Warren SLAMS GOP over Trump: "“Guys, this is what you did to yourselves"

[kpete]

“What have Republicans in the Senate been doing since the very day that Barack Obama was sworn in?” she said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Massachusetts senator’s first television appearance since the beginning of the presidential race. “They have given in to their extremists, in fact they have nursed their extremists along.”

“They are paying the price for their own extremism,” she added in a referent to Trump's popularity, which has shocked much of the GOP.

Warren slamed Senate Republicans for a “shutdown approach” to legislating that she said extended to their refusal to grant a vote to anyone nominated by Obama to the Supreme Court.

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“Guys, this is what you did to yourselves,” Warren said of Senate Republicans. “And if you really want to stop it, stand up and do your jobs.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/272632-warren-slams-gop-over-trump-you-did-this-to-yourselves

[Hekate]

1. Saw her on Rachel Maddow. The Senator is just great.

[AxionExcel]

2. Republicans take American taxpayer pay, do no freaking productive work for America

It's yet another form of Republican Welfare.

[Hortensis]

3. God, I like her. We really need to be talking about EXTREMISM.

Most conservatives do not realize that the Republican Party was taken over by extremists long ago because we don't use that word. They think this is what conservative ideology is, they know that conservatism is good, thus this is good. Elizabeth called them out for what today's GOP has become.

Extremist movements are inherently dysfunctional and unstable over the long term. This one is very widespread and well entrenched, though, and this current meltdown in the GOP alone does not mean other right-wing ultraconservative/extremist power blocks, such as the Kochs', are in similar trouble. They have taken some good hits recently, with this, losing Scalia, and Obama in the White House, but are still very, very powerful.

[NurseJackie]

8. Excellent post.

[SusanaMontana41]

12. YES

Thank you.

[Roland99]

4. Mostly started w/the rise of the Teabaggers. And just who exactly started funding that "grassroots"?

Kochs

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Right on, President Obama!

[passiveporcupine]

6. I just had to look for that interview...and Warren is pissed!

It starts off great. I wanted to post it here because she is fun to watch when she is riled up like that. She really puts congress in it's place.

Love this women.

[LittleGirl]

7. thanks for posting that clip! eom

[Mnpaul]

9. Warren's call out was so complete and thorough

Maddow had to think a bit for something to add. There isn't much more to say after that rant.

[SusanaMontana41]

13. She's wonderful

One of a few Jiminy Crickets in Congress. We're so lucky to have her.

Thanks again, Massachusetts!

[Stellar]

16. Love this woman!

I saw this video early yesterday. I'm glad that she did not chose between Hillary or Bernie, she knows that she carrys a lot of pull to all Democratic constituents and she should let them pick their next president. Look how much hatred she had thrown her way by not putting her weight behind Bernie. I guess they would prefer that Hillary's people would be pissed off at her. I think she did the right thing personally. Let the people choose.

I just love this woman!

[moondust]

10. She's absolutely right.

The right has been "quietly" feeding their extremist monster for decades, watching it grow stronger. Of course it was inevitable that somebody would eventually come along and open the cage. Say hello to Drumpfenstein.



Now what?

[NNadir]

11. Irrespective of whose "fault" Trump is, Trump is a reality. From what I see here at DU...

...I'm not sure we're doing what we can to address this.

I see more hostility here to the Democratic candidates than I do to Trump.

I fully credit the President's remarks that negativity created Trump. I'm not sure we do ourselves any credit by all of our own negativity.

[SusanaMontana41]

14. Trumpf is their baby,

but no longer is he just a problem for the GOP. He now is the nation's problem, too.

I've been saying since Trumpf divulged Sen. Lindsey Graham's telephone number that this is not going to end well.

Please let me be wrong.

[Scully]

20. Important call-out

Your point re: hostility here to our own candidates versus to Trump is probably the most vital and prescient statement I've read in a long time.

I don't post much, but I have been around DU for a long, long time- and I can't remember this level of sustained internal vitriol in any election past. If the climate within DU is representative of the Democratic perspective on the whole, we are in trouble as a party and as a nation, because we are fighting each other instead of him.

One of the things I love about politics is the passion it ignites, but this primary is so emotional, so viscerally intense that I fear the effects will still linger for the general, leaving us powerless to address the hate-machine that is Trump. GOP may have created Trump- but if he gets into office because we can't band together to defeat him, history will place the blame on the divided blue for his election.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Extremists are unstable. This is true.

I've seen editorial cartoons over the past two or three years warning of the Frankenstein monster the Republicans have created by pandering to the extreme evangelicals, libertarians and such.

There was one 20th century extremist who was quite far off in the estimation of the stability of his regime.

The one who said "The Third Reich will last a thousand years."

It lasted twelve years. That's quite an error.

[malaise]

17. She nailed it

as usual

[different equation]

18. Yes, you are totally correct...nt

[Jefferson23]

19. Good for her. +1.