Posted on 10/17/2019 5:21:30 AM PDT by rintintin
Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs spoke with House Republican whip Steve Scalise tonight and confronted him on why he (and so many other Republicans) voted with the Democrats to rebuke President Donald Trump‘s Syria withdrawal decision.
Scalise was at the White House meeting this afternoon that top Democrats left after what they described as a “meltdown” from President Donald Trump.
Scalise said Trump laid out his plan to contain ISIS terrorists “because we don’t want them to run loose.”
Dobbs teed off about how Republicans need to do more to back up the president, particularly on the issue of “international police actions,” asking, “Isn’t it time to start following this president? I don’t understand it. The Republicans — I would think you guys would say, ‘You know, Nancy Pelosi is for it, I sure as Hell better be against it!'”
Scalise touted what Republicans have done in supporting the president and opposing Pelosi.
At one point, “Do you think the voters, congressman, are going to ask a congressman running for reelection what did you do for the president at the moment at which he needed the greatest support, that he needed people standing shoulder to shoulder with him instead of voting with the damn Democrats on a resolution…”
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They realize they can’t control him. So don’t be surprise if they conspire with Nancy and Chuck to remove him
Fox news this am ticker tape said Sen Graham said that if ISIS grows again then the President will have American blood on his hands.
So plan T on the list and to help those who hate the President, the coup supporters, FBI, CIA, State Dept, DEMS, RINO’S will ensure illegal arms and support go to ISIS to ensure a failure for the President.
What kind of democracy is this where representatives can just vote willy-nilly for what they think is right rather than what the leader wants?
No, Lindsey, islam will have blood on it’s hands.
Until the actual enemy is named, it will never be fought.
Of course ISIS is going to grow. But hey have caliphate a all over the world. They are crossing our open borders and waiting for their time.
Fox news this am ticker tape said Sen Graham said that if ISIS grows again then the President will have American blood on his hands.
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Is this the same girl who wants anybody and everybody to be able to walk into the USA without restrictions?
PRAY like you’ve never prayed before!
And then CALL WRITE EMAIL TWEET the Turncoat Congress who voted against our President!!!!!
Lindsey has blood on his hands for not closing our borders to Ms-13 not to mention thousands of drunk drivers
There must be very big money - or very big blackmail - to make Lindsey such a fervent supporter of endless wars abroad and open borders at home
Create(using American treasure and military force)borders where there are none(Kurdistan). And fail entirely to defend America’s own borders from invasion.
Signed, your friends the GOP and the Deep State.
Eff ‘em all.
Well, at least we know much better who is and who is not owned by the defense contractors now.
More surprises there than I would have thought. The Senate is likely the same.
They’re pissed at losing a market.
> What kind of democracy is this where representatives can just vote willy-nilly for what they think is right rather than what the leader wants? <
You make a good point. A decent argument can be made for pulling the troops out. And a decent argument can be made for keeping the troops in place. So this is one issue where I’m okay with GOP congressmen voting their consciences.
I’d be much less forgiving when it comes to things like controlling illegal immigration.
Yep, it is either profitable interests in the MIC, or Oil, or both. With Steve Scalise it is more about oil companies who have huge interests in his state and the middle east.
Way to miss the point.
Is this the level of pro war neocon trolls the GOP Briefing Room fourm is sending over here? I guess since it election season, you clowns are now migrating back here, acting like we dont remember screen names from 2016.
Scalise doesn’t know it yet, but chances for appropriations for his district just went to zero.
He will wear this one.
Fox news this am ticker tape said Sen Graham said that if ISIS grows again then the President will have American blood on his hands.
Senator Graham and the open borders loving GOP already have Kate Steinle’s blood on their hands. I see how much he cares. Not at all.
Graham is too arrogant to see how badly this ends for the GOP. A significant chunk of the current GOP base is going to have little interest in supporting the GOP post Trump. That is a lot of election losses for the GOPe. I don’t think they really care given that Romney preferred Hillary Criminal and her SCOTUS to those of us voted for him.
LG always manages to find a way to disappoint us.
I remember him being more loyal to the Fraud than to President Trump.
He will wear this one.“
The problem with your theory is that two thirds of the House Republicans - including their entire leadershipn(McCarthy, Liz Cheney and others) also voted with Pelosi to condemn Trump
They’re answering to big donors
Nothing will happen to them.
But this sends a signal that the party establishment is not supporting Trump - they want war not peace - so he may not be safe from being ousted by the Senate
Can you say President Pence? That may be the situation by January
My thought exactly. I wonder whether Lou Dobbs realizes how cultist he sounds to normal people.
The move is supported by the publuc, who wants an end to endless wars. The pubs will come around eventually.
I don’t think they really care”
I think you’re right. They have lobbying jobs and board memberships lined up. A lot more lucrative that a congressional paycheck
Don’t be surprised if 20 Republican senators join with the Dems to oust Trump
Yesterday’s vote on Syria in the House shows that the GOP establishment is against him
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