WAPO: Republicans, its time to panic. The window for whispered criticisms has closed.

[ehrnst]

GOP denial about Trump has generally taken Ryan’s form. The president may be eccentric and divisive, but Republicans need to keep their heads down and think of tax reform. This assumes that the main challenge is to avoid distraction from essential tasks.

But the real problem has always been Trump’s fundamental unfitness for high office. It is not Trump’s indiscipline and lack of leadership, which make carrying a legislative agenda forward nearly impossible. It is not his vulgarity and smallness, which have been the equivalent of spray-painting graffiti on the Washington Monument. It is not his nearly complete ignorance of policy and history, which condemns him to live in the eternal present of his own immediate desires.
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No, Corker has given public permission to raise the most serious questions: Is Trump psychologically and morally equipped to be president? And could his unfitness cause permanent damage to the country?

It is no longer possible to safely ignore the leaked cries for help coming from within the administration. They reveal a president raging against enemies, obsessed by slights, deeply uninformed and incurious, unable to focus, and subject to destructive whims. A main task of the chief of staff seems to be to shield him from dinner guests and telephone calls that might set him off on a foolish or dangerous tangent. Much of the White House senior staff seems bound, not by loyalty to the president, but by a duty to protect the nation from the president. Trump, in turn, is reported to have said: “I hate everyone in the White House.” And also, presumably, in the State Department, headed by a secretary of state who apparently regards his boss as a “moron.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-its-time-to-panic/2017/10/12/5775d558-af76-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.53b0febb5fdb

[Madam45for2923]

1. Yep, it is time for people to put their big person pants and do their freaking jobs to protect

our Republic! Our Democracy. Our Constitution.

It is time for adults (n) to adult (v) !



ehrnst!!!!

[spanone]

2. they will do nothing. their agenda is get re-elected and screw those of lesser means.

[rockfordfile]

20. It's not about them it's about Democrats. Democrats have to go after the Trump/GOP.

[bdamomma]

15. I think they are leaving that to us.

they feel to entitled and their agenda is to steal more money from Americans.

Haven't we been abused enough????

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. The stockmarket magically goes up by 40 points everyday.

This is why they won't do anything about trump.

It can't go up forever, it never does.

[Hamlette]

16. yea, what is that?

What is happening? I suspect, just like everything, the rich are in control and are investing in anticipation of a big tax cut but the market usually does better under democrats and Trump is a madman so WTF?

It looks more and more like a bubble everyday.

[maxsolomon]

4. Whistling Dixie

The 25th is not happening.

Impeachment is not happening absent a miracle in 2018.

Focus on 2020. Nominate a ticket he can't put in the Insult Machine. Harris/Tester.

[bearsfootball516]

5. Ding ding ding ding ding!

We have a winner!

[Hamlette]

17. remember local elections in 2020 too! They are just as important

as the congressional maps get drawn after the 2020 census and we need to make a dent in the gerrymandering.

[rockfordfile]

19. If the Democrats were in charge now, he would have already been impeached

If the Democrats win back the House, then they can begin impeachment.

[cwydro]

22. I agree. I see lots of wishful thinking about the 25th, but thats not going to happen.

Nor will impeachment.

[0rganism]

6. the avalanche has already started

[Gothmog]

7. Hopefully, trump will destroy the GOP

[BigmanPigman]

11. He is pure evil and so is the enabling GOP.

I want to witness both of them getting destroyed before they destroy what is left of my country. I have been ashamed and embarrassed to be an American.

[ismnotwasm]

9. Who, besides the oleaginous Sean Hannity

Oleaginous is a perfect describer

[Corvo Bianco]

10. Preach sister.

[inwiththenew]

12. They aren't going to do a damn thing until at least after the primaries next year but realistically

not until after the midterm elections. With Bannon and the deep pocket Mercers that's a fight they don't want in the primaries. At the end of the day they care more about keeping this gravy train of public office they've got for themselves going.

[Le Gaucher]

13. Panic? Who? Republicans

They are loving every moment of this.

They get to destroy government and point fingers at the Pussy grabber

[Midnight Writer]

18. Totally agree. This is exactly what they want. Rape the country and blame Trump.

[Blue_Adept]

14. If he were in charge of any company with shareholders he'd be gone

It's one thing to do this kind of thing in his own company and wreck it, but if it was any other business there'd be a solid revolt quickly to remove him from power.

Time to run things like a business.

[catbyte]

21. Republicans will do NOTHING. They're too afraid of Cult45 to do jack shit.