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being a Republican who's talking tough before rolling over is an Arizona tradition.

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To your second question: I don't know for sure, but I'll warrant Faux News had something to do with it. And to the first - yes. Every last one of them.

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Thank goodness no one has ever accused republicans of being smart.

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I was gonna go with, there's nothing Trump respects and leave it at that..

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are there any left in the GOP?

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Agreed. Which makes me wonder - how many of them (AOTK, I know) are getting a regular influx of freshly-washed rubles, and at what price was each willing to sell the country for? Ten pieces of silver?

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Senator, you're no Robert Crawley

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Better to beggar belief than bugger reality.

(I don't know what it means either, but it sounds deep.)

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*Congress passes blanket approval of all the Trump familia sleeze.*

Problem solved!

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There's a Cambridge Analyatica jibe to be made here. I'm sure it'll come to me later..

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I have to wonder how quickly they might try to pull off impeachment and conviction if the midterms sweep them out of power. We might actually see functional government come out of the GOP, temporarily, if they had three months to get, say, Paul Ryan installed as president. As soon as he was in place, of course, functional government would revert to the current pillaging and pursuit of theocracy.

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Mr. President, please don't expose us as the boot-licking toadies you and we and everyone in the country knows we are.

FIFY, Flakey.

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We don't need to take our country back, as the right-wing so loudly proclaims.

We need to take our government back. If we could get special interest money out of our elections then our "representatives" would work for us. A lot of good things should follow from that.

Maybe we can get the teens on it.

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Which one is the smart one again?

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They do appear to be the only ones who can get anything done these days.

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Very simple, because the vast majority of the Republican base is adamantly behind Trump. If they come out against him, they will be challenged in a primary by a pro-trumpian candidate; and will likely lose to them. I am sure many of them see the writing on the wall and know what the future holds, but their more immediate situation takes precedence.

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