Republicans Take Control Facing Internal Tensions

[Charlie Brown]

This was locked in LBN. Not sure why; it's a decent article.

Source: Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—The capital’s all-Republican leadership takes power this month with many common goals—but with different time frames and political constraints that suggest they may not always be in sync.

During his campaign, Mr. Trump called for $1 trillion worth of new infrastructure construction, generally relying on private financing, which industry experts say is likely to fall far short of funding it.

Republicans in both chambers also are treading cautiously to avoid Mr. Trump’s Twitter-directed ire when they disagree with him on economic and foreign policy.

“We’re in a ‘two scorpions in a bottle’ phase,” said Stewart Verdery, the founder of lobbying and public-affairs firm Monument Policy Group and a former Senate Republican aide. “They know they have to coexist, and if they attack each other, they’re both going to die.”

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-take-control-facing-internal-tensions-1483272004

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They will be arguing over which minority group to harm first, which life saving program

to destroy first.

I am very curious what joe sixpack, middle class republican white voter says when they take his medicare and social security.

Damn curious.

[cilla4progress]

2. Still waiting for them to dissemble

As Nicole Wallace predicted pre-election.

Hopefully, the longer we wait the bigger the fall.

[Takket]

3. comparing the GOP to scorpions reminds me of this.........

This is a clip from the TV show Star Trek Voyager. In this scene, Captain Janeway (the female) has just announced she is going to work with one of Voyager's mortal enemies (the Borg) to defeat an even greater enemy known only as "species 8472". Her First officer, Chakotay, confronts her in private. Warning that the Borg will eventually betray Voyager, even if it means their own destruction, because it simply is in their nature. He tell her a story he was told as a child about a scorpion and a fox to illustrate this.

Such is life with the GOP. They will kill us or kill their own, no matter how helpful we/they might be, because they simply cannot help their vile sociopathic nature.

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[0rganism]

4. tensions? like over how much to destroy and how fast?

they may have some tensions but the suspense is felt elsewhere