Republicans Must Tell Trump to Go – Now

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

History won't judge them kindly if they stand by the president

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/republicans-must-tell-trump-to-go-now-w498063

 

Forget impeachment. Forget Robert Mueller's investigation. Forget Russia. Well, don't forget them, but put them to the side for a moment. Investigations and impeachments and Senate trials take time, and we don't have time any more. The president has to go now, and it's up to his fellow Republicans to get him to leave.

Of course his response to Charlottesville was late and insufficient – this is who he is

On Tuesday, the president of the United States said there were good people marching alongside the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

We can't have a president who says good people march with Nazis. We just can't. We have so much work to do on race in this country, so many people who need to understand the depth of systemic racism that pervades every aspect of society. We need dialog and understanding, but right now we're in an emergency, and this guy has to go.

It can't just be up to liberals and leftists to make this call anymore. It's not enough for Republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan to issue generic statements denouncing racism. We have a racist president. Every elected official needs to denounce him by name.

 

 

 

But even that doesn't go far enough. It's time, after nearly 30 weeks with him in office stomping on the Constitution and basic human decency, to demand his resignation. Every time we thought there were no more lines for him to cross, he finds a bright red one and leaps over it.

This can't be a partisan issue any more. At some point all but the most extreme Republicans have to be able to recognize a national emergency when they see one. If not now, when? If this president isn't unfit for the office after what he said Tuesday, who would be?

Will it work? Would Trump go? It's tough to predict, but never forget how sensitive Trump is to criticism. With enough pressure from the entirety of the political structure in this country, including a refusal to work with him, he might dig in – but he just might give up and go back to running his real estate empire. Even someone as self-delusional as he is can only face so much pressure to resign before giving in.

Hell, Republicans, you could even come out ahead in the political calculus. Making Trump resign would be a momentary embarrassment for the party, but you'd end up with Mike Pence, a bedrock conservative who will sign your giant tax cuts for the wealthy and not call you names on Twitter. I know you're afraid of your party's primary voters, but sometimes you have to do what's right for the country rather than yourself.

It certainly isn't a difficult moral question. What Donald Trump said in his press conference Tuesday was so awful, so contrary to all notions of basic human decency, that it immediately makes him utterly unfit to be preside

 

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Amen

[eieio 1,594]

Good luck with that. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

Hahahaha this had me laughing. 

[IAMX 3,055]

Beware, lefties would have been nice to Republicans if not for Trump.

 

Anyone wanna buy a bridge?

[jg121783 3,915]

I think it is the other way around. Some of the Republicans (and democrats for that matter) need to go.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

4 hours ago, jg121783 said:

I think it is the other way around. Some of the Republicans (and democrats for that matter) need to go.

Wow talk about a blind spot, if you honestly believe members of Congress are the problem here as to what has transpired over the past week then you are justifying the Presidents actions.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Donnie up and early, attacking Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake. Those subpoenas are giving him rough nights.

[Dashinka 24,505]

7 hours ago, IAMX said:

Beware, lefties would have been nice to Republicans if not for Trump.

 

Anyone wanna buy a bridge?

Yeah, it is all Trump's fault.  Without him, congress would be singing kumbaya altogether.  If the GOP wants to get rid of Trump for political reasons, there is a process for that.

[Dashinka 24,505]

1 hour ago, JimandChristy said:

Wow talk about a blind spot, if you honestly believe members of Congress are the problem here as to what has transpired over the past week then you are justifying the Presidents actions.

Wait, I thought the members of congress, especially the GOP members, were the problem from 2011 through 2017?  Which is it?

 

[IAMX 3,055]

9 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Wait, I thought the members of congress, especially the GOP members, were the problem from 2011 through 2017?  Which is it?

 

They're all Nazis. 

[Dashinka 24,505]

Just now, IAMX said:

They're all Nazis. 

And racists, and fascists, and whatever other -ist or -ism the MDL is currently demonstrating.  What is interesting is that it is the DNC that is currently attempting to integrate institutional racism in the country through their identity politics.

 

"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists". Winston Churchill

[eieio 1,594]

44 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

And racists, and fascists, and whatever other -ist or -ism the MDL is currently demonstrating.  What is interesting is that it is the DNC that is currently attempting to integrate institutional racism in the country through their identity politics.

 

"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists". Winston Churchill

So true.  Also, the mainstream media is for the most part, in collusion with the dnc. 

[IAMX 3,055]

5 minutes ago, eieio said:

So true.  Also, the mainstream media is for the most part, in collusion with the dnc. 

If the lefties band together, surely they will get their way.

[eieio 1,594]

4 minutes ago, IAMX said:

If the lefties band together, surely they will get their way.

New tantrum next week.  Although they have been on the latest tantrum for 4 or 5 days now....so they might have time to be outraged about some thing else before the week is over?