https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/whats-the-matter-with-republicans.html?_r=0
On Wednesday, Paul Ryan held a press conference just after the revelation that Donald Trump had pushed James Comey to kill the investigation into Michael Flynn you know, the guy Trump appointed as national security adviser even though his team knew that Flynns highly suspicious foreign ties were under investigation.
Faced with questions about the Flynn scandal and the Comey firing, Ryan waved them away: I dont worry about things that are outside my control.
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It has become painfully clear, however, that Republicans have no intention of exercising any real oversight over a president who is obviously emotionally unstable, seems to have cognitive issues and is doing a very good imitation of being an agent of a hostile foreign power.
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And this monolithic structure lavishly supported by a small number of very, very wealthy families rewards, indeed insists on, absolute fealty. Furthermore, the structure has been in place for a long time: It has been 36 years since Reagan was elected, 22 years since the Gingrich takeover of Congress. What this means is that nearly all Republicans in todays Congress are apparatchiks, political creatures with no higher principle beyond party loyalty.