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Which brings me to my final point. It seems high time for the institution of Congress to step up. Make no mistake, what Trump said on Sunday was a big deal. Imagine, for a second, that this was a Democratic president ordering a Democratic attorney general to investigate the last Republican administration. Imagine any president making this instruction to any AG. It's a step beyond where we've been, but it is consistent with Trumps M.O., which is to accuse others of the thing he has been accused of doing.
Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should make it clear that they view Trumps tweet as having crossed the line. Likewise, as Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Trey Gowdy (who, like Ryan, is choosing to step away from the fightwhich means he has little to lose) should publicly speak out on this.
The (apocryphal) line often attributed to Edmund BurkeAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothingis especially true today.
Our institutions are only as strong as the people leading them. Will Congress answer the call?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thedailybeast.com/its-about-time-paul-ryan-and-mitch-mcconnell-located-their-spines
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Some in the GOP do but most do not, these two hell no.
orangecrush
(19,549 posts)while it lasted.
imanamerican63
(13,787 posts)Still looking!
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)Unfortunately, these men you named are not good men.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Putin has them after bribing them by financing their campaigns.
davekriss
(4,616 posts)Why would they take action to stop this train wreck of our democracy if theyre directly benefiting from it?
Chickensoup
(650 posts)Our country is being corrupted
before our eyes.
sooner or later when the truth comes out
you will be held to account.
nancy1942
(635 posts)Why on earth would the spineless cowards suddenly wake up from their stupor at this late moment? They're well on the road to the total destruction that they have obviously chosen to take against us. No-one is going to rock the boat.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)They are riding the sled to the bottom of the hill, getting their "thrill" - all of the "anti-Obama" - "feed the rich" bills they can get through before the "realize" that the Emperor has no clothes.
They will bail out when they see (admit) that there have been crimes committed and before they can be connected to them.
We can only hope that the sled has already passed the point of no return and they all crash into the wall.
orangecrush
(19,549 posts)Thanks!
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Appreciate the thought!
Obviously, great minds think alike!