The ex-Republican lawmaker, Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) used the Fourth of July to declare his own independence on Thursday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1233276
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1233276
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He got Trump’s “Seal of Disapproval”. Welcome to the club Justin. You’re in good company!
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Yeah, takes one to know one, Cheeto!
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This reminds me of the old adage, The enemy of my enemy is a cranky, self-proclaimed Libertarian.
Let’s note that Mr. Amash has been perfectly OK with the downward deviancies and depredations of the GOP since Saint Reagan and up to Cheney/Bush’s 8 Years of Misfeasance, Malfeasance, and Stupid War, plus Tea Party-led obstructionism during Obama’s terms. Did he denounce GOP-sanctioned Birtherism?
It will be interesting to see who allies with him now, after he dumped on everybody, not just the Obstruction-of-Justice Party. Watch Rand Paul refuse to take his calls, for example.
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Is he running for reelection as an independent? I don’t think Amash is as vain and self-regarding as Jeff Flake, but he may have become just as irrelevant.
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He’s running.
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" A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South." – Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858
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He should have remained republican. This neutralizes him.
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Folk at his town hall were sure enthusiastic about his talk of impeachment. He’s not done.
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Amash has proved braver than Flake, who has only winced a lot, wrung his hands publicly, and fled the DC scene without doing anything but writing an unread book. Please note how Flake is silent about the Mueller Report’s disclosures.
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He should have remained republican. This neutralizes him.
[/quote]Exactly.
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I’m sure Flake will call for a return to civility which makes him aces in my book.
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Nicely timed, doing it on that great American holiday, the 4th of Trump…
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Modern politics is trapped in a partisan death spiral, but there is an escape . . . Preserving liberty means telling the Republican Party and the Democratic Party that we’ll no longer let them play their partisan game at our expense.
I’ll defer to @srfromgr on this, but as one of the founders of the Freedom Caucus how is Amash to be taken seriously in his OpEd rage against partisanship?
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Susy Collins may or may not be deeply concerned about this turn of events.
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I don’t really know how this works, especially the Republicrazy party. But could he be planning to “primary” Trump? Or run as an independent against him?
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You misspelled “Fourth of You Lie.”
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Self-banishment is always a choice, and it must have been better than the alternative. What worries me more is what happens to the GOP who remain in the pool with Trump for the full ride. We’ll probably need something equivalent to the Nurenmburg trials just to work through all the malfeasance of the Trumpsters. Duncan Hunter may be envied later for his decision to get out of Dodge early.
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Are you doing both the matinee and evening shows? How’s the veal?
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