Instead of abdicating their constitutional duty, the Senate should adopt secret voting for the confirmations (they just used secret voting to elect Thune SML). This would protect GOP Senators from MAGA retribution.
We really already know. This is not a question I am exercising any brain cells on. I need as many as I can muster for questions like “How will I like living under Russian control?” or “Is my polio vax still good?” or “Is shoe leather edible if it’s marinated in soy sauce?”
They’ll capitulate. Won’t care much until they face the midterms after cutting taxes and regulations for corporations, slashing the federal budget, and cutting ACA subsidies, SS, and Medicaid.
Actions make clear already: No #honor, no #integrity, zero courage, have already disgraced their oath to the Constitution by supporting someone promising to “terminate” it, among other things
Those that demonstrated bravery or concern for the health of your democracy (e.g. Cheney, Flake) have long been cancelled by followers of you-know-who.
These nominees are meant to test their loyalty. Those who vote against his nominees, will face hand picked MAGAs in primaries, who will get big $’s from “the new George Soros of the right” and they will be voted out.
Had republicans been patriotic, brave, or cared, we wouldn't be where we are now because the fanta menace would have been convicted in the senate and not able to run again.
what I wish every american knew was: the war has begun. Russia is here. No troops or tanks but their assets are in the highest places in government and our national security apparatus. The 21c war starts out quiet, and when things devolve fully into autocracy..the bloodshed begins.
Not very confident in what Rs will do to counter Trump’s “absolute power.” We messed up early on (1832ish) allowing concentration of power in alternate party control. The founders warned us not to do that. Trump is the inevitable endpoint of our democratic institutions.👇
They are anti-scientific flat-earthers. And totally ignorant of America’s history. As far as I can tell their actual mission is to make Russia great again.
In France, they didn’t vote against Le Pen because she was a woman but because she’s a far right racist and fascist. In the US, they voted for someone expressing far right racist and fascist ideology because the other candidate is a biracial female. 😞 These nominations are horrific.
We found out 4 years ago when Trump was impeached after an insurrection. It is over, there are no republicans that are going to step up. Why would you expect anything else?
Will Republicans honor their oath of office to support the Constitution, over their loyalty to the felon? The fact that these types of questions are being asked, shows how low our opinion is of Republicans
How much do they really care about the health and the security of Americans?
I'm afraid we're going to find out they care much more about their own power.
It'll only be if their constituents turn against them that they'll stop to think about their actions.
Anne you know the answer to this- they didn’t have the courage to impeach him, which would’ve eliminated this whole situation. I’m not sure why anyone thinks they’re going to find the courage now.
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This is the most power their party has had in a long time and they’re almost all drunk on it.
How weak? We know the answer. They will bend the knee. All of them. That's what they've been clinging onto for four years.
If they fail to exercise their power as a co-equal branch of government, then “that’s it” for our democracy .
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2) Brave? They're eunuchs.
3) They don't. They only care about their small quota of power and the money they make from it.
They care only about enriching themselves and furthering their own world view, which unfortunately is dystopian for the rest of us.
So we already know about what and about whom Republicans in Congress care.
– Thomas Paine, 1776
I'm afraid we're going to find out they care much more about their own power.
It'll only be if their constituents turn against them that they'll stop to think about their actions.