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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Let Trump Get Away With It
July 25, 2017 at 9:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
First Read: In the last 24 hours, President Trump has publicly attacked his attorney general and acting FBI director, politicized the major Boy Scout gathering, and engaged in outlandish and factually inaccurate rhetoric (Obamacare is death!) And heres the thing: Hes getting away with it, particularly with members of his own party.
Where are the GOP Senate demands that he cant fire his attorney general (who happens to be one of their former colleagues), because its an affront to an independent judiciary? Where are the Republican criticisms that he shouldnt inject politics into the Boy Scouts? And where are GOP calls to cool it on the health care rhetoric, no matter your position on Obamacare? None of what we saw in the last 24 hours is normal, especially if youre the party of character and values. And it all comes before todays big health care vote.
Plenty of GOP senators and House members love to privately complain about Trumps behavior and they even publicly chastise him. But theyve never punished him for his behavior; hes never faced a consequence for it. Its somewhat surprising that there isnt one GOP senator (let alone a dozen) who decide his treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions is enough for them to not vote on health care. And yet, crickets
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Republicans Let Trump Get Away With It (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2017
OP
i see little if any blowback on the insanity projected by the 'president' shame on all who stand by.
spanone
Jul 2017
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Zoonart
(11,878 posts)1. The Democrats let him get away with it too.
Where is the outrage?
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)2. Life is just a TV show to Americans now
You don't react to TV shows, you just lie there, letting it wash all over you...
spanone
(135,873 posts)3. i see little if any blowback on the insanity projected by the 'president' shame on all who stand by.
global1
(25,270 posts)4. That Is Why In 2018 and 2020 We/The Dems Need To Run The Campaign Against The Repugs.....
we can't be drawn down the path to only take on Trump. The Repugs are responsible for Trump getting to where he is and are responsible for his actions now as president. We have to hold them responsible - for that - but even more so we need to hold them responsible for the environment, immigration, healthcare, tax reform, infrastructure, jobs, etc.
moondust
(20,006 posts)5. A party so depraved
is a goner IMO. I'm not convinced they can ever regain enough moral character to qualify them for a public leadership role. Toss them on history's trash heap.