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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, May 3, 2019

Are There Fissures?

Odious and aggressively wrong Stephen Moore has withdrawn from his nomination as governor on board of the Federal Reserve.  Trump put forth two laughably bad nominees because he saw them on the TeeVee.  Apparently enough Republican Senators said, "Yeah, no."

Also, the Barr hearings showed only Sasse push back a bit against Barr, but also few GOP Senators doing more than offering vocal support for Trump and Barr, rather than countering Democratic questions.  Compare this to Chairman Nadler cutting Devin Nunes' mic over in the House.

We've been waiting for Republican politicians to put their oaths of office before their political opportunism, but I wonder just how sick of defending Trump they really are.  They won't defect in public, because they are a cohort of cowards and collaborators.  But just how much are they willing to carry water for this guy?

UPDATE: Jesus, these people.  The Senate GOP and the White House are now on opposite sides of a Hail Mary lawsuit to end the ACA.  Are these jamokes aware of the invention of the telephone?

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