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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles P. Pierce: The Republicans in Congress Are a Bunch of Pathetic Cowards
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34563503/republicans-congress-cowards-trump-undermine-election/The Republicans in Congress Are a Bunch of Pathetic Cowards
Even now, as the president attacks the legitimacy of our elections, they will only whisper their opposition anonymously.
By Charles P. Pierce
Nov 3, 2020
Ah, one last ensemble bleat from the chorus of scabied sheep in the Congress, and Politico was there to hear it.
But most Republicans, from critics to allies of Trump, have remained publicly silent. Its not new for Trumps party brethren to duck and cover when he says something troubling. But after five years of perfecting the art of explaining how they didnt see the tweet the much parodied talking point to which Republicans on Capitol Hill often resort it is shocking but not surprising that they arent speaking up now, even when the integrity of Americas electoral system is under attack by their partys leader.
Christamighty, what a passel of poltroons. What can he possibly do to them now? His threats have been largely empty ones ever since the 2018 midterms handed Nancy Pelosi the big gavel again. They have to know this. But this apparently now is a line on every resume belonging to every ambitious Republican conservative: "Privately Opposed President, 2016-2020."
... Many Republicans insist they are disgusted by Trumps threats, they just arent willing to say so publicly. Dozens of quietly anti-Trump members on Capitol Hill, or who left the Trump administration, usually in disgust, are willing to torch the president but only under the cloak of anonymity. Its despicable and un-American but not surprising, said one senior Senate GOP aide. They have never had any respect for the institutions of democracy that dont benefit them. The beauty of federalism is that we leave it to the states to make their own rules and the idea that a president would overturn a state officials decision to benefit them in an election is just kind of the antithesis of what Republicans used to believe in. He added, Its just one final F.U. to what Republicans used to believe in."
Don't worry. I have a feeling that the entire country has at least one more of those handy.
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Charles P. Pierce: The Republicans in Congress Are a Bunch of Pathetic Cowards (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2020
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SharonClark
(10,005 posts)1. Kicking for "scabied sheep".
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)2. They Fear Their Own Primary Electorate, Ma'am
Of course, by now, catering to those loons can crater you in the general election, but they can't even advance to being beaten there unless they can clear the primary hurdle....
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)4. Yes, they broke it, they own it.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Yes. They're pathetic. n/t
-Laelth
lastlib
(22,978 posts)5. In other news, water is wet, and the sky is blue.
...and Jimmy Hoffa is dead.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)6. If you oppose something silently and invisibly
you really didnt oppose it all. At best you quit and thereby appeased it. Or you stayed and voted along with it and supported it.
One or two safe no votes counts as supporting it in my book.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)7. Yes, yes they are. nt