Republicans drop their revolt against Trump on Syria

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/republicans-buckle-to-trump-on-syria-047618

GOP lawmakers are eager to avoid a breach with the president.

By BURGESS EVERETT, MELANIE ZANONA and MARIANNE LEVINE

10/15/2019 07:40 PM EDT

Updated: 10/15/2019 09:04 PM EDT

The Republican rebellion against President Donald Trump was short-lived.

Republicans unleashed perhaps their most aggressive outcry of the Trump era after he abandoned the U.S.’ Kurdish allies and ceded northeastern Syria to Turkey. But now GOP lawmakers are dialing back their direct criticism of the president — instead working with Trump, dinging Democrats and trying to move forward.

Senior Republicans are coordinating with Trump’s top officials to try to rein in Turkey with sanctions and protect the Kurds, and while they’re still dissatisfied with the situation, they’ve shifted gears away from confrontation with the president.

“I do appreciate what the administration has done against Turkey through executive action, but more to follow,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters Tuesday afternoon, after joining Trump for a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. “I appreciate the phone calls yesterday with Erdogan, I think [Trump] reached out in a good way to let Turkey know they needed a cease-fire right now.”

“I blame Turkey, but I look to President Trump to fix this,” Graham added later on Fox News.

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Of course they have... scumbaggery is the GOP's middle name, after all.

[beachbumbob]

1. bigger issue will be among US military members who clearly see the wholesale sellout of a long time

ally being left for the slaughter.

This will have an impact

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. As well as a dangerous evacuation of US troops, complete with helicopters

Not all of the disaffected military members will return to tRump's cult.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I don't understand how they can get up and walk and move around

because most ostensibly vertebrate animals need spines in order to do that. It's hard to put clothes on a jellyfish but somehow they've managed.

[CincyDem]

3. I'm sure trump reminded him of some pics hidden away in a vault somewhere. n/t

[Mike 03]

4. I really misjudged this. I thought for sure this disaster would be impossible

to escape for Republicans. The media needs to do its best to keep Syria front and center. I'll be twice as ashamed as I already am if this story is allowed to die out. We can't get "bored" about a genocide and mass murder of civilians that Trump absolutely green-lit.

[Volaris]

6. DC has got to be the only city in the country where the only difference between the

Elected reps and the hookers they fuck is what each wears to work.

In this case, trump's whores all wear suits, and legitimate working people wear miniskirts.