To spin it another way, I’m actually now optimistic that if the House GOP stonewalls on investigations for 18 more months on this, they won’t get re-elected.
There’s no sign that the public is behind Trump or his Congressional defenders. Trump’s in Nixon-during-Watergate or Bush-after-Katrina territory already, and it hasn’t even been a month.
Clay is right. It’s going to take seeing some consequences first hand before anyone gets too serious about “dump Trump” in the GOP.
And as @Taniel reminded yesterday on Twitter, in 2009 the Democrats had a string of crushing wins in 2009 special elections. It wasn’t until the 2010 midterms that things were revealed to be headed sideways in the House and Senate.
Which means to say that the Republicans may hold the Georgia 6th. They may do OK in the 2017 Virginia statewides. But If this current mess continues, there could be serious repercussions for the party in 2018.
@HumanTon I hope that you’re right about that, but between gerrymandering, the fact that none but the base-iest of the base vote in primaries and that not many more vote in midterm elections (especially Democratic-leaning demographics) I think that people in the safe R districts will keep voting for Rs if only to keep the “Demoncrats” out.
Sounding like Harward will be the Flynn replacement. Pretty decent choice, from what I’ve been able to read so far. Putting this in the Optimism thread for now, since he’s looking like a big step up from the previous bozo.
From what I’ve read, the major sticking point of him accepting the job offer is in regards to him being able to replace Flynn’s staff. One of the key members was given a personal guarantee from Trump that their job was safe, but Harward wants to bring in his own people.
Basically, Trunp has been trying to get a trademark in Chins for 20 years and kept losing in court. He magically got it the day after agreeing to the one-China policy. That’s the definition of an emoluments clause violation.
That timeline is misleading. The critical event happened in November, just after the election, on November 13. There was a three-month period where someone could object, which just ended.
What are gold Muslim curtains? I don’t even know where people come up with that stuff. Is that lady angry because he hasn’t completely redecorated and it’s reminding her of Obama?
They’re the curtains Muslims use when they’re doing muslimy stuff like giving our uranium to Russia and forging birth certificates that can be used 50 years in the future.