Corkers Blast at Trump Has Other Republicans Nodding in Agreement

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WASHINGTON — For nearly nine months, Senate Republicans have watched their new president with a mix of aggravation and alarm. But it took Senator Bob Corker to take those concerns public and confront President Trump with his most serious challenge from within his own party.

In unloading on Mr. Trump, Mr. Corker, a two-term senator from Tennessee, said in public what many of his Republican colleagues say in private — that the president is dangerously erratic and unstable, that he treats his high post like a television show and that he is reckless enough to stumble the country into a nuclear war.

Mr. Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, evidently feels liberated now that he has decided not to run for re-election, while other Republican senators with concerns keep quiet fearing the retaliation of a Twitter-armed president and his allies in the conservative media. But Mr. Corker’s passionate statements reflect growing troubles for a president attempting to govern with a narrow and increasingly disenchanted Republican majority.

The president has already seen what can happen with a 52-vote Senate caucus that can be thwarted by the defection of just three Republicans. Until now, Mr. Corker has not been one of the renegades on those high-drama votes that killed Mr. Trump’s health care legislation. By himself, Mr. Corker could make it that much harder for the president to hold a fragile majority on upcoming votes on taxes, among other priorities — and if he emboldens other Republican doubters, it could add to Mr. Trump’s challenge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/corkers-blast-at-trump-has-other-republicans-nodding-in-agreement.html

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1. They need to stop nodding in agreement

and f*cking do something about the Orange Menace!

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2. Lily-livered bastards won't move to impeach, though.

Psss psss psss psss psss! Meow meow!

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3. Gee, mr corker

We tried to warn all of your asses. You made him, deal with him. If not fuck off you shit for brains.

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4. "Nodding in agreement" and DOING nothing.

Just like "thoughts and prayers" for gun massacres.

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5. None of the other Republicans could possibly do anything

Do you know that President Trump might tweet something mean at them, and then what would they do? It's enough to give one the vapors!

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6. A small handful could convince Trump to resign this week

It does not require a majority of the House and 2/3 of the Senate. It does not require the 25th Amendment. A simple ultimatum.

How? Tell Trump that if he does not resign, they will vote with Democrats to force the release of his tax returns. Do that (and be willing to follow through) and it's Game Over whether he resigns or not.

The fact that they have not even tried tells you a great deal about the state of the GOP. Even the ones who "Speak out" are not willing to act.