Interesting Times
You could literally hear the sigh of relief coming from the GOP tonight.
The Republicans now feel they’re off the hook. They knew that Idiot Boy was unfit for office, and was eroding their chances of holding onto to their individual seats – and more importantly, control of congress – in 2018.
The writing was on the wall in letters SIX MILES HIGH. With approval numbers in the mid-30s only four months into his so-called presidency, it didn’t take a genius to figure out what those numbers could possibly be - and most probably would be after almost two years of this disaster of an administration.
Their biggest obstacle was the hardcore Trump voters. They couldn’t afford to alienate them by turning on Trump and removing him. But at the same time, they couldn’t allow the loose cannon in the WH to cost them their credibility as a party – credibility that was being eroded daily by having to defend his inane rantings, his bizarre behaviour, his clear flaunting of the law, and his efforts to shut down any investigations into his Russian ties.
And then there’s the building evidence that Trump & Co is as guilty of collusion with the Russians as many of us suspected all along. With the Comey firing, his memos about Trump asking him to drop the investigation, and the fact that Idiot Boy shared classified information – with the very people he’s under investigation for colluding with – the GOP were between a rock and a hard place.
For the Republicans, the appointment of Mueller was a flashing EXIT sign – a way out. They can now tell their base that “this is out of their hands”, that they didn’t lift a finger to undermine Trump, that they never wavered in their support of their hero.
The story – the more interesting story, IMHO – is yet to unfold. That story will be how the Republican party tries to spin their nomination, support, election, and defense of the traitor that they themselves put in the Oval Office.
As of today, we already KNOW a lot of damning evidence against Trump and his cohorts. Imagine how much more we’ll know by next November.
That’s when the Republicans will find themselves back in that rock-and-a-hard-place scenario – stand behind an under-investigation president with zero credibility OR distance themselves from a man many in their base think of as a martyr being persecuted by those damned libruls.
Time will tell – and we do indeed live in interesting times.
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