'I've Had It With This Guy': G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics. Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders.

But within weeks both men backed off an all-out fight with Mr. Trump because they feared retribution from him and his political movement. Their drive to act faded fast as it became clear it would mean difficult votes that would put them at odds with most of their colleagues.

“I didn’t get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, told a friend.

The confidential expressions of outrage from Mr. McCarthy and Mr. McConnell, which have not been previously reported, illustrate the immense gulf between what Republican leaders say privately about Mr. Trump and their public deference to a man whose hold on the party has gone virtually unchallenged for half a decade.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/trump-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy.html

[MiHale]

1. Later their lips were sutured to his a-hole.

[sop]

2. The phrase "to sell one's soul to the devil" was coined for people like McConnell and McCarthy.

[Achilleaze]

3. Whimpy flip-flopping Republican wankers

No guts. No patriotism. No honor.

[Botellos]

4. "privately"

So gutsy

[dchill]

27. Their cowardice is not private.

It's right out in the open - like their tanned bits.

[2naSalit]

5. Political parasites.

[twodogsbarking]

6. They would cut off their balls and wait for the spaceship if Trump told them to.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. And yet, their collective lips are still firmly attached to his fat ass.

Repug=hypocrite.

[dutch777]

8. Sadly, Trump is as close as they get to having a direction. There is no meaningful policy in the GOP

They have lost all ability to come up with anything that solves problems or betters the country. They just want to say NO or start some off the wall bent and rant about "groomers" or other QA fear mongering BS and pass it all off as leadership and governing. And the truly sad thing is, seems like more or less 50% of the country is playing along, regularly. I used to say at any given time 33% of the electorate is off the reservation or otherwise whackadoodle. Clearly, I underestimated.

[wnylib]

11. They are no longer a political party, just a criminal gang,

like their Russian counterparts.

[Rebl2]

16. They are

part of the Russian mafia as far as I am concerned.

[bronxiteforever]

9. The GOP leadership

[The Blue Flower]

10. Remember that old saying

"An honest politician is one who stays bought."

[Septua]

12. McConnell always does what is best for McConnell

In February, Mr. McConnell voted to acquit Mr. Trump even as seven other Senate Republicans joined with Democrats to muster the largest bipartisan vote ever in favor of conviction in a presidential impeachment trial. Anxious not to be seen as surrendering to Mr. Trump, Mr. McConnell went to the Senate floor after the vote to deliver a scorching speech against the former president.

But Mr. McConnell went mostly silent about Mr. Trump after that point. He avoids reporters’ questions about the former president and only rarely speaks about Jan. 6. In a Fox News interview in late February 2021, Mr. McConnell was asked whether he would support Mr. Trump in 2024 if the former president again became the G.O.P. nominee for the presidency.

Mr. McConnell answered: “Absolutely.”

Here'e a long read offering some insight into McConnell's political brainwork. It's all about winning.

https://www.vox.com/2017/1/2/14123496/mitch-mcconnell-motives

[Septua]

14. More on McConnell

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/get-mitch-mcconnell-099376/

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. McConnell is an expert at playing the long game.

It's unfortunate that he is such an evil scumbag because he is pretty savvy, politically.

[Javaman]

13. the human millipede. tfg at the front and turtle and kevin fighting for middle. nt

[niyad]

15. hey, nyt, it is COUP, not "riot". But thanks for reminding us exactly what kind

of gutless cowards and sycophants the turtle and qevin are.

[PatSeg]

17. So an insurrection was the final straw

for these people? For all of five minutes! They should have "had it" with that guy many times over the four years filled with outrage after outrage. Finally, a life threatening overthrow of the government was what it took to say "enough", but these wimps couldn't even sustain that resolve. How can anyone ever trust a word they say?

[bucolic_frolic]

18. A fine display of Republican moral courage

[KS Toronado]

19. So did IQ4.5 simply have to remind McCarthy & McConnell,

of the stuff Jeffery Epstein had on them to get them to kiss his ass again?

[Novara]

28. Ya gotta wonder, right?

[femmedem]

20. MoConnell: "I didn't get to be leader by voting with five people in the conference."

In other words, he didn't get to be a leader by leading, nor does he want to use his current power to lead.

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Psss psss psss psss psss! Meow! Meow!

Spineless fucks.

[keithbvadu2]

22. "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump."

"There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump."

Kevin McCarthy

[Midnight Writer]

23. Now I understand why Tucker Carlson thinks American manliness is in jeopardy.

It's because he hangs out with male Republican politicians.

[smb]

35. Maybe Moscow Mitch Should Try Humping A Tesla Charger Like The Guy In Tuckums' Video nt

[AZProgressive]

24. I'll post this story here instead of starting a new thread

McCarthy denies saying Trump should resign if impeached

A spokesman for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is denying that the leader told GOP colleagues he would recommend former President Trump resign if he was impeached over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, one of many Trump-bashing comments from top Republicans revealed in a forthcoming book.

Top GOP leaders privately bashed Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack to a further extent than previously known, according to a report in The New York Times based on the upcoming book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told advisers on Jan. 11, 2021 that “the Democrats are going to take care of the son of a bitch for us,” referring to impeachment, and also said: “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is,” according to the report.
https://thehill.com/news/house/3275574-mccarthy-denies-saying-trump-should-resign-if-impeached/

[MissMillie]

25. The irony is that if they had collectively rejected TFG

they'd be rid of him by now.


50 Senators and more than 200 Representatives... and too few backbones.

[smb]

36. Yep

The Trumpanzees would have whined and moaned, but they'd fall back into line when reminded that the alternative is letting the Democrats win.

[Martin68]

26. This just makes it that much worse when they came back to Trump, hats in hand, to jump back on

board the Trump bandwagon and doubled down on lies about the attempted coup.

[llashram]

29. terrified hypocrites

but that's the Republikkkan Party now and its millions of fascist followers in its base. The POSFG terrifies them? Why? What does he know about these and other powerful influential rich white men?

[Septua]

30. As has been said by so many pundits to date...

..the so called Republican Party is no NO LONGER a political party. It's just a group of politicians with an 'R' behind their name with a single agenda to be in the majority. They are not for the country's best interests or the voters best interests. Just trying to appease a segment of the population that can't be appeased by a democracy based government.

[Mz Pip]

31. Vowed to drive him from politics?

Sure doesn’t look like it.

McConnell could have voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment. He could have used his power to get others in the GOP to do also. He did squat.

When McConnell saw the hold Trump gad on the base he fell in line with all the rest.

[BlueWavePsych]

33. Kick

[smb]

34. Profiles In Cowardice nt

[Blue Owl]

37. Gold toilet-licking fucks

[samsingh]

38. it seems the cowards and traitors in the gop forgot their revulsion and instead

put their noses deep into the trump and putin asses

[LudwigPastorius]

39. Spineless scumbags...

They have all the ethics and conviction of a soap dish.

That's the way Democracy dies.