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tblue37

(65,342 posts)
1. Because Corker has been criticizing him recently on TV and in print news.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:16 AM
Oct 2017

Having decided not to run for reelection, Corker has felt free to tell ugly truths about Trump.

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)
6. Corker said Tillerson, Kelly, Mattis are what's separating our country from chaos
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:23 AM
Oct 2017

just a few days ago. Lots of media attention.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/bob-corker-mattis-tillerson-kelly/index.html

Washington (CNN)Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "help separate our country from chaos."

"I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis, and Chief of Staff Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos, and I support them very much," the Republican chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee told reporters Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

When asked about the relationship between President Donald Trump and Tillerson, which is reportedly on thin ice, Corker suggested that the secretary of state doesn't have the support he needs from the President.

"I mean, look, I see what's happening here," Corker said. "I deal with people throughout the administration and (Tillerson), from my perspective, is in an incredibly frustrating place, where, as I watch, OK, and I can watch very closely on many occasions, I mean you know, he ends up being not being supported in the way I would hope a secretary of state would be supported, that's just from my vantage point."

Takket

(21,565 posts)
9. laying the ground for pulling out of the Iran deal (which is working BTW)
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:49 AM
Oct 2017

If Obama had invented puppies drumpf would order them all rounded up and put to death.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
10. Trumpy is DARING the GOP to turn against him. And the GOP?
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:50 AM
Oct 2017

They're getting beaten into submission by this evil monster, and they'll do nothing to stop it. They can feel the pounding of the feet of Nazi fascists through the ground, and they're frozen in fear. They fear the rise of the far right, and they know that the far right is after them if they oppose Trumpy.

So we're seeing the GOP, as a party, turn coward. They're frightened wimps who shudder at the thought of defending their moral obligation to put country before party.

The death knell of the GOP can be heard everywhere. The fascists are coming for all of them. Either you join them or you'll be crushed. That's the message. Bannon and his crew of Russia-supported fascists are obsessed with power, and they're being given a wink and a nod by Trumpy.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
11. The GOP is so weak
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 10:51 AM
Oct 2017

They are afraid to really stand up to Trump. Ryan and Mitch still kiss his ass in spite of what he has said about them.

awesomerwb1

(4,268 posts)
14. And oddly enough
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 11:23 AM
Oct 2017

there's ton of infighting within the Dems. We're on the verge of something absolutely terrifying chetolini so we all have to come together to defeat a common enemy.

Don't blow it Dems.

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