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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJennifer Rubin: Trump's "Pressuring & Firing The FBI Director Must Be Impeachable, If Not Criminal"
Trumps tapes tweet is too much. Hasnt the GOP had enough?By Jennifer Rubin May 12 at 10:15 AM
The 2016 election demonstrated that the party once united by political thought (e.g., smaller government, objective truth, respect for tradition, the rule of law) and respect for civic virtue would accept a thoughtless, entirely unscrupulous leader for the sake of holding power. (Sure, hes totally ignorant about the world, but well get the Supreme Court. Well, hes obviously lying about a bunch of issues, but hell sign whatever the House gives him.) En masse, most Republicans including those at some premier publications (which are now unreadable to all but the Trump cultists) declared willingness to defend ignorance, bigotry, dishonesty and ineptitude on the chance that theyd get a top marginal tax rate of 28 percent. The calculation, to those not driven by partisan zeal, seems shockingly small-minded and tribalistic. (At least Hillary Clintons not there to raise taxes!) One marvels at other trades theyd make. (Lose an independent judiciary for sake of a meaningless and offensive travel ban?)
Republican Party identification has begun requiring intellectual vacuity. One has to be free from shame to agree that its no big deal when Trump confesses he fired former FBI director James B. Comey because he decided Russian interference in the election was just a made-up story. A slew of FBI agents is now investigating the made-up story, the entire intelligence community verifies it and members of both parties acknowledge that it occurred. To go along with such utterances means condoning Trumps inability to accept reality (Russia did, in fact, meddle) and refusing to concede that pressuring and then firing the FBI director must be impeachable, if not criminal, conduct. This mind-set forces Trump defenders to say daft things such as: Trump has the right to fire Comey, so whats the problem? Democrats didnt like Comey, anyway. It doesnt matter that he gave a pretextual answer for the firing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/12/trumps-tapes-tweet-is-too-much-hasnt-the-gop-had-enough/?utm_term=.b55ad450ebd0
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Jennifer Rubin: Trump's "Pressuring & Firing The FBI Director Must Be Impeachable, If Not Criminal" (Original Post)
kpete
May 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. Jennifer is apparently unaware of
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triron
(22,002 posts)2. Good question.
tanyev
(42,554 posts)3. They obviously don't care about the constitution, democracy or the country.
But why aren't they worried about their own political futures and their own miserable hides?