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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/10/time-to-out-republicans-not-for-what.htmlThe Rude Pundit
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10/10/2017
Time to Out Republicans (Not for What You're Thinking Of)
You've been reading the articles about how Republican Senator Bob Corker said Donald Trump's recklessness and ignorance are setting us "on the path to World War III." Or maybe you've seen the Washington Post story that quotes multiple sources, many anonymous, on how Trump is becoming isolated and rage-filled and unpredictable. Or perhaps you read Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times saying, "Among people who work in politics, Republicans as well as Democrats, it is conventional wisdom in DC that President Trump is staggeringly ill-informed, erratic, reckless and dishonest." Or you could have seen the Politico article that "Trump, several advisers and aides said, sometimes comes into the Oval Office worked into a lather from talking to friends or watching TV coverage in the morning," and they have to calm him down by rubbing his chins or something.
Corker, who isn't running for reelection in 2018, also said, "The vast majority of our caucus understands what were dealing with here...of course they understand the volatility that were dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road."
And that's the thread that runs through these articles. It's taken as true that many, many Republicans know that Trump is unfit for office. What else we can glean is something that Vox's Ezra Klein tweeted today: "Every political reporter know plenty of top Republicans routinely talk like Corker behind closed doors. There is such widespread cowardice here, and the country is paying the price."
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Here is where those political reporters and all the connected pundits come in. Yeah, you're not supposed to name your sources. Yeah, it's a big damn journalistic principle. But if I thought my best friend was going to shoot up a school, I'd violate the bro code or whatever and tell someone because that's what you do. (Note: None of my besties own guns.) When it comes to Trump, we're talking far more than that level of danger, and that's coming from Corker, one Republican who did speak out.
You know how you play this game, the one that asks, "If you could go back in time and stop Hitler, would you?" Here, you don't even have to kill a baby. But you might stop a nuclear war. You might get a madman out of the position to inflict his madness on the world.
Media folk just need to reveal the Republicans who believe that Trump can't function as the president. Out them. Let's get it all out in the open. I don't know if the next step would be for them to impeach or remove him in some way. But at least it might force them to support something like the Lieu/Markey bill to compel a president to go through Congress before launching an offensive nuclear strike.
Sure, you're gonna burn sources. But maybe that's a small price to pay to force sunshine into the darkness we find ourselves facing.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)It was a plea for the rethugs who know even more than we do to do something about it!
I sear that if Dean Heller came out, stood beside Corker, agreed with him, and promised to vote to impeach and remove, I would seriously consider voting for him. I probably wouldn't actually vote for him, but I would consider it.
spanone
(135,841 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Moral Compass
(1,521 posts)Skittles
(153,164 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)Keeping your puke mouth shut about the orange madman in order to facilitate getting your puke agenda through congress and onto to the desk of the dolt so that he can sign it is one thing. But keeping your mouth shut when we are all very possibly facing nuclear annihilation is quite another. I just hope enough congressional pukes have it in them to do the right thing.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)republicans need to start putting the country first and speaking on the record and getting rid of trump.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)for more, anyway.
Orrex
(63,213 posts)Trump is advancing the GOP agenda, and nothing (including the credible threat of nuclear annihilation) will make Republicans rein Trump in and thereby compromise that agenda.
Well, except for one thing. If Trump's idiocy threatens the GOP's majority hold on the congress as we head into the 2018 elections, they may act against him. Unless they've already stolen the election, of course.
Note to my beloved, lurking readers from The Disasterist, Conservative Sewer and Jackass Radials: Go fuck yourselves.