If Donald Trump Wins, the GOP Will Rein Him In, Right? Uh, Yeah - By Joy-Ann Reid
Congressional Republicans promise that they’d put the clamps on a President Trump. And what exactly have they done to demonstrate that this would be the case?
Lost in the latest news cycle of Trumpian outrages and insanity was a move by House and Senate Republicans last week to block any inquiries into Donald Trump and his gang’s web of ties to Russia. This despite the fact that the candidate’s financial entanglements and Putinite sympathies could negatively impact foreign policy and national security should he become president. So are these the people we’re supposed to count on to keep a President Donald Trump from blowing up the world?
When they’re not tripping over their own tongues deciding whether Trump is or is not a good role model, Republicans keep insisting that if voters keep them in charge of both houses of Congress, they will rein in their preferred commander in chief. Indeed, the prerogatives of the first branch of government, the legislative, were designed to keep a president’s power in check (or to obstruct him to the point of absurdity, in the case of Barack Obama.)
But these Republicans, who back Trump no matter how outrageous or temperamental or seemingly unstable he becomes, cannot possibly be counted on to stand in his way if he wins in November.
Which of the lot should we trust to stop a President Trump—Secretary of State John Bolton or Defense Secretary Michael Flynn—from pursuing his more excessive desires: whether weakening our bond with NATO or recognizing Putin’s annexation of Crimea? The same Republicans who are preventing Democrats from holding a single hearing on Trump’s Russia ties?
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/07/if-donald-trump-wins-the-gop-will-rein-him-in-right-uh-yeah.html
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Godwin's Law enacted. 
Seriously, though, electing someone you know has to be "reined in" after inauguration is the height of folly IMNSHO.