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McConnell defends Corker amid Trump feud
The Hill ^ | 10/9/17 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 10/09/2017 7:13:31 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: markomalley

This whole article is dishonest:

The timeline given suggests Trump’s tweet started it, when in fact Corker called Trump unstable, incompetent and worse in an interview prior to August 17.

CNN ran a story about it on August 17 which I easily found on YouTube by searching Bob Corker. I would have posted a link to it if I knew how.


81 posted on 10/10/2017 5:53:39 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: markomalley

he’s an important part of our team,” McConnell said Monday in Kentucky

wtf team is that mitch. The democrats who infiltrated the republican party team?


82 posted on 10/10/2017 6:28:10 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: markomalley

The Democrats and Republicans are all afraid of Trump and what he might do to expose their lack of accomplishments now and over the years. Many politicians are afraid they will not be re-elected. Government employees are afraid they will lose jobs for lack of productivity. The media is afraid they will continue to be expose for not reporting fairly. Actors and movie makers are afraid of making less money for stupid movies. Sports figures are afraid people will be less interested in adults playing children’s games.


83 posted on 10/10/2017 6:34:24 AM PDT by FreedBird (O)
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To: OPS4
The South was a one party region until the 1980s. The Democrats until that time had a pro-business faction, really pro-crony capitalists, represented by politicians like John Connally of Texas, John Stennis of Mississippi, or Willis Robertson of Virginia. There was also a liberal faction, whose ideology was similar to the national party, represented by politicians like Bill Fulbright of Arkansas, Ralph Yarborough of Texas, or Claude Pepper of Florida. There was a third faction, actual Jeffersonian liberals who were staunch segregationists but otherwise resembled 1950s-1960s era Buckley/Goldwater conservatives, such as Lester Maddox of Georgia, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, or Coke Stevenson of Texas.

The conservative faction was the first to migrate to Republican ranks, epitomized by Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, who joined the GOP in the Nixon era. When the national Democrat Party migrated to the left under McGovern and Carter, the pro-business faction also migrated, more slowly than did the conservatives. However, by 2000, the pro-business faction had left the Democrats. This faction, which was more Hamiltonian, was comfortable with the establishment wing of the GOP, and vice versa. In most of the Southern states, they became the dominant faction in the local Republican machinery. Thus, you have such characters as McConnell, Corker, Rubio, Cochran, and Cornyn being the preeminent figures in Southern politics on the national stage.

Three cheers for the conservative rebellion that took down Luther Strange in Alabama and sped Corker's retirement decision.

84 posted on 10/10/2017 6:59:17 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: markomalley
Corker also told the Times that he didn't get pushback for his "day care" comments when he talked to McConnell on Sunday.

Just in case anyone wonders why McConnell's popularity is where it is. Or Corker's for that matter.

What is it? "Hey, I'm GOPe. Contribute to my campaign and I won't do very much. Look at my record."

85 posted on 10/10/2017 8:07:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DoughtyOne

Masterful moves by Trump & Bannon to flush out the Never Trumpers in Congress. GOP e is starting to come apart.

Like a good hound dog, the quarry doesn’t even see them coming & they respond with knee=jerk reactions & expose themselves to the voters for who they REALLY are.

Kudos to Bannon & Trump.

2018 elections will be very entertaining.


86 posted on 10/10/2017 8:25:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: markomalley

The question is, if there are a large number of pro-Trump individuals contesting the 34 Senate seats up next year (whether as Republicans or otherwise), will Ryan and McConnell pull the trigger and remove Trump before the damage to the swamp is irreversible?


87 posted on 10/10/2017 8:28:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: gibsonguy; LS
Thank God impeachment has to come from the house or Trump would be doomed

Ryan (Romney) only needs 25 Republican votes to send Articles to the Senate. Why do you suppose Mueller keeps begging to be fired?

It's a very, very high-stakes poker game. If Ryan moves too soon and without a proper fig leaf to cover his 25 traitors, he won't have the votes. If he waits until November 2018 is on people's radar, he also won't have the votes.

Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) know Trump is impulsive and that he does not have the very thick skin typical of a politician. They keep poking and poking, hoping for a blowup that will get those 25 Republicans in the House to sign on to removal (I'm sure there are 80 votes in the Senate to convict right now).

88 posted on 10/10/2017 8:34:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like)
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To: montag813

Interesting that McConnell supports a tax cheat who sits on the budget committee..

I think committee assignments should be vetted better than this.


89 posted on 10/10/2017 8:41:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: markomalley
McConnell and Corker are OVER.

Let us focus on WHO will replace them.

90 posted on 10/10/2017 8:44:49 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: wiseprince

I am not convinced Ryan has been moving things along.

He’s talked like he has, but I haven’t seen much popping up on the Senate radar.

You stated the Senate had been worse, and that may be true. It still should be more apparent that Congress has submitted things to the Senate, and the Senate had refused to act on them.

I will say there have been a couple of instances of it, but not the broad evidence of it I would expect, if Ryan were doing his job. First of all, he’d be giving Mitch a hard time if he’d been operating on the up and up.


91 posted on 10/10/2017 8:59:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Jim Noble

Yet, for a guy without “thick skin” Trump has deftly managed all these idiots.

Always underestimated.

Ru Paul’s window closed two months ago. There is no impeachment. The Rs all see they are almost ALL doomed to be kicked out if they don’t play ball, and quick.


92 posted on 10/10/2017 9:07:02 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ridesthemiles

I agree with you. I wrote this to someone else, but it applies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3593650/posts?page=9#9


93 posted on 10/10/2017 9:14:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: markomalley

These recalcitrant obstructionist GOP establishment types will face primaries, and they deserve to lose.


94 posted on 10/10/2017 9:35:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: RoseofTexas

cool


95 posted on 10/10/2017 9:42:23 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: Calvin Locke

I’d say both.


96 posted on 10/10/2017 10:47:29 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: LS
I think it's time for President Trump to fire Elaine Chao. He doesn't need pillow talk in the McConnell household sharing White House plans.

I do recognize that doing so would be the spark that lights the final stick of dynamite that blows up his relationship with Congress, but that relationship has proven to be a façade and he's gotten no benefit from having McConnell's wife on his team.

-PJ

97 posted on 10/10/2017 10:57:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
I think it's time for President Trump to fire Elaine Chao. He doesn't need pillow talk in the McConnell household sharing White House plans.

Trump needs a juicy scandal that brings down BOTH Chao and Turtle Head. Hope there's a good one out there.

98 posted on 10/10/2017 11:50:06 AM PDT by CDB
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To: markomalley

Turtle Neck Mitch is worth less than a dog’s f*rt.

He is every bit as big a traitor as Pelosi


99 posted on 10/10/2017 1:32:37 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Did you forget the sarcasm tag? Or are you serious? The VA gubernatorial race is a uniparty lovefest.


100 posted on 10/10/2017 1:46:01 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (There's a voter born every minute.)
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