that Comey had made a memo of a Feb. 14 conversation with the president in which Trump had said of the Flynn investigation, “I hope you can let this go.” That meeting came a day after an apparently conflicted Trump fired his national security adviser, who had been one of his most loyal acolytes during the campaign, for misleading Vice President Pence about contacts with the Russian ambassador. As Trump
The Republicans are getting exactly what they deserve, for allowing this POS Nut-JOB to be their Presidential nominee!
As President Trump has lurched from one crisis to another, Republicans have chosen a strategy of compartmentalization over confrontation, preferring to look away in hopes that the storm would pass. Now, after a pair of stunning revelations about the president, that approach may have run aground. For the GOP, this has become a moment of reckoning.
On big matters, such as the report about Trump sharing intelligence with the Russians that was provided by a key ally, Republicans have reacted with shock but not condemnation. They have hoped to create some distance while avoiding building barriers with a volatile president who came to office largely independent of the party he claims as his own.
When the president tweets something provocative, they prefer not to give the fire more oxygen. But the regularity of these fires is taking its toll. On Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed his frustration in the way he often does, through understatement. “I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so we can focus on our agenda,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
That was before the Times’ report, widely confirmed by other news organizations, that Comey had made a memo of a Feb. 14 conversation with the president in which Trump had said of the Flynn investigation, “I hope you can let this go.” That meeting came a day after an apparently conflicted Trump fired his national security adviser, who had been one of his most loyal acolytes during the campaign, for misleading Vice President Pence about contacts with the Russian ambassador. As Trump
The Republicans are getting exactly what they deserve, for allowing this POS Nut-JOB to be their Presidential nominee!
Stuff like this matters to the tabloid readers and drama queens.
You never once mentioned policy. It's always about policy.
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Yep! I just said this in another thread. Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN, IT'S TIME TO SHOW YOUR CARDS. But choose wisely. If they back Trump, they will be tied to his sinking ship and will greatly hurt their chances of reelection in 2018. If they decide to distance themselves from Trump and consider impeachment (if evidence warrants it), then they will help themselves in 2018 elections.
What is more important to them: staying loyal to their party and standing by Trump, or do what's best for their own interests (reelection) and distance themselves from the Trump White House disaster and impeach him if necessary.
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