What is eroding trust in Government is this Congress’ inability to do its job. Our forefathers considered the possibility of a corrupt chief executive, and accordingly, set up a system of checks and balances. But this only works if each branch takes its responsibilities seriously. Perhaps they didn’t foresee we’d have such a corrupt and weaselly Congress, led by weasels in chief, McConnell and Ryan.
Absolutely no excuse, at this point, for not having a special prosecutor.
Oh goody, I can’t wait to see how Joe Kernen and the rest of the GOP shills spin this on CNBC tomorrow morning. Breakfast of Popcorn. Kerrageous Kernen might take a mental health day.
Who is Donald Trump fronting for? Follow the money, the loans he took and was not permitted to pay back, because he was more useful as the public face of his new silent partners.
Just out of curiosity, Senator, who might be in position to rein in an out-of-control president? Hmm, I’m certain the Founders would have addressed that possibility, but it slips my mind at the moment who it might be. Let me go back and reread the Federalist Papers and the Constitution. I’m sure I’ll find something there about the balance of powers and what to do about a tyrannical president…
Didn’t take it that way, no worries, and plenty of sensible people here trust the sources and took it seriously. It’s hard to be a patient patriot these days.
Sasse is on team erosion. He can’t simultaneously belong to the group and pretend to be against the group.
It is his very being that aided this calamity to happen along the way. It may comfort him to pretend that he’s appalled at this point but the realization that he is a part of the enabling that allowed it would gut him.
So he plays limbo boy that just can’t really figure it all out.
He was perfectly happy with the last 8 years of his Party’s performance and their actions that got this goon into the President’s seat is what he’s saying because he can only see Trounce’s bad and nothing else.
I’m not coming out flat-footed and saying he’s animated by any particular inner nobility. It might well be more a case of niche marketing, positioning himself as The Guy Who Told You So. I think he looks in the mirror and sees a potential president and doesn’t want to blow it talking in a mealy-mouthed, equivocal way about a person we all know is the biggest con-man in history. He’s more protective of his brand than that. He might be an idealistic Eagle Scout type for real but I don’t know that. I just think his plan is to be one of the few GOPers able to stand tall amid the wreckage. Without caring enough to look into it I’m guessing he’s got a personal following strong enough he doesn’t have to kiss Trump’s ass. Kasich the same—he’s staying well clear of the blast zone. Neither of them are stupid.
This poll shows at least 23% of the country is so in the tank for the Trump GOP that their shitburger “health care” plan could require all sick to be converted into soylent green and they would still approve.
It should be patently obvious and plain to see by all where this shitshow is going, yet Sasse is one of the few GOPers who realizes and sees the carnage ahead. The others are just hanging onto hope that the gerrymandering/voter suppression efforts hold, that it’ll be someone else’s head in the basket, and/or that Democratic voters are stupid enough to repeat last year’s temper tantrum. Sasse seems hip to the fact that it’s every person for themselves and the only thing that will save anyone is the distance they created between themselves and PP.
Keep going Senator…state the next obvious progression to your beliefs:
Trump is accomplishing the exact mission that Putin and the Russians designed for bringing down the US Superpower!
Anyone who thinks they love Putin and Russia because they want global white nationalism are ignoramuses. Putin wants one thing: recreate the Communist USSR and to do that he needs to weaken the US and especially our leadership in Diplomacy via the Dept. of State which was (before Trump and Tillerson) one of our greatest strengths. Trump is killing the US position in the world and destroying the lives of the middle class, working poor, seniors, and foot soldier veterans!
I hear you and definitely don’t regard you as naive in any way.
But getting plenty frustrated at mealy-mouthed words like “troubling” or “disappointed” or even “erosion of trust in government”, as if he plays no role and has no power to actually do something about it. Just looking for action and not words.
I had never heard of him but after one session at the hearing it was obvious that he was far from being the typical Republican office holder. Way to thoughtful and intelligent to hang out with most of these clowns.
