BTRTN: Flake News... The Republican Turning of the Screwed.
Born to Run the Numbers on the two weeks that historians may view as the inflection point in the Trump White House:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/08/flake-news-republican-turning-of-screwed.html
Excerpt:
Two months ago, we dismissed the odds of impeachment simply because of the math. Even if articles of impeachment could be squeezed through the House, the odds of reaching the 67 Senators required for conviction seemed remote.
And yet in these short two weeks, we’ve seen Republicans in Congress begin to change their tune.
Perhaps, in their hearts, they realize Jeff Flake’s flake news is actually the real deal: that this President has no overarching political philosophy, vision, or goal other than the veneration and glory of Donald Trump.
Perhaps they are now realizing that the President’s unmitigated fear of and hostility toward the Special Prosecutor is in and of itself an admission of guilt.
Perhaps they are tired of a President who blames and insults them for his own failures of leadership, most notably on the central campaign promise of the Republican 2016 platform.
Perhaps they have finally seen that he is perfectly willing to hang them out to dry for his own ineptitude.
But we sense a sea change, a moment when Republicans in Congress realize that that their leader is fighting a very different battle from the rest of them, particularly as 2017 marches inexorably towards 2018 and the midterm elections. His is a battle for survival, and they are just so much collateral damage.
Call it the turning of the screwed.
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