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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWP: This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them
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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 doesnt 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
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 doesnt 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
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)1. It is not a crisis for Republicans
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.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)2. Pictured: Republican spokesperson
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)3. Appropriate. nt
Iggo
(47,486 posts)4. "...the American people voted for Hillary Clinton."
There.
Fixed.