Republican Senator Bob Corker said, It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.
Trump replied with, Senator Bob Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement). He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal! Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!
One could make a quasi-reasonable claim along those lines… but it would require some somewhat nonstandard usage of the word “fault”.
“Fault” has two similar meanings:
(1) Ethical culpability
(2) Cause-and-effect, without ethical or moral judgment
It’s like someone who is involved in a car accident.
If they drank and drove and caused an accident, we say they are at fault.
If they were talking on their cell phone and caused an accident, we say they are at fault.
If they were doing absolutely nothing obviously objectionable, not speeding, not drinking, not texting, etc., but ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time when suddenly a super-corner-case road situation occurred, and an accident happens, well, the law might find them to be some percent legally culpable, legally “at fault”, but no sensible person is going to judge them negatively.
You could make a strong argument that, had Bernie just not existed in the first place, or had he never even hinted at running for president, then Hillary would have won. But… he was absolutely not doing anything morally or ethically wrong by running for president. He was acting well within established norms, and in fact had far more success than the vast, vast majority of non-establishment candidates. (Trump being the even more successful example, of course.) There’s no way he could or should have anticipated that, all of a sudden, in this election, the bog-standard “someone wins the primary, then the party unifies, and the hard feelings are left behind” would, quite possibly partly due to Russian influence, not happen nearly as much as it normally does. And even if that was something that could be anticipated, arguing that that somehow means that no one should ever even enter the race against the presumed frontrunner in a presidential primary is just ludicrous.
They are citizens thanks to certain laws being enacted over the years. The constitution determines who gets representation. Perhaps something along the way Canada and Australia treats their territories is the right thing to do.
Yeah, before we get on our knees to Bob Corker and start fellating him, don’t forget that he did vote to kill health care coverage for 25 million people just a couple of months ago.
You could replace “Corker” in that sentence with any member of the GOP and it’s still the same. Trump is not to blame for everything that is wrong with America right now. The GOP is enabling, supporting, and paying the legal bills for their whore.
It’s stuff like this that makes me not get today’s conservatives. I consider myself conservative but all I can do is look at these people and shake my head.
We need to be getting rid of subsidies to minimize government interaction with the market and for the love of god if the government is going to put its finger on the scale can we at least use it to try and deal with negative externalities that the market doesn’t address like global warming. A far more conservative proposal would be to take the dollar amount proposed and use it to subsidize retraining programs for nuclear and coal miners.
VP and complete tool Mike Pence spent roughly a quarter of a million dollars on a publicity stunt. He flew from Las Vegas on Sunday so he could walk in to an NFL game in Indianapolis with the sole purpose of being offended by players kneeling. He then left the game and flew to California for a fundraising event. Story here.
Also, the photo of him and his wife at the game yesterday was one he had previously tweeted from a game he attended back in 2014.