A member of Republican leadership in the US Senate has likened his relationship with Donald Trump to a marriage, and said that he was “maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well”.
Not very flattering to men…
Trump spent some of the weekend in a public fight with Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Sasse criticised Trump in a call with constituents, lamenting among other things his treatment of women and the way he “kisses dictators’ butts” and “flirts with white supremacists”.
You know, little things like that.
Trump fired back with insults, forcing Republican National Committee chair, Ronna McDaniel, on to the defensive on the Sunday talkshows.
Or she could just admit the truth, but whatever.
Blasting back at Sasse, Trump showed he never forgets a slight. The Nebraska senator, the president tweeted, “seems to be heading down the same inglorious path as former senator Liddle’ Bob Corker”, who became “totally unelectable” because of his criticism “and decided to drop out of politics and gracefully ‘RETIRE’”.
Two weeks…
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8 responses to “Guess who fired back with insults”
Right, so Cornyn is playing the ‘fighting him from the inside’ card, claiming that he restricted his criticisms of Trump to face-to-face conversations rather than criticising him publically. I call bullshit on that. Whether he’s criticised in private or in public, Trump will always hit back publically, and I don’t recall seeing tweets from Donnie insulting Cornyn.
Won’t be long now, though.
Trump may underestimate Sasse’s ability to get reelected. That is definitely considered a safe seat; who else do Nebraskans have to vote for? A Democrat? Yeah, there’s one running. So what? That seat is definitely considered safe. I imagine most Nebraska Republicans pretending Sasse never criticized Trump. What? That nice Ben Sasse? He wouldn’t do that!?!
Yeah, Sasse was careful to stay on Trump’s good side until after the Republican primary earlier this year. Now that he knows he’s safe, he’s found the “courage” to start positioning himself for 2024. (The official Democratic candidate has been disavowed by the party after it came out that he sexually harassed his staff; Dems are promoting a write-in campaign. So — yeah, Sasse’s seat is about as safe as a seat up for election this year could conceivably be.)
I find Sasse almost as despicable as Lindsay Graham. Both are dishonest suck-ups when it suits them, but “bold independents” when they think it’s safe; the only difference is that Sasse knows he’s safe in 2020 and is playing for a post-Trump world, while Graham is fighting for survival in 2020 and knows he can’t afford to lose any Trump fanatics.
Exactly. He is self-serving. He should be Nebraska-serving, and US serving, but no, he is self-serving. But the mess with the Democratic candidate (we’ve gone through a couple of other candidates that were put up by the party when the first one went down, but it remains a mess and a clown car of a campaign).
Sasse did fight back against the Trump administration at first, but fell in line, I presume after some pressure from the party.
From what I understand of Cornyn, he gave the example of saying that he disagreed with Trump over using defense funding to build the border wall. He says he did this privately on two occasions because he is a ‘defense Hawk’. I understand the public record shows on both occasions he voted in favour of diverting defense funding to the border wall project. Such commitment to his ideals.
Senators revealing their opposition to Trump, staffers fearing for their reputations; anybody would think there’s an election on the horizon that they think their side might lose. Next up? Moscow Mitch claiming Trump has kidnapped his family to make him do his bidding? CIA snipers have Barr in their sights 24/7 to keep him on-script?
Real rats don’t make excuses when they leave the sinking ship. Then again, real rats don’t care about saving face, they just swim.
I don’t have the link at hand, but Dan Rather pointed out that the analogy to rats leaving a sinking ship is unfair to the rats: generally, the rats weren’t complicit in the sinking.
Dan Rather has a very valid point but it doesn’t leave us with many alternative comparisons. There’s the ‘we were just following orders’ / burn their papers and run Nazis or the, erm, uhh, nope, I got nothing.