Pierce: Bob Corker Is Responsible for Trumpism, Too

[babylonsister]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12809544/bob-corker-trump/


Bob Corker Is Responsible for Trumpism, Too

Don't let his recent change of heart compensate for a string of terrible decisions.
By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 9, 2017

The big news on Monday was that Scott Pruitt, the extraction industry sublet and current second-place grifter in the Misuse Of Government Airplanes sweepstakes, took a jaunt down to Hazard, Kentucky to announce that "the war on coal" was over and that he would be rolling back the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plant. This is because Pruitt is as complete a tool as one can find at Home Depot and because he no more belongs as head of the EPA than an elephant does performing at the Bolshoi.

Bob Corker thought that Scott Pruitt was just the man for the job.

Bob Corker also voted in favor of making a discreet racist the Attorney General, for putting a grifter at the head of Health and Human Services, and for putting unqualified buffoons at the head of the Departments of Education and Housing And Urban Development. Bob Corker was altogether fine with stiffing Merrick Garland for a year in order to hijack a Supreme Court seat for Neil Gorsuch who, apparently, even John Roberts can't stand. It was cool with Bob Corker, several times, if millions of Americans lost their healthcare and if even the surviving restrictions on Wall Street brigandage and campaign finance went up in smoke. Bob Corker voted with the administration 88 percent of the time. And as Alec MacGillis pointed out on the electric Twitter machine, Bob Corker stepped in and monkeywrenched a union drive at an automobile plant in Tennessee.

In short, fckabuncha Bob Corker.

Habitues of the shebeen better get used to this right now because I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot of this. Desperate conservative Republicans trying to get out from under this president* by pretending they weren't complicit in the entire decades-long accommodation with unreason and fanaticism that made a president* like him not only possible, but inevitable. We're going to see a lot of people claiming immunity from the prion disease with bits of the monkeybrains still visible on their chins. We will not be buying this here in this establishment, nor will we be buying the argument that "reasonable conservatives" will save us from the catastrophe in which they all are wholly complicit, and that certainly includes Bob Corker, who thought Scott Pruitt was aces for the EPA job, and who thought Merrick Garland unfit for the Supreme Court because a Democratic president had nominated him, and who is now crawling from the wreckage he helped create.


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They need to clean their whole house instead of simply railing at the maniac they invited into the front parlor. Once, at a presidential debate, a third of the Republican field admitted publicly that they didn't believe in evolution. And that was 13 years ago. The prion disease has been running wild ever since. There's no strategy for triage anymore. All are infected. All must be quarantined.

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[mcar]

1. I'm happy to applaud Corker for what he's saying now

But we cannot forget he is a solid RWer who has gone happily along with this travesty.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Even the most disgusting asshole on Earth has a friend at the fast food counter.

"Hi, ya, Buddy. What can I get you today?... You want fries with that? How about a shake?"

[Leith]

3. Hey, Corker - You Built That!

Pierce is spot on. Corker is a little late in noticing the atrocity he actively worked to put in place.

[bluecollar2]

4. kick and rec...n/t

[rockfordfile]

5. True

[Hekate]

6. KnR!!!