Posted on 12/11/2016 8:01:38 PM PST by Steelfish
DEC 11 2016 GOP Opposition to Potential Trump Cabinet Nominees Grows by LIZ JOHNSTONE
Donald Trump's unified wall of partisan support has shown a few cracks over Cabinet appointments that run counter to both campaign promises and traditional Republican foreign policy ethos.
Breitbart, the normally pro-Trump, right-wing website formerly run by top Trump adviser Steve Bannon, accused the president-elect putting foreign labor ahead of American workers by choosing fast food CEO Andrew Puzder to lead the Department of Labor.
The Conservative Review, meanwhile, called Puzder an "open border zealot."
Meanwhile, Erick Erickson, a staunch Trump critic who applauded him for picking Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, wrote for his conservative website The Resurgent that nominating former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnunchin would mean the ratification of the "status quo."
But it was perhaps the news that Trump intends to tap ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has ties to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, that has engendered the most vocal opposition from elected officials within his party.
Marco Rubio was one of the first Republicans to take a shot a Tillerson, with the Florida senator tweeting, "Being a 'friend of Vladimir' is not an attribute I am hoping for from a #SecretaryOfState."
Sen. John McCain told NBC News on Saturday that Tillerson's ties to Russia would be the subject of any Senate confirmation hearing. On Fox News, he said the relationship was a "matter of concern."
"You want to give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt because the people have spoken. But Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying," McCain told Fox News.
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Still postng anti-Trump garbage I see.
Fake news or shades of a coming civil war in the GOP?
The senate losers need to be taken to the woodshed. They are perennial losers who need not get in the way of winning.
McCain is a lying, backstabbing, traitorous, sack of poop and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying.
There, fixed it.
The media is a piece of work, aren’t they? Still doing the Democrat Party’s bidding by trying to cause dissension among all of us.
“You want to give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt because the people have spoken. But Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying,” McCain told Fox News.”
Speak for yourself John. You love to send weapons to terrorists and send our sons and daughters off to endless wars.
McCain collaborated with the Communist in Vietnam absolutely!! Then he met with Isis to fight the sovereign country of Syria that never did one thing to this country. His butt boy is that sorry gramnesty. Pay them no min at all except to get them out of your state!!
McCain should just shut up.
He did not manage to beat Obama when he was the GOP nominee.
Also remember, he told us we had nothing to fear from Obama. Was he running against Obama or was he just a paper tiger, helping Obama win.
The Conservative Review, meanwhile, called Puzder an “open border zealot.”
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Puzder was a Cheap Labor Express Republican who supported Rubio’s Gang of Eight treason, he has since repudiated that stance and promised to staunchly represent Americans as Labor Secretary.
Rubio, Graham and McCain have no room to criticize anyone after arming jihadis and advocating for illegal aliens.
McCain needs to shut his pie hole. Though I am sure that it is always available to Linda G.
Do these idiots wish that Hillary had been elected?
Still postng anti-Trump garbage I see.
Yeah, the concern trolling is just a tad over done. LOL.
Senator Songbird, star of N. Vietnamese cinema..
The senate losers need to be taken to the woodshed. They are perennial losers who need not get in the way of winning.
Unfortunately, the Senators have confirmation votes that Trump needs. Kind of hard to “take them to the woodshed” at the moment.
McCain was the Designated Loser and he played his role as well as his successor, Mitt Romney.
It was only the entry of Trump into the race that spared us another amnesty candidate Designated Loser in Yeb!
The GOP has only run amnesty candidates since the last amnesty, it was no accident.
Manchurian Candidate..
Yes
Erick Erickson is an asshole.
Imagine being the CEO of Exxon Mobil and a US Senator essentially calls you a Russian stooge. Rubio needs to be destroyed.
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