Retiring GOP lawmakers cut loose on Trump

[Demovictory9]

Members have cited a mix of reasons for deciding to leave Congress, from expiring chairmanship terms to family and personal reasons.

But some lawmakers have pointed to another factor: Trump. They say that the unconventional, freewheeling president has added new headaches to an already demanding job.

“It’s exhausting,” centrist Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), who announced his retirement last fall, told The Hill. “What we’ve gotten out of the administration is all this disruption, and it’s very destabilizing.”

Dent has become one of the most vocal and outspoken Trump critics in Congress, always offering up a reliable soundbite to reporters in the Capitol seeking GOP reaction to the latest White House controversy.

Just last week, Dent told The Associated Press that Trump’s "lack of impulse control" is cause for concern, after a week of unpredictable moves by the White House left lawmakers uneasy about key Republican agenda items.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/382028-retiring-gop-lawmakers-cut-loose-on-trump

[Angry Dragon]

1. They put party above country

[Oppaloopa]

2. Can anyone remember the republican who voted No on impeachment of President Clinton?

What happened to him. I always wondered.

[mercuryblues]

5. In the senate were 10

that voted no on the obstruction charge and 5 on the perjury charge.

You need 67 votes in the senate and the R's only had 55 seats. The vote was pure theatrics for their base.

In the house 2 articles of impeachment failed and 2 passed.
81 R's voted against abuse of power and 28 against a secondary perjury charge.

the 2 articles that passed:

the 1st perjury charge, 5 R's voted against it.

12 R's voted against the obstruction charge


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/house-votes-to-impeach-clinton-oct-8-1998-243550

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6. One of them was Arlen Spector who became a Democrat

the article doesn't say and I don't recall who the rest were. The Senate voted after the election of 98 where the GOP lost seats due in no small measure to impeachment.

[mercuryblues]

7. Along with some other ethics problem

Gingrich ended up resigning from Speaker and the house. His polling told him they would gain 30 seats on the promise of impeachment, in reality they ended up losing 5 seats. The loss, combined with his ethics scandal was the final straw for R's.

Bob Livingston became Speaker and his own extra marital affairs became public knowledge. After the impeachment vote, he also resigned from congress. 3 more R's that voted for impeachment also had their past affairs exposed during the hearings. (Burton, Chenoweth and Hyde) Hyde- where we get the Hyde amendment from.

The 3 house r's that lead the impeachment were, Gingrich, Livingston and Hastert.....I kid you not. Hastert became speaker when Livingston quit. Whom we found out just a few years ago he was molesting boys and paying hush money to them.

https://thinkprogress.org/what-we-now-know-about-the-men-who-led-the-impeachment-of-clinton-8b5557723bc9/


The others were Chaffe RI; Collins &Snowe ME; and jeffords VT.

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8. Jeffords became an independent

Chaffe died in office in 2001 or he might have become independent. Snowe is out of office and hopefully Collins will be gone soon.

[duforsure]

3. Its clearly showing,

Their party is in deep, deep trouble, especially now as more corruption running wild out of the White House, and this administration. Even Frank Luntz is now saying the Senate may be flipped by the American voters over to the Democrats. Losing both houses will happen as they continue to do nothing to stop all the corruption, and protections for trump and their own over this country's national security. Its falling apart for them every day as more is exposed.

[marble falls]

4. Much too little, much too late.

[First Speaker]

9. Piss on "retiring Republicans"...

...where have they been these past three years?