"It's Evil! It's Diabolical! It's Lemon Scented!"
Posted on 01/01/2021 9:19:53 PM PST by NobleFree
William Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and Defense secretary under former President Clinton, blasted GOP lawmakers challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election in a Thursday interview in which he suggested the formation of a new political party.
Cohen made the comments on CNN's "The Situation Room" while discussing Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) plans to object during Congress's counting of the Electoral College vote on Wednesday. Cohen called Hawley's actions "shameful" but warned that Republicans are just following President Trump's lead, calling him the party's "ringmaster."
"We have to remember that the current occupant of the White House is a ringmaster and what he expects to do is snap his whip and all the elephants hop up on chairs," Cohen said. "What they have to understand is he is going to continue to snap the whip whether he's in office or out of office. And every time they're going to have to jump up and sit on that stool to satisfy him and his supporters."
"He is always going to up the ante, he cannot be satisfied. There's nothing in him. There's no moral core, and so they are going to be extorted or bribed in order to avoid a primary in 2022 or 2024," Cohen continued.
Discussing the future of the Republican Party, Cohen noted a clear divide among GOP lawmakers, saying more centrist Republicans such as Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah) and Susan Collins (Maine) are very different from Trump allies. He asked: Where are the lawmakers "standing up for the rule of law?"
"For Trump it is pathological, for those who are jumping up to support him, it's diabolical and I don't think it's diabolically clever. I think they will find they will be hostage for the rest of their time in the Senate and going forward if they are only there to appease the Trumpsters," he said.
Frustrations flare as $2,000 checks blocked for fourth straight day Giuliani, Trump Jr. among guests at Mar-a-Lago New Year's party... "Maybe it's time for a new party. One that abides by the rule of law," Cohen concluded. "But also faithful to the people of this country, who vote to elect them."
Cohen's New Year's Eve comments come just days before Congress's counting of the Electoral College vote. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Wednesday he thinks as many as 100 Republicans could challenge the results.
The move is considered a long-shot bid to overturn the election, but more Republican lawmakers have come out in support of the effort.
Just as long as the logo is a lion, I’m in.
Wasn’t he Clinton’s super-RINO Defense Secretary?
Was he this upset when Sen. Boxer objected to Bush’s reelection in 2005? Or is it just appalling when a Republican objects?
Cohen supported George Bush’s invasion of Iraq, which led to the deaths of half a million people and the near wipeout of the country’s Christians, and the war is still going on with a cost now running past $3 trillion.
Trump has started no wars.
But Cohen finds Trump deplorable. What a tool.
“more centrist Republicans such as Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah) and Susan Collins (Maine)”
That’s a winner.
Me too!! Lion PERFECT logo!!!
So you agree with Cohen??? You are a RINO lover????
Something doesn't add up here.
Lion? hmm you may have something there.
“For Trump it is pathological, for those who are jumping up to support him, it’s diabolical.”
Not much demagogue here.
"It's Evil! It's Diabolical! It's Lemon Scented!"
He worries about Trump but has no problem serving Bill who repeatedly visited Epstein Island and took tons of money from foreign governments.
3 stooges.....
I suggest the possum for the symbol of the Republicans No Longer Even In Name party. It might occasionally hiss, but it usually just ends up playing dead to its opposition.
And as for President Trump being the ringmaster, the problem is too many bitter clowns left over from before 2016.
Let’s call it the RINO party.
So you agree with Cohen the RINO?
Why should we leave, they’re the ones that suck.
William Cohen and Newt Gingrich: it is better to be a “has been” than a “never was.”
Good question. Let us call it an amicable divorce like what happened with the Whig party.
Where are they now? They are the RINO/Uniparty faction.
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