McConnell Doubts Trump Can Save Presidency

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/08/22/mcconnell-doubts-trump-can-save-presidency/

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“The relationship between President Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises,” the New York Times reports.

“What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility… Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.”

“The rupture between Mr. Trump and Mr. McConnell comes at a highly perilous moment for Republicans, who face a number of urgent deadlines when they return to Washington next month. Congress must approve new spending measures and raise the statutory limit on government borrowing within weeks of reconvening, and Republicans are hoping to push through an elaborate rewrite of the federal tax code. There is scant room for legislative error on any front.”

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[kentuck]

1. A battle royal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. ...

[OldHippieChick]

3. We can hope

I think

It's hard to know what to think anymore as I am having a difficult time figuring out what side I should be on in the Repuke war. They all disgust and scare me.

[bearsfootball516]

4. I feel the exact same way

And there answer is: You can't really support either side. Trying to decide if you should support Trump or McConnell is like trying to decide if you should cut off your arm or your leg.

Our best option is to hope this resentment and hate between them boils over so much to the point that nothing gets accomplished and they take each other down in a heap of flames.

[applegrove]

7. Yes. There is no good GOP faction. When new GOP factions arise they seem even

more toxic.

[NNadir]

5. Two racist bottom feeders competing for the same slime at the bottom of a polluted lake.

Couldn't possibly be sweeter.

[3catwoman3]

6. Ain't that a shame.

[steve2470]

8. if I wasn't a bit nervous about Trump having access to the nuclear button....

I'd be screaming for 3.5 more years of this! Huge landslide in 2020 for us! Hopefully 2018 will be a landslide also and give us back the House and Senate.

If he resigned tomorrow, yea we'd have RW arsehole Pence but at least I wouldn't be worried about a temper-tantrum-via-nuclear-holocaust.