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By Avery Anapol - 10/13/17 08:54 AM EDT
A former aide to President George W. Bush and opinion writer for the Washington Post wrote Friday morning that its time for the GOP to panic about President Trumps fitness for office.
Michael Gerson, who served as a deputy assistant and director of speechwriting in the Bush administration, writes that Trumps personal conflicts with his advisers, aides and lawmakers in his own party should concern leaders that Trump's unfitness to serve as president could do permanent damage to the country.
The presidents feud with Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) has made headlines this month, as have reports that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a moron, that chief of staff John Kelly is frustrated to the point of wanting to leave his post and that Trump hates everyone in the White House.
In the op-ed, Gerson railed against the GOP and accused Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) of "bland complacency" in Trump's antics, warning that it is time for elected Republicans to voice their concerns about the president as Corker has.
The time for whispered criticisms and quiet snickering is over," Gerson writes. "The time for panic and decision is upon us.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)country and will continue to enable him. I can't decide who I despise more, 45 or the GOP?
atreides1
(16,079 posts)Along with their voters, who are nothing more then inhuman slags...that are a waste of air and space!!!
Initech
(100,076 posts)Fuck them all!
Merlot
(9,696 posts)From all indications trumpft has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old. He's not fit for the job and the repubs have known this from day one. trumpft has no expeirience if public service. The gop are the rational ones who are allowing this to continue.
trumpft makes decisions based on petty greviences and revenge and the gop is ok with that.
the gop is ok with people being kicked off healthcare and dying.
The gop is ok with all of this which makes them much much worse than trumpft.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So yeah, maybe that prospect could bring mental focus even to the Reputin Party.
cilla4progress
(24,733 posts)Look sane
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)help to everybody else but the rich who he wants to give a huge tax cut.
What a nothing disappointment.
And McConnell, his counterpart in the Senate is just as craven.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)he'll do what ever he can to dismantle the gov't and if it means putting up with trumptf so be it.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Besides that, he's already tipped his hand to us when he was Mitt Romney's running mate.
He's got nothing, not even a pair of deuces.
If they shut down gerrymandering in Wisconsin (please-please-please Supreme Court!) Ryan will be out of a job.
NBachers
(17,110 posts)It's the Hieronymus Bosch style of government.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)The Garden of Earthly Delights reminds us much of America's current mental state, as well as our government.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Trump's is Hieronymus Bosch government indeed!
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)😡
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)That is why they have not act to address the situation. They are waiting as long as possible to the midterms to they can gauge the outcome. If it appears that they will lose the majority or Worse lose a gross majority of their seats then they will act to remove Trump in an attempt to be seen as the saviors of the country. If there is no fear of losing the majority they will do nothing so as to not upset voters. They will view that as support for the administration and will align themselves with the administration. If that happens then be very afraid because it will get a whole lot worse. If that happens Trump will become a despot.
Normally I would say that the Democrats are likely to to take the house and the Senate but then again I thought Clinton was a shoe-in
not fooled
(5,801 posts)AKA lying, cheating, and stealing.
That's how the pukes think they will get their 1000-year reich. And the only way they can maintain power because the American people--other than the brain-dead 30%--don't want their sh*tty agenda.
keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Likewise..... I thought Trump was the only one that could not beat her.
We all underestimated conservative hate.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)They have no backbone, no patriotism, no courage, no honor.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)They might be afraid of Bannon, who's capable of primarying any one of them. However it's still up to us Democrats to run good worthy opponents every time. McConnell got re-elected in 2014 so his term runs until 2020. We have to get the Russian hackers, the "fixed" voting machines and the GOP's voter suppression efforts out before 2020.
Paul Ryan is from seriously gerrymandered Wisconsin, and the SCOTUS may give us some help with that. With a favorable ruling on the Wisconsin gerrymandering case, Ryan would face tougher opposition and could lose his re-election.
If the Democratic Party doesn't offer good candidates to run against these guys, nobody has a reason to vote against Ryan or McConnell or any othe Republican.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Much as they tried to hide it, anyone who knew drunks recognized all the signs at the time that he was not a "recovering" alcoholic.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)I've always wondered if he fell when drunk.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)it's up to the sane republicans to stand with America. E pluribus unum.
LisaM
(27,811 posts)Frankly, the people who aided and abetted Bush when he stole the election from Al Gore have a pretty weak leg to stand on. His SCOTUS picks alone helped Trump win. But these people will never own it.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)From the administration that started ac war based on lies that we all will paying decades for. Your input is not very important to me, but that's me.
Peace
lark
(23,099 posts)So freaking sick of these hypocrites who never voice a word about the crazy meanness of their party until they are out of office. They all totally disgust me!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...when they could have urged Republican electors to switch to a somewhat-sane candidate.
Besides, I'm only interested when a "top Bush aide," or the like, tells them to panic for their jobs and their Congressional majorities. Because thats the only thing that will cause them to move from being "deeply troubled" to actually doing anything.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)the Republican fools. Time to panic was 11-9-2017
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)fucking morons!
KPN
(15,645 posts)selections among his concerns.
While this might be a good sign, it's not about policy -- which is not a good sign.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Until recent weeks, Drumpf served their purpose: providing daily (hourly?) distractions, while they quietly set about their mission of dismantling all the progressive and moderate changes that President Obama and a short-lived Democratic majority in Congress had accomplished.
So, just now, it's dawning on some of the smarter ones that they have unleashed the orange Golem upon this world and no one is brave enough to remove the shem from the beast's mouth. IF we survive this ordeal, it would serve the GOP bloody-well-right to be decimated. And Drumpf, Paul rAyn and McTurtle deserve to be exiled to an ice floe in the northern Atlantic. Won't happen, but it's fun to imagine it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)We're going back to Bush policies on steroids, not good enough for ya? They turned out so swell last time, huh?
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)he does permanent damage to the GOP.