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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT Charles Blow "Search Your Souls (What's Left of Them), Republicans"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/opinion/trump-republicans-congress-integrity.htmlHow many people from Donald Trumps campaign and inner circle have to confess to crimes or be convicted of them before it is clear to everyone Republicans especially that the campaign was guided by criminals, if not was a criminal enterprise itself?
Tuesdays conviction of former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and guilty plea by the presidents former lawyer Michael Cohen provided the utmost amplification of this reality. But it was Cohens implication of Trump in a felonious conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws that kicks the national crisis through which we are suffering up another level.
This accusation cries out for a congressional inquiry, and not the sham, partisan, joke investigation that the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee conducted into Russian meddling. We need to know if the president broke the law and did so for his own benefit to influence the election.
But that would require some sense of courage and patriotism among Republicans in Congress, and those qualities have been severely lacking.
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This is one of those moments for Republicans. In this moment they have to separate career goals and personal ambitions for the high requirement to properly serve the country and protect its Constitution.
Up to this point, these Republicans have failed miserably. In a few months, many will likely be shown the door in the midterms. Democrats will likely take control of the House and thus will likely conduct investigations. But Republicans now have a window to stand up before they are voted down to say to history that they may have failed so far, but they came around in the end.
They have this moment to snatch a bit of honor from the ashes of what was their party. Republicans, wont you seize this moment?
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NYT Charles Blow "Search Your Souls (What's Left of Them), Republicans" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2018
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(11,653 posts)1. RubleCons respecting the Constitution?
This is satire, right?
lapfog_1
(29,215 posts)2. the only souls they have left are owned by Putin - n/t