Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

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A Trump criminal probe in Georgia expands to include Sen. Lindsey Graham
A Georgia district attorney is investigating whether Graham violated state law in a call with an elections official.

https://www.vox.com/2021/2/13/222816...lindsey-graham

Excellent. Lindsey is even more corrupt than Moscow Mitch.

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Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party?
By George F. Will

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...874_story.html

The first of this century’s national traumas is denoted by two numbers: 9/11. One purpose of, and a sufficient justification for, the second impeachment of the 45th president was to inscribe this century’s second trauma in the nation’s memory as: 1/6.

Although not nearly as tragic as 9/11 in lives lost and radiating policy consequences, 1/6 should become, as its implications percolate into the national consciousness, even more unsettling. Long before 9/11, Americans knew that foreign fanaticisms were perennial dangers. After 1/6, Americans know what their Constitution’s Framers knew: In any democracy, domestic fanaticisms always are, potentially, rank weeds that flourish when fertilized by persons who are as unscrupulous as they are prominent.

The Framers are, to the 45th president, mere rumors. They, however, knew him, as a type — a practitioner of what Alexander Hamilton (in Federalist 68) disdainfully called “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity.” Post-1/6 America has a quickened appreciation of how those “little arts,” when magnified by modern modes of mass communication as wielded by occupants of the swollen modern presidency, make civilization’s brittle crust crumble.

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An essential conservative insight about everything is that nothing necessarily endures. Care must be taken. The Republican Party will wither if the ascendant Lout Caucus is the face it presents to this nation of decent, congenial people.

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Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump for Them

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021...-for-them.html

Republicans in Congress may not want to anger their base by voting openly to disqualify Trump from office. But they very obviously wish for Trump to be disqualified by somebody else. The pointed gestures toward the courts by McConnell and his allies are a clear signal that those judges shouldn’t extend to Trump any special protection.

Judges don’t think exactly like elected officials do, of course. But they don’t think completely unlike them. The motivation of jurists is a mysterious elixir of legal principle and political calculation. Their reasoning needs to make some sense, but the bar of “reasonable” tends to be much lower to reach a favorable ruling for their team.

Republicans are going out of their way to tell the courts that they don’t see Trump as a member of their team. Will nobody rid them of this turbulent Florida man?

Lock him up!

[Pio1980]

Perspective ca 2016:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...college-213777

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Reason10

Huffington Post is nothing more than a left wing opinion rag. It has zero credibility.


If you want to paint a true picture of the national GOP, just draw a picture of a circular firing squad.

Sadly I take no joy in you being proof that I was all too prescient back in 2013 when I started this thread.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by icenine

Sadly I take no joy in you being proof that I was all too prescient back in 2013 when I started this thread.

A shining example of the effects of the GOP long con.

[donquixote99]

You've seen comparisons of objective measures of corruption, Democrat vs Republican before. But these guys really did their homework, and show their work.

They found 38 TIMES more convictions on the Republican side, and that's starting with Kennedy!

https://rantt.com/gop-admins-had-38-...rats-1961-2016

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

You've seen comparisons of objective measures of corruption, Democrat vs Republican before. But these guys really did their homework, and show their work.

They found 38 TIMES more convictions on the Republican side, and that's starting with Kennedy!

https://rantt.com/gop-admins-had-38-...rats-1961-2016

But but but, whatabout whatabout whatabout "crooked Hillary"??

[Pio1980]

Toomey not sent "to do the right thing".
This is the state of the Trumplican party.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...atever-he-said

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Toomey not sent "to do the right thing".
This is the state of the Trumplican party.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...atever-he-said

The Repub party in general isn't interested in doing the right thing. Party before country ya' know.