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Posted on 08/01/2025 2:59:54 PM PDT by RandFan
President Trump is increasingly directing his frustrations at specific Senate Republicans, including turning his fire on key allies in recent days.
The president this week publicly excoriated Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) over upholding the “blue slip” tradition and pushing a congressional stock trading ban, respectively.
While Trump has long had a tendency of airing his grievances out in public — especially toward those he views as disloyal — the latest barbs about staunch backers are raising eyebrows and drawing questions about whether the strategy will continue to be effective in advancing his agenda.
“I don’t think it’s helpful for the president … to get in a tit for tat with other Republican members,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of GOP leadership. “He needs every single one of us, and we need him.”
Trump has repeatedly tangled with Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), a libertarian-minded Republican who is not shy about voting against the president’s priorities, as well as Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the former Senate GOP leader who once spoke out against Trump, has voted against several of his nominees and has become a leading voice in favor of the Ukraine aid Trump often rails against.
Earlier this summer, he put off some Senate Republicans by attacking Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) over his opposition to Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” A number of Republicans indicated they were not big fans of the way the president went after a vulnerable incumbent seen as a team player, and one who had helped advance key Trump nominees. Tillis announced his retirement shortly after.
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First - The Hill
Second - RINOS
They suck.
Strange behavior, binge posting anti-Trump crap from TDS sources like The Hill to sow FUD among the conservative faithful...
The Hill.
Any questions?
Because you can't trust "the conservative faithful" to think for themselves because they aren't highly intelligent like you.
If they were allies they wouldn’t keep stabbing him, and those who voted for them, in the back.
Saw Rod Blagojevich on Laura. He could win Durbin’s seat running as a REPUBLICAN. A favor to Trump. Then the POTUS could be more hard-ass with the rinos playing games.
Too many people, these days, choosing doors that Jesus warns about:
- Authorized Personnel Only
- Exercise, Eat Right, Rest & Sleep Right
- Fiery Exchange
- Loose Lips
- Peace, Love & Tranquility
- Fiery Exchange
- Loose Lips
Gee, I wonder how many we may never uncover?? 
I don’t do drugs, but living in Illinois?
I’d almost like to try some of what you’re smoking.
Blago? *Seriously*? Good Lord, man. Everybody knew the guy was a sleazy crook 30 years ago. Because the Illinois democrooks didn’t care, he rose through the ranks to the point he *proved* to everyone in the state he was a sleazy crook.
Is this what conservatism has become now?
Rod @#!@#!!! Blagojevich sells the same BS he sold to the Dems 20 years ago, repackaging it, and now selling it to so-called “conservatives”?
Good lord.
This might be the single most depressing thing I’ve ever read on FR.
He becomes a contestant on a gameshow ~15 years ago and now he’s a Good Guy?
Rod Blagojevich. MAGA hero. I don’t even have the *words* to describe how completely insane this is.
I assumed the “Blago as a Republican” thing was a joke, but is it really any more of a joke than the losers the GOP habitually put up for statewide office in Illinois?
Alan Keyes, Jim Ryan, Jim Oberweis, the Salvi Family....
“Land of Lincoln” Republicans basically just phone it in.
Grassley and Hawley have both recently done things which are worthy of criticism. Blue slips stop Trump’s nominees from getting through, why would Grassley want to keep them? Why would Hawley be against stopping the insider stock trading inside congress?
And he can’t find it to at least not endorse loudmoth warpig Lindsey ?
It’s a depressing state situation - I won’t deny it.
I would note - Keyes, Oberweis, Ryan/Salvi to a lesser extent and more recent statewide nominees have been sops to the downstate GOP.
And statewide? Sorry - but they’re not gonna win. 2/3 of the voters in the state live in Chicago and the collar counties.
Once upon a time, we could elect people like Jim Edgar, Mark Kirk, Peter Fitzgerald, etc because the collar counties (shout out to DuPage! And even Lake!) would reject the leftists the Ds put up.
The problem in the IL GOP is that increasingly, nobody can do math. They don’t just “phone it in” - they want *only* their guy who completely turns off the suburbs.
I’ve long had a job and family and a life so it’s not like I devote myself full-time to elections and politics, but I just think back to the 2006 IL gubernatorial election.
I knew Judy Baar Topinka a bit and was a fundraiser for her campaign. Yeah, yeah - call her a “RINO”. But she was a good, honest woman. More socially liberal than me, but a rock solid fiscal conservative that I did align with on the basic idea that government’s job is NOT to take care of you.
2006 was - of course - a tough environment for Republicans. I get it. But - she lost to Blago because the sleazebag grifted something like 10X the amount of money. Maybe she would have lost regardless, whatever. Everybody in Illinois was smoking the hopium at that time and an (R) was poison, a (D) was pleasant smelling farts.
You want to win as a Republican in Illinois? Keep the margins down in Chicago, fight to a draw in the suburbs, and run up the margins outside.
The problem is - the most recent IL GOP at even local levels - is surrendering places like DuPage. And the downstate Republicans? Rather than taking the blinders off? Just get mad and double, triple, quadruple down on the sort of candidates who get 80% rather than 70% downstate.... but move the suburban Rs from 50/50 to 45/55.
That works if if the populations are equal... but they’re not. So, great. You get 8 of 10 rather than 7 of 10. Meanwhile, you go from 50 of 100 to 45 of 100.
This is NOT complex math.
“2006 was - of course - a tough environment for Republicans. I get it. But - she lost to Blago because the sleazebag grifted something like 10X the amount of money.”
You certainly are right about the destruction of the Chicago suburbs; much of Lake County always seemed squishy to me anyway, but once places like DuPage County flipped (McHenry is next) it was “game over” for the ILGOP.
Blago was hardly popular in 2006 and won re-election with less than 50% because a Green Party guy (Rich Whitney) took 10% as a left-wing protest vote candidate.
I may be remembering this wrong, but I recall that in the Chicago ghetto his name was (deliberately?) misspelled on the ballot as “Rich Whitey”. And no self-”respeck”-ing ghetto homey is going to vote for any rich whitey. :-)
I guess they were expecting a much closer election and feared Whitney taking enough far-left votes to thwart Blago’s chances. Of course it didn’t end up being close at all.
Old Father-in-law Richard Mell is the brains behind Blago.
Mell has always been bipartisan when it benefitted him or his daughter. Is the strategy to run for office? Or to be bought off with a cushy appointment?
Blago won statewide. He got screwed and Trump said it. There’s gotta be a sympathy vote out there for him if he’s willing to show up on Fox News. Let him be the Susan Collins of the midwest as long as he gives us a profile in courage vote once in awhile. It’s called redemption. Republicans can give it to him.
They better worry. They need him more than he needs them. The time after the midterms could be more consequential than this year and next, given the right election results. The first Trump term was sabotaged by Senators McConnell, Graham, and Romney, not to mention Sessions, and the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
What about forgiveness? Christ counsels forgiveness. I am willing.
It’s elementary Dr watson!
Trump is not running in any more elections. He is not afraid to speak his mind now.
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