Cracks in The Thin Red Line
Honey, Honey, Honey, when the Texas Republican delegation starts showing cracks, there’s trouble brewing. Republican Congressman Will Hurd from west Texas had himself a big ole Trumpathon on Twitter yesterday.
And this morning’s Houston Chronicle editorial called Trump “Putin’s Puppy,” and ended with …
Trump honed his TV reputation as the boss who is quick to fire people. But Monday in Helsinki, he acted like someone the American people ought to give a pink slip.
This is Texas. And the GOP is cracking.
Kind of late to the party. A lot of us saw this coming 2 years ago.
1The Texas GOP is cracking? Good. I’m sorry it’s in such perilous circumstances, not only for Texas, but for the rest of the world; but if the GOP has cracked in Texas, there’s hope that the cracks will spread.
“There is a crack in everything;
That’s how the light gets in.”
==Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
2It doesn’t mean a thing until we get 3 senators to flip parties, so that Mitch McConnell isn’t setting the agenda. It’ll take a lot more in the house.
3@eyesoars: You are correct but I don’t think we are going to find 3 Republicans who will break with the party.
They will make concerned noises on radio and cable news. They will do nothing.
They will be outraged and distressed. They will do nothing.
They will let Trump do absolutely anything he wants because as long as he is there he will continue to appoint right-wing judges and rubber-stamp the dismantling of the liberal government and all the tax cuts they desire.
The damage will take a decade to repair, but it won’t even be started as long as the White house or either chamber of congress is in the hands of Republicans.
4These sumb!tches, both the Texas Republican variety and the non-Texas variety love being in power FAR more than they love anything else. So for them a Putin sucking president is a mere temporary inconvenience in the over-arching battle to have permanent absolute power. I am not encouraged that Republicans anywhere will do anything to rid America of this President. AND even if they did, Mike Pense is not, im<ho better, except that he may not have a crush on Putin. Pense strikes me as a guy who hasn't been happy with much in America since the end of the Eisenhower administration, maybe even before: Civil Rights, Voting Rights for "minorities" and women, children as punishment of women, but not their male sperm donors, who have sex outside of marriage, and on and on.
I charge that this current Republican party, who control so much of our country's political life, wants these so-called liberal victories rolled back to some point in American history where white men ruled the country and non-white males, children, and women generally were their chattel.
Speaking as a white male with many very important women in my life, not all of whom are/were Caucasian I AM DISGUSTED BY THESE REPUBLICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS and by their supporters. They speak not for me as an American, as a Texan, or as man in all my proudest roles, son, husband, father, grandfather, and all the rest.
Defeating them in an election is not enough. They and their beliefs and positions must be vanquished from the American body politic.
5Hello Texas as a fellow state with the chance to send another Democrat to the Senate, we feel your pain. Perhaps not as much pain as having Teddie Crooze on your state ballot, but we are suffering a few paper cuts as our NV guy Heller has been taken hostage. Again. That photo op of him glad handing with Rudy G at the Kavanaugh announcement scars the psyche. It’s like sending your kid to LA to play for the Lakers (pain), but then even worse he goes “all Hollywood” (bad pain). But when our kid returns from DeeCee after consorting with Donnie and the swamp people, instead of seeking the comfort of his home folks, he runs off to seek solace from his crazy Uncle Shelly Adelson. We’re losing that boy.
Kind words from our NATO allies caveated by a few ifs, all is not lost. If we have a fall election that returns Congress to their senses, our recovery begins. They also opine that we can survive 4 years of Dotard45, marginally. 8 years? We’re toast. Under the circumstances, kind words coming out of the EU.
6Micr, considering the “head” of the snacilbupeR is *itch McConnell and the poisonous tail of the collective snake is Mikey Dense, it’s time to give them an indecent burial. That should include all would be zombie pop ups such as that Kasich disaster out in Ohio.
SMDH If the tongue bath Donnie laid on Putin didn’t destroy your stomach, check out the one Pence laid on Donnie. http://us.pressfrom.com/news/offbeat/-166381-vp-mike-pence-on-putin-summit-trump-s-putting-prosperity-and-security-of-america-first/
Sorry bunch. Donnie’s scared witless by Putin, while all the sycophants are scared witless by Donnie. Makes a man wonder what more can be revealed about any of them that we don’t already know.
7Keep tellin’ us all the truth berween perms, dye jobs and comb outs, sweet-thing. Love to hear what you got say! Are any of those Texas folk in Congress, ready to impeach the orange gum drop yet? He aint helpin’ things ya now? Catch yo later, darlin’!
8I am almost pleasantly surprised at the number of media outlets that are turning on the Golden Gibbon. Lets just see if they stick with it. As far as I am concerned, the GG’s treason is publicly established. I also have feeling that Mueller is about to name names very close to Trump, not just Donnie Jr, Manafort and Poppawhatever plus noting exactly what they did to earn their prison terms.
9Rep. Hurd,
Perhaps since you have had a night to sleep on it, you may want to re think your tweet….
Never in my life would I have thought the POTUS of US would commit treason.
To our allies, we will fix the problem and impeach Trump. I pledge to work with my Democratic friends to remedy the wrongs Trump has inflicted on the world.
There. Fixed it for you. You’re welcome
10maggie, notable history revisionist and killer misogynist Joke Scarborough is leading the pack doing back flips to erase all memory of their complicity in 2016. Joke had the nerve to reference one of his interviews with Donnie from 2015 as ‘evidence’ he challenged Donnie early in the game despite MSNBC having file rooms of footage of he and Mika Mouse preening over Donnie. It will take more than this week for some in the media to regain their self respect. Something on the order of the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up the conglomerates who sign their paychecks. Fox and Sinclair talking heads? Maybe some prison time followed by re-education to learn a trade.
11Hurd is just doing CYA.
12I see a lot of his election time political ads on the local teevee. He has tried to put daylight between himself and SOBOTUS, don’t fall for that.
But he courts the teabaggers and RWNJ’s with enthusiasm, votes for everything Trump and/or Rethug in sight, and uses the word “Democrat” as a pejorative.
Screw him, and the orange elephant he rides with.
As much as I detest the sitting president, imo his actions do not amount to Treason as defined in Article III Section 3. The USofA is not in a state of declared war with Russia, which predicates all actions which amount to Constitutional Treason.
Are these actions “high crimes and misdemeanors”? Beats me. They prolly should be, if they are not.
Should these actions irreparably break the bond between political party and officeholder? Imo HE77 YES. When are the Republicans going to own this presidency and the damage his mischief, his malfeasance causes?
13Micr, if not treason, then treachery. Article III, Section 3 has been rendered moot by a Congress that has failed to exercise its war powers since WWII, post which all would be “wars” are euphemistically conducted as “police actions,” “conflicts,” or some other shady dodge. Looking forward to the legal ‘scholarly’ writings that will come with any attempt to make nice with Kim Jong-Un to “end” a war that was never declared.
Let’s pretend for a quick second that Donnie’s cries of “no collusion” have some validity. Stretch our imaginations that he didn’t know what Dimwit Jr., Kushner, Flynn and Manafort, et. al. were doing with their Putin colleagues during election season. Then we await what Team Mueller makes of Donnie’s defense(s) of the aforementioned the past 500+ long days.
14Although the meeting between Putin & Trump was private, a photo has appeared showing the casual and relaxed nature of the conversation they had:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6e/61/e8/6e61e88e95474bda50febb922def59b7–russia-putin-vladimir-putin.jpg
15A side light is that Beto did himself proud today when, it is reported, that he would/will vote for impeachment when in Senate.
16Glad to see somebody who is more interested in motiviating D’s to get to the polls then running scared of thuglicans who would never vote for him.
Wendy Davis’s cringing surrender to whack jobs on guns didn’t do her any good so maybe Beto learned something from past d failures.
Ultra-highly recommended reading. link below.
SOBOTUS as a Russian asset goes back farther and deeper than most, especially our ‘media’ and ‘news’ realize, or have been willing to allow.
I’ve mentioned here before that I have a very extreme RWNJ bro (estranged for years) who was very enamored of Putin and Russia more than a decade ago. To the degree of taking an extensive visit to Russia with some RW buddies. And all of them completely oblivious to their acquisition of some very friendly middle-aged Russian ‘retired’ ‘former’ military officers very early in the journey. They had their very own personal FSB/GRU case agents along for the ride, no telling what extra nuggets were crammed into their feverish brains. Lots of ‘buddy-buddy’ time.
It took me a long time to get some clues with that.
I’ve long suspected that Trump, his family, and organization were compromised long ago, in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. When he got into major financial trouble, even having to sell off his newly acquired 400′ yacht, the “Trump Princess”, at a huge loss (I never even heard of Trump until relatively recently, when I couldn’t flip the channel off his stupid tv prog fast enough).
I figured out that when the banks and Italian Mafia decided to dump Trump, he then got real cozy with the local Russian Mafia, whose tentacles are far bigger and longer than anybody else’s.
We can hope this all leads to a firing squad for the traitors (IMO).
A long article, but WOW…(maybe somebody here has already referenced it, sry)–
“Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.
By Jonathan Chait”:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
17Sandridge, that story is so scary because it absolutely makes sense! Thanks for sharing – I think.
18@Rick
How big IS Putin’s lap? Cause if Drumpf’s a$$ gets just a bit bigger, it will get its own Zip Code!
19Just have a care that the d’s don’t allow a thuglican to run as a D.
Evidence of this is from alabama 2nd district where a thuglican candinate stated
“Explaining his party switch, Bright told Courthouse News that he ran as a Democrat in the past because the Republican Party had picked a candidate and a conservative wing in the Democratic Party asked him to run.
“I had the label of a ‘D’ in front of my name, but I still served as a conservative,” Bright said. “And that’s what I will do in Washington as a Republican. I will still be that strong conservative that I was before.””
This wa during rahm’s drive to ensure that the dnc and dccc helped make the d’s into a thuglican lite party by recruiting thiglicans as candinates.
So much for the arguement that any thuglican who is willing to run as a d should get more support then a progressive since the numbers are the only thing that count no matter the voting record and betrayal of party agenda by these quislings.
20Hurd isn’t cracking because he disagrees with Trump. Hurd is cracking because he has a serious Democratic opponent that intends to show him the door. These comments are only designed to make him look like he is more of a moderate to folks in his district. Fortunately, they are smarter than that and Hurd won’t be a Rep in 2019.
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