The tragedy they are creating will only harm them.. Seriously doubtful though...we will all pay a price for their shenanigans.

The Iranian General did not have his head on a pike, better and faster to just blow it up.

For 45 years, ever since Watergate, the GOP has been nursing the belief that if they had just stuck by Nixon in a unified manner they could have saved his sorry ass. They may be right.

At last the Republicans have been given the opportunity to live out their coulda, woulda, shoulda fantasy, and they be gone completely mad. They don't seem to have noticed they've chosen a virtual monster to defend, and they don't seem to be able to step back and get any kind of long view on the situation. Or stop themselves.

I believe this is a big motivating factor for the GOP, in addition to fear of Trump and too much faith in his kooky base.

Right now, they see Trump as a vehivle to holding on to power, since Trump brings out the base, and is corrupt enough to cheat to win. They're fine with that. They just need him to win. The minute he stops being able to win, they'll forget they ever knew him.

they think conservative values - anti-abortion, tax cuts for rich people, pollution, corruption as ordinary business - will bail them out. They think they can hush up the campaign cash flows from foreign fascists. They see it as a mental shift much like Lincoln ushered in with the Civil War - industrialization and cutthroat capitalism - and they will make bank on it. Democrats want ethics and rule of law, Republicans want laissez-faire and rule by money.

That's the choice. If we don't seize the narrative soon, fast, hard, and completely, we may never take back the country.

By not removing him, they embolden him to double down on election tampering, which benefits them as well.

I seriously doubt Pence would or could go as far in terms of election tampering.

of government and have the ability to keep control. To think otherwise is wishful at best.