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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,033 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2019, 02:55 PM Mar 2019

Milbank: Unless we save Principled Republican, all is lost

Researchers in the Galapagos Islands last month discovered, alive, a giant tortoise of a species long feared to be extinct.

The return of the Fernandina giant tortoise, last seen in 1906, gives hope that another species, also thought extinct, might yet reemerge.

I speak, of course, of the Principled Republican. The last sighting in the wild of this noble breed was in 2016.

Hopes were kindled Thursday when Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, voicing concern about the “dangerous precedent” of President Trump claiming emergency power to subvert Congress, suggested Trump reconsider. Alexander could become the decisive fourth Senate Republican to oppose Trump’s power grab, guaranteeing the Senate joins the House in rejecting it.

Privately, most Republicans think Trump’s action reckless, but Alexander can say so publicly because he is retiring. If Republicans did not fear Trump, they would undoubtedly side with 31 retired GOP colleagues who pleaded with them in an open letter this week not to sacrifice the Constitution “on the altar of expediency.”

If heeding conscience, Republicans would have enough votes not just to reject Trump’s transgression but to override Trump’s veto. More likely, they will again retreat, more concerned about reelection than righteousness. Surely they know Trump’s actions are wrong: They called President Barack Obama a tyrant for his immigration executive action in 2014, and Obama’s policy, unlike this one, had support; in a Republican-controlled Congress.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/milbank-unless-we-save-principled-republican-all-is-lost/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=4f44963ec7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-4f44963ec7-228635337

If there is such a thing as a principled Republican they need to save themselves.

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Milbank: Unless we save Principled Republican, all is lost (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP

Republicanus principalis still exists, but only in pundit and talking head sanctuaries marylandblue Mar 2019 #1

people of principle, who see their party jump the shark, abandon it and start a new one. unblock Mar 2019 #2

If there's only one left, who's he going to mate with to save the species? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #3

I'd prefer Republicans go extinct ... GeorgeGist Mar 2019 #4

Principled Republicans are extinct TheRealNorth Mar 2019 #5

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

1. Republicanus principalis still exists, but only in pundit and talking head sanctuaries

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:05 PM

Mar 2019

They appear to have died out in their original habitat inside the Beltway. The last one was hunted down and shot by a gun nut in 2009.

unblock

(52,253 posts)

2. people of principle, who see their party jump the shark, abandon it and start a new one.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 03:06 PM

Mar 2019

the republican party fully deserves to go the way of the dodo. the lesson they learned from nixon is to double down on the lies and the crimes and the evil, and they've been steadily marching into the abyss ever since.

any people of "principle" who can't find what they're looking for in the democratic party should abandon the republican party and form a new one. the republican party has permanently subordinated whatever principles it had to self-promotion and self-preservation, which it plainly values far more than abiding by any code of principle, law, ethics, or morality.