zsomething wrote:
I know Republicans are into "team sports" politics and wanted their turn at having a president, but sheesh, this is too much. I don't care how partisan anyone is, they can't back this up anymore, it's ridiculous and it's making us look like a joke to the rest of the world. We've become the Country That Elected A Cartoon. Nobody knows how to deal with this toddler because they're expecting a statesman and instead they're getting a bloated ego that expects pampering first and international business as an afterthought.
Even while launching missiles, Trump's more interested in what kind of cake they were eating. That's where his mind's at. He just wants to be president -- he doesn't know the job, and he doesn't care about it.
Most likely he told the Russians this info just to impress them that he gets to know secret things.
The media in this country need to come out of denial and quit pretending this is in any way normal. A lot of people still aren't accepting the situation because it seems so unthinkable it's surreal, but this cannot continue. Somebody's got to have this doofus removed for incompetence. I know that then we'll get Pence, and I hate him, too, because he's a crazy theocrat, but at least maybe he'd manage to keep the country functioning like a computer on safe-mode until we can vote him out.
As the midterm elections approach and public dismay at Trump's dementia grows, I think more and more Republicans are going to start putting distance between themselves and the President.
Just this morning, McConnell threw some shade:
“I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda...” McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview Tuesday morning with Bloomberg TV.http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-mitch-mcconnell-drama-white-house-238438
Corker pretty much did the same thing yesterday:
"Obviously they're in a downward spiral right now," said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, "and they've got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening."http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gop-sen-bob-corker-trump-white-house-downward-spiral-article-1.3168934
During Watergate, when Nixon was losing it--walking around the White House talking to paintings and asking Kissinger to get down on his knees and pray with him--the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an order for all US forces to check with them before carrying out any of Nixon's commands.
I think the same thing will start happening to Trump--there will be a "silent coup" of his primary cabinet members to isolate him from any real control.
Our institutions are wonderfully robust, our Founding Fathers were possessed of almost prescient genius and this will all work out to the lasting benefit of progressives. Remember, after Republican klepto-parasitic politics plunged us into the abyss of the Great Depression, Democrats changed the face of American life. FDR was able to create Social Security, institute Fair Employment Practices and establish a National Minimum Wage among many other progressive accomplishments.
Trump will be increasingly marginalized and in 2018 there will probably be the beginnings of a sea-change in national politics--IF Democrats allow him to remain in office. If he gets impeached or resigns, all bets are off.
If we want things to get better, we're gonna have to let them to get worse, maybe much worse, first.
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