Corker Stands by Comments About Trump

[struggle4progress]

By Mark Niquette
October 1, 2017, 10:56 AM EDT

Republican Senator Bob Corker said he stands by his comments that Donald Trump hasn’t shown the stability or competency to succeed as president ...

Corker .. announced on Sept. 26 that he won’t seek re-election in 2018 as a Tennessee Senator ...

"I hope that the election of the type of candidate that was elected there doesn’t say that much about the Republican Party," Corker said of Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court justice who was removed twice as chief justice for refusing to follow federal court rulings. "I think it’s more about the resentment that people have towards the fact that they don’t see Washington solving problems.”"

Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also had a warning about North Korea’s expanding nuclear program, saying the standoff with the U.S. is "moving to a place where we’re going to end up with a binary choice soon" ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-01/corker-stands-by-comments-about-trump-stability-competence

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We are moments from world war, someone better do something NOW

[struggle4progress]

2. Trump Undermines Tillerson on North Korea Talks

by KALHAN ROSENBLATT

Just one day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States had “lines of communication” to North Korea, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet telling the secretary of state: "Save your energy."

"I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...," Trump said in a tweet ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/save-your-energy-rex-trump-tweet-undermines-sec-state-tillerson-n806381

[Beartracks]

3. Washington doesn't solve problems because there's too many Republicans there. n/t

[CrispyQ]

4. Is he fucking kidding?

"I hope that the election of the type of candidate that was elected there doesn’t say that much about the Republican Party," Corker said of Moore...

Your party has courted these assholes for years! And the fundie loons, too. Now that the country is in their hands, you wonder if it's a reflection of your party? Fuck off, Senator.

[Scruffy1]

5. Courted hell, they made them.

You reap what you sew. They have made ignorance and prejudice virtues. Now that the monsters they made are taking over, they are just trying to save their own asses. from the coming debacle. They are already running away from Trump and tring to claim they are not responsible. Moore doesn'y think the law applies to them and neither do most of the GOP.