Posted on 12/24/2018 3:08:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump
Republican leaders need to mount an intervention. Thomas L. Friedman
By Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion Columnist
Dec. 24, 2018
Up to now I have not favored removing President Trump from office. I felt strongly that it would be best for the country that he leave the way he came in, through the ballot box. But last week was a watershed moment for me, and I think for many Americans, including some Republicans.
It was the moment when you had to ask whether we really can survive two more years of Trump as president, whether this man and his demented behavior — which will get only worse as the Mueller investigation concludes — are going to destabilize our country, our markets, our key institutions and, by extension, the world. And therefore his removal from office now has to be on the table.
I believe that the only responsible choice for the Republican Party today is an intervention with the president that makes clear that if there is not a radical change in how he conducts himself — and I think that is unlikely — the party’s leadership will have no choice but to press for his resignation or join calls for his impeachment.
It has to start with Republicans, given both the numbers needed in the Senate and political reality. Removing this president has to be an act of national unity as much as possible — otherwise it will tear the country apart even more. I know that such an action is very difficult for today’s G.O.P., but the time is long past for it to rise to confront this crisis of American leadership.
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Consider the source: Whoa! Now consider the writer: Double strength BARF!
What a deranged lunatic this guy is.
Yes, because the NYT really (really) cares about the Republican party.
Tommy, tommy, tommy.... you REALLY don’t want to go down that road.
Correction. She. did not receive an award for her Iraq reporting, she got fired for it. She’s a sorry sack of BS and is now working for Fox News. This Wikipedia article does a good job summarizing her career:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller
I can’t imagine why FNC hired her. She’s even a worse commentator than A B Stoddard.
Whigs tried to do this to President Tyler—tossed him out of the Party but he still ruled as an independent. Trump would just form his own party.
Hey Lupi GFY!
LMAO...
Trump ran against the Establishment.
And won.
How about firing you tom!
Hey Tom all enemies foreign & domestic. Yeah we are watching you and your name is on the list.
I expect them to kill Trump. Then Civil war 2 The LEFT is satanic.
The thing I like about this guy is that he doesn’t give an F! Both the Bushes would talk about “working together” and “compromise.” Look where it got those two knuckleheads.
Don’t give an inch and don’t give them a thing!
I like it.
.....like 65 million people elected friedman......
The GOP establishment wants more war in the Middle East. They are still Bush- Cheney mentality. That’s why they’re livid that Trump wants to withdraw. Listen to Graham and Liz Cheney howl. Only Sen Rand Paul has spoken in support of Trump on Syria, not a single other Republican senator that I’ve heard. Don’t be surprised if he gets impeached by the Dem House - and convicted (thrown out of office) by the GOP Senate
I believe that there are more of us than there are GOPe. Let them try that and we might see Gallows being erected in Washington DC.
Captain Midnight and the Lunatics.
Isn’t that the name of the new liberal grunge band
led by Occasional Cortex?
This just shows how out of touch and what little grasp these idiots have regarding our government and country.
We are NOT a corporation.
We are NOT ruled by our political parties.
WE elected Trump as OUR President.
THEY, in congress, have their jobs ONLY because WE put them there with the idea that they REPRESENT us.
We need to wipe out DC and start over. Media as well.
They’ve completely lost touch.
LOL
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