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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 06:06 PM May 2017

WP: This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them

Great article, and well worth the click.

This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them

I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.

When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback, but I reassured myself with this thought: President Richard Nixon never did that.

I know history.

This is clearly not the end of the world. That would be more clearly labeled and would be brought about by the other party. And the weather would be more ominous. Ravens would squawk, and the sky would turn red. It would not occur on a Tuesday when I had made other plans.

Okay, the firing of FBI Director James Comey looked bad. And when the president stunned him, pierced him with his fangs, wrapped him in a thick cocoon of impenetrable webbing and left him to hang there for days, that timing was also poor. It doesn’t seem as though it was what the FBI wanted or what the deputy attorney general wanted, either. But the American people voted for change! And the president is not Nixon. Nixon fired people on a Saturday, whereas this happened on a Tuesday.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/05/12/this-is-not-a-crisis-republicans-say-as-a-large-spider-slowly-devours-them/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.f1472541578d
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WP: This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them (Original Post) MelissaB May 2017 OP
It is not a crisis for Republicans Jarqui May 2017 #1
Pictured: Republican spokesperson JNelson6563 May 2017 #2
Appropriate. nt Blue_true May 2017 #3
"...the American people voted for Hillary Clinton." Iggo May 2017 #4

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
1. It is not a crisis for Republicans
Fri May 12, 2017, 06:16 PM
May 2017

because they now control and own Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, Trump served up a slam dunk case of obstruction of justice against himself.

The Dems would love to impeach but cannot without the GOP.

So Donny boy has to do the bidding of Mitch McConnell or he's out.

President McConnell is probably closer to where we are at these days.

Putin is in there somewhere and somehow.

But Trump is now just a puppet of the US Senate. I suspect a lot of Republicans won't have a big problem with that.

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