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GOP getting on board Trump's victory train
Washington Examiner ^ | Nov. 16, 2016 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 11/16/2016 7:16:32 AM PST by GonzoII

House Republicans who once dreaded an election-day pummeling by Democrat Hillary Clinton were instead greeted on Capitol Hill Tuesday with dozens of signature red baseball caps bearing the "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan of president-elect Donald J. Trump, the GOP nominee whom few of them had been willing to embrace.

Until now.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fairweatherfriend; fairweatherfriends; gop; trump; trump2016
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I figured as much...
1 posted on 11/16/2016 7:16:32 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Pathetic fair weather fans. Oh well I’ll take them.


2 posted on 11/16/2016 7:19:03 AM PST by scottinoc
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To: GonzoII
Ah, Republicans.

The Literal Definition of a Fair Weather Friend.

3 posted on 11/16/2016 7:19:18 AM PST by KC_Lion (Trump's Iowa Class Battleships have come within striking distance of Hillary shores and opened fire.)
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To: GonzoII

POLITICO ‏@politico 2h
2 hours ago

#PhotoDuJour: House Republican Whip Steve Scalise holds up
a "Make America Great Again" hat http://politi.co/2f3XHux  via @playbookplus

4 posted on 11/16/2016 7:20:10 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII
Don't fool yourself: GOP insiders to Trump: Leave the policy to Paul Ryan

They think they elected a sock-puppet. When Trump proves them wrong then they won't be any friend of his.

5 posted on 11/16/2016 7:20:39 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: scottinoc

I don’t believe them. They’re track record on “commitments” is not a good one as we’ve been painfully reminded time and time again.


6 posted on 11/16/2016 7:21:38 AM PST by Starboard
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To: GonzoII

Even now thy are plotting, behind closed doors, how to under obstruct Trump every step of the way.


7 posted on 11/16/2016 7:22:01 AM PST by Leep (Winner winner chicken dinner!)
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To: DoodleDawg

One thing I Really like about Trump, is that when someone does him wrong, he will stomp them into a mud puddle. He uses Twitter and Facebook as his media, since the MSM are now a Radical Political Socialist wing of the Demoncrats.


8 posted on 11/16/2016 7:25:02 AM PST by davidb56
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To: GonzoII
whatever
9 posted on 11/16/2016 7:25:38 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: GonzoII

Oog-a-chugga - oog-a-chugga - all aboard!


10 posted on 11/16/2016 7:26:23 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: GonzoII

Priebus and Bannon are signs of the direction Trump is going.

I think he is building a team — in the real sense of that word — and not just filling seats with impressive names.

An MVP quarterback and an MVP receiver don’t necessarily mesh. I think Trump is striving for the mesh.


11 posted on 11/16/2016 7:27:53 AM PST by xzins
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To: GonzoII

12 posted on 11/16/2016 7:28:45 AM PST by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: scottinoc
Pathetic fair weather fans. Oh well I’ll take them.

They're politicians. They migrate to where there's power.

13 posted on 11/16/2016 7:29:26 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: GonzoII

The treacherous, slimy SOB’s know which side of the bread has the butter.


14 posted on 11/16/2016 7:34:46 AM PST by W. (Aw crap, need more beer...oh wait, delivery happened! Yay!)
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To: scottinoc

“Pathetic fair weather fans”

When Trump said “Drain the Swamp”, I think he was also referring to the RINO’s in the House and Senate.


15 posted on 11/16/2016 7:35:53 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Sea levels are rising- from liberal tears.)
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To: All

Sure they (all) are. We know better. Don’t even try to tell us they’re all with us.


16 posted on 11/16/2016 7:42:21 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: Rennes Templar

Trump also knows that this is going to require multiple steps over many years, he isn’t going to drain the swamp in one day, but he will start the process. Just like building a sky scrapper he knows he has many steps in order complete what he wants to do.

Right now he has to “work” with these people for a couple years before they can get primary’d in 2018 and replaced with Trump Republicans

He’s leading a movement, and he knows this


17 posted on 11/16/2016 7:44:58 AM PST by arl295
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To: FreeReign
They're politicians. They migrate to where there's power.

...shoved in the back by Adam Smith's invisible hand.

18 posted on 11/16/2016 7:46:41 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: DoodleDawg

I believe we will see Ryan syep down as speaker after President Trump is inaugerated.


19 posted on 11/16/2016 7:48:00 AM PST by ssfromla
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I believe we will see Ryan syep down as speaker after President Trump is inaugerated.

I believe you are wrong. If Ryan is re-elected Speaker on January 3rd then he'll be there long after the inauguration.

20 posted on 11/16/2016 7:51:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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