Is he becoming a Democrat?

incompetent aka fucking crazy

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/17/politics/corker-trump-competence/index.html
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Bob Corker is no Donald Trump hater. Which makes what the Tennessee Republican senator said Thursday about the President all the more powerful.
"The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful," Corker told reporters following a speech in Chattanooga.
Later, he sounded a similar note: "We should hope that (Trump) aspires that he does some self-reflection, that he does what is necessary to demonstrate stability, to demonstrate competence, to demonstrate that he understands the character of our nation and works daily to bring out the best of the people in our nation."

Stability. Competence. Stability. Competence.
Words matter in politics. Corker, who was the mayor of Chattanooga before being elected to the Senate in 2006, knows that. Which is why his repeated emphasis on Trump's "stability" and "competence" matter.
Corker is clearly hinting at the possibility that Trump is not simply misguided in some of his policies and pronouncements -- but that he may be fundamentally unfit for the office that he currently holds.
Doubt it? Ask yourself what the opposite of stable and competent is. It's unstable and incompetent. Corker doesn't go all the way there but he is absolutely leading people to ask those questions by choosing the words he did.
In doing so, Corker is raising the stakes in the conversation Republicans are currently having about what to do about Trump in the wake of his controversial comments about the motivations of the protesters in Charlottesville over the weekend.

We may have to repost the dominoes falling

Ay, Corker no less. Louie Gohmert and Bob Cotton likely next.

And Competence
By Jason Easley on Thu, Aug 17th, 2017 at 2:53 pm

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is openly questioning Trump's mental stability, competence, and character, as Republicans are starting to come forward with serious criticisms of their own president.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/17/trump-gop-senator-questioned-mental-state-competence.html?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017453033

bat shit crazy.

I can't miss one minute of this or I may miss the moment I'm waiting for - when they take him away in a straitjacket

I have weeks of audiobooks backed up, not to mention the unwatched stuff on my DVR.

It makes me glad I'm retired so I can watch this unfolding in real time.

arrived yesterday - normally I would lock down and finish it in two days. I've managed one chapter

What will be the tipping point?

45 is one famous figure for whom I have absolutely zero respect or compassion. He is the ultimate fraud and hate-monger.

Whoops - here goes Charlie Sykes off on our guy Two Scoops...

Charlie didn't mince words

maybe that means more senators are right behind him???

Ah well

many if not Most here had the carnival barker pegged for what he was/is. A con man. A crooked one at that. A liar to boot.

Wow!

I think I might have to make up a score card.

I just wonder if there is a 'tipping point' person. Unfortunately, there's nobody like Barry Goldwater, who would be strong enough to confront trump* and tell him it's in the interest of the country that he step down.

And even if there was, I seriously doubt that trump* gives a damn about what's in the interest of the country. Just what's in the interest of his company.

I expect if there is a movement to remove him it will turn into THE constitutional crisis of all time.
He won't go quietly. He has way too much illegal stuff to hide and needs the cover of the presidency to keep it hidden.

I am frankly scared this will happen. I expect some in this country will take up arms and go into rampages on his behalf.

I live in a very Democratically represented area, in Michigan, but I am surrounded by massive rural conservative districts. I'm talking Michigan Militia kinds of constituents.

I want nothing to do with going anywhere near his account.

everything trump is crumbling and corker could lose with the right democratic challenger

I don't follow Tennessee politics but Corker seems like the kind of guy who could get elected in perpetuity in that state no matter who is president.

Which begs for the question is this a case of a Republican actually having a crisis of conscience that has nothing to do with their next campaign? If so that's a pretty big breakthrough.

trump insults commonsense and corker has tired of it, unfortunately corker can lose 40% of his base voters which makes this senate seat vulnerable

Would be changing party.

His comments are welcome but talk, as they say, is cheap.

"patriots" to do the same. This is a huge development. It will only take a small handful.

It is unfolding as it should.


Recommended!

is gathering strength!

and prop up this incompetent Trump?
Yes, he's that bad.

He's worse than that

Thanks for this

Something like, "South Carolina, What a shithole! No beautiful tall buildings like the ones I erect. I build the most beautiful structures..."

So we have

1. McCain
2. Graham
3. Flake
4. Corker

A few other maybes, but we can't move them over officially until they forcefully slam the tRump.

Now there will be some late ones piling on, those we need to watch closely.

I called his office yesterday (yes he is one of my senators). I asked the person that answered if he had made a statement about Trump's news conference yet. She said he had not. I gave her ear full politely as I could then asked her what the senator action would be to get the white supremacist and Nazi sympathizers out of the White house. I specifically mentioned Gorka, Bannon, Miller, and the President himself.

I also talked about the Justice Department asking for the information of all the people that had visited an anti-Trump website, she seemed genially appalled by that. I said that is what banana republics and dictators do the squash dissent. She said she would pass my comments on the Corker.

So I am going to take credit. Hopefully one of many that called about Trump and how unqualified he is.