The Domino(e)s are fallinââŚKey to the highway, indeed
This is from last week, but itâs apt:
Is this mostly about not wanting to deal with Bannon and his crew in a primary?
I guess. Not that the General election looked like a walk in the park. Again, there are still choice Wingnut Welfare seats available. âBook early, avoid the rush.â
Interesting heâs serving out his term.
That was a great speech and ought to be read and reread. Sen. Flake quoting Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln has sounded a call to his fellow Senators that the obligations of office include more than being reelected.
My god - what a speech! That was incredible.
Damn, thatâs a long fucking speech. Wouldnât it have been easier to just list the abnormal things this Pr*sident does? Like spend most of his time at the golf course on the public dime, enriching himself? Or, the amount of nepotism and cronyism that never existed to the degree it has since this maniac took the WH? Or, how the party in power at every level is doing absolutely nothing about any of the things that are destroying us as a country, even when Fascism has reared its ugly head and Authoritarianism is now what weâre dealing with?
For all the lofty talk, it would have been much more direct if he had just gone to the heart of the matter and spent less time talking around all those things that his party has brought on itself.
Personally I liked it that a Repuglican made a long speech about American values and how theyâve been trampled by his party and his president.
I try not to miss OâDonnell so I catch Frum when heâs on, and between him and George Will they eviscerate moron to an extent no elected pol can do. Fortunately he doesnât know most of the words theyâre using and the sentences donât contain any of the superlatives heâs fond of using. Except stupidest.
And so, Mr. President, I will not be complicit or silent.
Great speech, and Iâm glad he didnât include Saint Ronnie who was not one of the great Rs. His governorship was a race baiting fest which also took him to the WH.
@robcat2075 Theodore inspired FDR to go into politics, who went so far as to marry his niece. For that Iâll always think of Theodore kindly.
@tena You like me are very tired of the complaining about Dems not doing enough about the problem called moron. An R will be listened to by other Rs, and thatâs a fact.
President Roosevelt continued, âTo announce that there must be no
criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by a president,
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally
treasonable to the American public.â
Note that he didnât say that until after he was President and was then opposing one.
Thatâs the thing about having people like Frum and Will and GOP members of Congress saying these things. Everyone expects the Democrats to say this stuff but it makes an impact when itâs the GOP saying it.
Not me. Maybe it was better having heard it in person. It seems rather highfalutin and sounds like heâs doing a poor imitation of âFriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earsâ. If you like that kind of rhetorical bullshit, fine. It would have been much more courageous to attack tRump specifically for the ways heâs taking down the country. Heâs still not confronting the problem. Heâs talking around it by talking about âvaluesâ. What are those values? Being anti-abortion, cutting taxes, building walls?? Those are values Flake is for and his votes prove it. If its about tRumpâs behavior and his partyâs failure to stand up to itâŚwhat specifically is he referring to? He should have the courage to spell that out. tRump is a bully, and now Flake has decided to quitâŚand this speech only shows, bullying works.
I see something entirely different. I see Flake at least publicly and because others will see this I think, as a person who could not continue in the present situation because it is harming the country. He didnât run away, he quit because of Trump and because of the other GOP who support Trump.
Not sure that would have shortened the speech at all.
I see Corker as one that gets it. Flake doesnât. Heâs just out because he canât compete with tRump, his party, or Bannon and the Mercers. Sorry. He can talk all day and night, it still doesnât impress me. No props from me. To each their own.
Youâre welcome to your opinion - itâs not you that I think Flake was aiming his speech at anyway.
Itâs the rest of the GOP and the GOP voters he was talking to and because he is GOP and not one of us, he will probably have an affect.
This speech, IMO, is as close to oratory as weâve heard from a senator in a very long time. We had Cruz channeling Dr. Seuss, we had Boner yelling âHell, no!â, we have both partiesâ leaders deploying poll-approved soundbites, and little eloquence from any quarter. I applaud him.
Seriously - I love it that someone cares still enough about language and oratory and civil political discourse to make a speech like this.
