Cowardly Republicans go utterly silent in the face of Trump's cruelty to refugees and immigrants

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This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by NancyBlueINOklahoma (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: DailyKos


By David Nir


Saturday Jan 28, 2017 · 2:01 PM CST





Democrats are going at Trump with guns fully ablaze over the president’s new executive order blocking all refugees from entering the U.S., but where are Republicans? Aside from Paul Ryan, who’s desperate to keep Trump happy so that he can secure the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy that are his raison d’etre, just about the entire GOP is nowhere to be found:

The majority of Republicans in Congress were silent on the order Saturday. Calls and emails to more than a dozen top GOP lawmakers were not returned.

As Trump sets fire to the world, his party goes into hiding........................

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/28/1626504/-Cowardly-Republicans-go-utterly-silent-in-the-face-of-Trump-s-cruelty-to-refugees-and-immigrants

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I have only watched for about an hour and half today (msnbc only--) but I think they are doing a good job of covering this horrible WH debacle

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[Mrs. Overall]

1. I think the Democrats need to speak up and voice their opposition--NOW!

[RiverStone]

3. Agreed - cowardly applies to anyone in power who does not stand up against facism!

[fountainofyouth]

2. Never let them forget

They stood silent not only as they instituted this racist order, but issued it by fiat without consulting anyone at DHS or State.

[mrsv]

4. I haven't heard anything from our leadership

<crickets>

[Tikki]

13. Booker, Sanders and Harris have come forward to condemn trumps actions on this.

Those are just the Democratic office holders who made the front page of DU...i know there are others.

Tikki

[Tikki]

5. Supposedly all christians are united behind trumps goals...supposedly.

Then all muslims should unite and, oh well, if they confiscate his businesses in muslim countries
let's see if americans will send their children to fight to get his properties back.


Tikki

[OldHippieChick]

6. As a Christian, let me say I am not

behind his discriminatory, anti-American, anti-Jesus goals.

[Lulu KC]

8. All fundamentalist "Christians," maybe

Lumping all of us together is a big mistake.

[Tikki]

11. I did say supposedly...or at least that is what I believe his cronies want others to think.

But I am curios if his Alt Right troops will send their children to muslims countries to make money for trump
like they did for boosh?

Tikki

[anneboleyn]

10. I wonder. Notice Trump camp isn't mentioning his terrible "approval" numbers

Gallup has his "approval" at 42% (and Gallup leans right -- my instinct is that the number is below 40%). So maybe certain groups of fundamentalists love every single thing Trump does until it impacts them (such as the slashing of union workers' pensions). But certainly there are many Christians that do not support the Orange.

[geek tragedy]

7. Evergreen headline nt

[pbmus]

9. Immoral leadership leads to our reality...

[Achilleaze]

12. "But our arms (and our palms) are open for our BFF Russian comrades." - IKGOPR*

* Illegitimate KGOP Regime, Inc.

[thegoose]

14. While this idiot keeps getting away with this...

[orwell]

15. They haven't been told what to say yet...

...by Roger Ailes, Vladimir Putin, and Frank Luntz.

They need their talking points before they go in front of the cameras and all regurgitate the same focus-grouped pablum.

Same as it ever was...

[OKNancy]

16. opinion by a writer on kos - locking

even though it's true, this is not Breaking News.
It's easy to tell opinion just by the use of the word "cowardly" in the title.
LBN is for hard, dry news. Other articles can easily go in GD.