Poking the enraged bear suffering from gout and a migraine
The lawyers are not happy.
Outrageous! https://t.co/Y5hR2sDMnH
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 17, 2018
Shame! https://t.co/SPU1QFwCPp
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) April 17, 2018
Look, I’m glad @SenateMajLdr believes @realDonaldTrump would be wrong to fire Special Counsel Mueller, but we need the bill to protect Mueller, and we need it now. https://t.co/7gB7hBokQp
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 17, 2018
McConnell has said NO we’re not ever going to have a bill to protect the Mueller investigation, no no NO, now stop bothering him.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday thwarted a bipartisan effort to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job, saying he will not hold a floor vote on the legislation even if it is approved next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
McConnell said the bill is unnecessary because President Donald Trump will not fire Mueller.
That is such a grotesquely stupid excuse for a “reason.” He doesn’t know that; it’s highly unlikely to be true; Trump has planned to fire Mueller twice and been talked out of it, just barely; thinking something won’t happen is not a good reason to insure against it in any case.
It’s so stupid it’s like saying “because magic.” Where does he get off saying dogmatically that Trump will not fire Mueller? Given the hundreds of reasons Trump has given us to think that’s exactly what he’ll do? That’s like saying Trump won’t insult anyone on Twitter, or Trump will talk cogently and rationally at a meeting, or Trump cares more about the public good than about himself. What possible reason is there to be confident that Trump won’t fire Mueller?
In any case why not vote on the bill anyway? Why not just make sure?
His comments came amid widespread opposition to the bill among members of his caucus, with several GOP senators saying the bill is unconstitutional. Others said it’s simply not good politics to try and tell Trump what to do, likening the legislation to “poking the bear.”
If he’s a bear, he really shouldn’t be president. We’re not supposed to have bears as presidents. Bears are not good at presidenting. Bears will eat you.
So if Trump fires Mueller, just how much egg will McConnell be forced to display on his face?
Also: When a family finds itself tiptoeing around one member to avoid provoking an outburst, we call it an abusive situation. GOP senators are now admitting that’s what their relationship to the freaking *president* is like? Congress needs fucking family therapy? And to turf the abuser as incorrigible, of course.
Because the Republicans are cowards. They’re afraid of that bear.
If Trump did fire Mueller, you might — MIGHT — get enough Republicans on board to do something (either passing a new independent counsel statute with a veto-proof majority, or impeaching and convicting Trump). But when it’s just a hypothetical, few of these profiles in courage want to stick their necks out on a purely preventative measure. Any Republican who does is risking: (1) Trump writing mean Tweets about them; (2) someone primarying them for being disloyal to the Dear Leader; and/or (3) losing in the general election because some of the Trump base stayed home to punish them.
So it might be very dangerous for such a vote to take place, because my guess is that a lot of Republicans who might act on an actual Mueller firing would chicken out right now. Some would vote “no” and say it’s because it’s unconstitutional. Some would vote “no” and claim that, although they don’t believe there are grounds for firing Mueller now, they don’t want to tie the President’s hands in case things do get out of line. And some would vote “no” and say it’s because Mueller is on a witch hunt and the Deep State and Clinton is the real witch and MAGA MAGA MAGA build that wall…
… but Trump won’t care what the stated reasons are. He’ll interpret all of those “no” votes as support, and so it might just embolden him further.
Now, hopefully, behind the scenes McConnell is warning Trump that, look, I can keep this legislation from coming up for a vote now, but actually firing Mueller (or Rosenstein) really will be doomsday for you, so for God’s sake don’t do it.
My point exactly. They’re talking about poking the bear, in reference to the president – now that’s normalizing it.
If he’s a bear, all the more to restrain him.
A bear would be a better president.
Even with the eating thing.
I reject the idea that the reds are cowards and instead propose that they’re fine with things as they are.
BKiSA – can it not be both? I think they are fine, but…these are people who spend their life promoting the war machine, the military, and constant intervention in other countries, but manage to get out of war when the draft comes knocking. They are people who seem to be afraid of ideas. And other things.
Cowards. And fine with things as they are. And believe they have the absolute right to rule, and that the very fact of being a Democrat makes you ineligible for office, so they eject steam from the ears every time one gets elected.
There’s also their habit of never criticising the Fuhrer in public or under their own name, but venting at length anonymously. They know what a disaster Trump is, but they are terrified of voter backlash. Thanks to the fact that there is now an entire ecosystem of news outlets completely unmoored from fact and thoughtfulness, any public criticism will land any one of them in the sites of the media machine.
Holms, they’re afraid Trump will do to them what they spent 25 years doing to Hillary.