Toomey's timid and tepid response when asked about Comey:

[femmocrat]

Usually the first answer is the most revealing answer. Take Sen. Pat Toomey. In the first, frenetic hours after the shocking news that President Trump had fired the FBI director whose agents were investigating his campaign, Pennsylvania's Toomey was one of handful of prominent Republicans who seemed to suddenly vanish into the bushes, just like that Homer Simpson GIF you're always seeing online.

Then the Washington correspondent for the Allentown Morning Call spotted Toomey on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning and asked for his reaction to Jim Comey's abrupt firing, which has triggered the nation's worst constitutional crisis since the boozy nights when Richard Nixon was talking to the White House portraits.

"I've got nothing for you right now," responded Toomey -- although in fairness it wasn't clear if that was his answer on the Comey mess or if he was trying out a new slogan for his 2022 re-election campaign. In fact, I'm pretty sure the phrase is etched somewhere on the Toomey family coat of arms: Ego nunc habeo quod pro vobis.

As the day wore on and the Comey fallout continued to drown out all other news (including the arrest of a journalist for simply trying to ask a question of a Trump Cabinet secretary), the GOP senator and his staff realized that something was maybe better than nothing. In a statement, Toomey said he's long harbored doubts about Comey as FBI chief but "the timing of his dismissal was unfortunate."

More at link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/America-is-on-fire-Toomey-thinks-the-timing-is-unfortunate.html

[Marie Marie]

1. Toomey sucks!

As right wing as they come.

[romana]

2. Ugh

What an embarrassment. I can't believe we're stuck with this corrupt gasbag until 2022.

[blue neen]

3. Toomey probably wouldn't have won, had it not been for the Russian interference.

Living with guilt 24/7 is a terrible burden, isn't it, Mr Toomey?