Want to know some senators who are really not into the Trump agenda? Just check out the official Trumpanzee adhesion scale. These are the ones who really don't agree with almost anything he's attempting to do:
Saturday we saw how Trump is fracturing the Republican Party to the point where the risk of wholesale retirements and resignations will be high from mainstream lawmakers. Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Reichert (WA) and Dent (PA) could well be just the tip of the iceberg. We'll have to see.
Even with Hurricane Harvey relief for Texas tied to the debt ceiling deal that passed the Senate 80-17 yesterday, there is a lot of grumbling among right fringe Texas Republicans that the deal Trump cut with Pelosi and Schumer is too liberal for them to back.
If conservative Republican journalist Jennifer Rubin keeps attacking Trump so vociferously, the DCCC will soon recruit her to run for Congress-- or fellow Beltway journalists will rebrand her a rising star in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. after all, being against Señor Trumpanzee seems to trump any and all other qualities.
Trump is fighting with Republicans again. He's all but endorsed one of the right-wing lunatics primarying Jeff Flake (R-AZ)-- and is expected to explicitly do so when he travels to Phoenix to pardon Joe Arpaio this weekend.
Active Shooter by Nancy OhanianYesterday, the Washington Post reported on the little soap opera between Señor Trumpanzee and Miss McConnell: Trump steps up attacks on McConnell for failure on health-care reform, noting flatly that Señor Tr
Instead of Heller vs Rosen, how about Sbaih vs Tarkanian?Yesterday, you may have seen that an American Research Group poll of likely presidential primary voters in New Hampshire showed that John Kasich leads Trump 52-40%. And if Trump is replaced by Pence, the news is even better for Kasich. In a 2-man head to head, Kasich leads Pence 41-27%.
Shouldn't Nancy Ohanian be commissioned to do the official Trumpanzee family painting?Drawing on an historical perspective, author and activist Danny Goldberg bemoaned the left's circular firing squad for Nation readers yesterday.
Fareed Zakaria had GOP establishment NY Times columnist David Brooks on his CNN show Sunday to talk about Señor Trumpanzee’s role within the conservative movement. I don’t know who watches Zakaria’s show-- no one I know-- but I bet there was a lot of teeth gnashing from Republicans when Zakaria opened the segment by setting up a comparison between Saint Ronnie and Trumpanzee. “Where does conservatism go from here?
