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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1298733
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Has “show” us?
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And here I was gonna be the grammar nanny.
I’ll show myself out (walks away…kicks stone)
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More than 150 years before Harry Truman declared that “the buck stops here,” Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist Papers that, unlike the British king, the American president would be “personally responsible for his behavior in office.”
And yet the party of personal responsibility has said exactly squat when THEIR president states that “I Take No Responsibility”.
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Chris Edelson is an assistant government professor at American University.
Our constitutional system depends on accountability.
Chris, I hear your cri de coeur but, honestly, don’t you think the Republican Party and Republican voters generally are too far gone to hear our Hamiltonian and Madisonian appeals?
When was the last time accountability ever really mattered to them, apart from when they pretend to chastise Democrats?
There should be calls for more Republicans and conservatives to stand up for Americans against the danger Trump poses
Certainly there should be more calls, I agree.
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As if. Pelosi values keeping the ammo dry above all, Schumer values being liked, and Repubs value their own power, and nothing meaningful will happen along any of these lines. You may as well be advising a cow to not moo. The election is our best and only hope, period.
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Well, there is “grammar” and then there is “alternate grammar.” (h/t KAC)
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I’m glad that you shown a light on that mistake.
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Trumpski did not bungle the response to this pandemic; he dismantled the response that was already in place. More realistically he welcomed a recognized threat to the United States. And now that it has had a few months to circulate amongst our communities, he will continue to do everything wrong while refusing to let knowledgeable people do their job. “Only I, alone, can fix it.”
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At today’s 12 PM coronavirus task force press conference I think the group of correspondents, as a whole, should collaborate on a list of provable recent lies from Trump at the most recent task force press conferences. With the list in hand, one, or any of the group should use their opportunity to state that they are asking their question as a representative of the group; read the list of lies to the president and ask him succinctly why he is lying all the time. Don’t use any other word but lying.
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The rallying cry for the entire D field, and all voters, should be Republicans have failed us on every count. Demolish the party and start again. Vote Blue Now and re-examine your life choices going forward.
No need to mention Chump, in fact he is such a lost cause you need to hang this all on Republicans. Don’t waste any breath or advertising dollars bringing him up, or letting people derail the conversation by bickering about him.
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That, or just completely disregard Dotard, and ask those questions to everyone else. Donnie will have (another) meltdown.
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And more importantly, there should be more Republicans and conservatives answering the numerous calls that have already been made.
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Exactly. Sideline him as a topic. Ignore him as a leader.
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Yes, that was exactly my question to the author: Will the Republican Party, or its voters, respond?
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I figured there had to be a reason Trump was dragging his feet.
Some of the president’s advisers have privately said that they share the longstanding opposition of conservatives to government intervention and oppose using the law, and the president again signaled his own ambivalence about it.
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As reported cases of the virus in the United States have soared, Mr. Trump, who is known to recruit input from a variety of outside advisers, has been getting conflicting advice. The proliferating number of private sector voices with direct access to the president and his top advisers — notably his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner — has resulted in a chaotic process.The president’s advisers say they see the role of the federal government as a facilitator, as opposed to the chief producer or a national governor. They have tried to encourage states to get by with what they can, suggesting there will be support from the federal government but that this should not be the first option.
Conservatives are going to kill us all.
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As soon as the Coronavirus pandemic is under some control, the House should conduct hearings into how the Trump regime helped make it much worse.
Trump’s sycophants will scream bloody murder, but who cares what these lying cultists say?
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In related news, Trump welcomed Russian espionage to help him politically in 2016 and wants their help again. He also ended — this week, no less — a vital counterterrorism task force.
If he were an actual foreign spy, could Trump cause any more harm to our country?
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The Ds need to do a series of commercials showing how well the GOP tax cuts have served the Republican rubes. Getting some of those real tRump rubes to discuss how they made it through the corona virus non-crisis because of all that extra cash they now have in their pockets
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