Republicans are responsible for the Trump fiasco - By Jennifer Rubin

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
December 21 at 11:30 AM

Let’s put aside for the moment the question of whether President Trump committed crimes in obtaining the presidency (conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws by hush-money payments or receipt of assistance from a foreign power) or since his election (in obstructing justice, witness-tampering, etc.). Let’s for now not dwell on the closure of his foundation, which the New York state attorney general found to have engaged in a “shocking pattern of illegality.” Let’s not argue whether attacks on the courts, the First Amendment, the FBI and the Justice Department violate his duty to “take care” that the laws are faithfully executed, nor on whether his receipt of foreign emoluments, ongoing conflicts of interest and hiring of a series of ethical miscreants have debased his office.

At present let’s address “just” the obvious, frightening reality that this president is incapable of performing the basic functions of the office (e.g., keeping the government open), attending to our national security (e.g., not handing geopolitical gifts to our enemies) or truthfully relating intelligence (e.g., not lying about Jamal Khashoggi’s killers). He no longer has the advice of any respected, competent senior adviser nor the trust of members of his own party, who profess (suddenly!) to be worried about the conduct of foreign policy.

We have gotten to this sorry stage of events because Republican lawmakers shielded him from scrutiny and indulged his lies, racist rhetoric and attacks on democratic norms. To make matters worse, Republican senators refused to reject unqualified or extreme nominees.

You’d think at some point they might feel just a twinge of regret, a tiny speck of guilt over having created and sustained a political monster who has thrown the country into chaos.

And yet …

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[Iliyah]

1. This.

The Republican party's politicians knew:

1. Unqualified; 2. Was not duly elected (stolen); 3. Greedy conman; 4. Have no morals nor ethics; 5. In cahoots with foreign governments not favorable to the wellbeing of the USA, et al.,


When you have congress majority leaders lying their asses off like McTurtle has done and did today, in my eyes, the Republican party sucks and should be disband.

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin' with disgust

[Midnight Writer]

3. They should have stepped on his tail a couple of times early on. Tough to leash train an old dog.