GOP Strategist: "The personal disgust for Trump within Senate is really remarkable"

[kpete]

Trump attacks on McConnell won’t improve his weak showing in Congress
Since Ronald Reagan's 1980 election propelled a political realignment, every new president has scored a major early legislative victory except one – Trump.
History shows a new president's best opportunity for big victories lies in his opening months, when the flush of electoral victory maximizes White House power.
Trump has not only failed to win repeal of what became Obamacare, but he has made no progress at all on other top legislative objectives.

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Trump has not only failed to win repeal of what became Obamacare, but he has made no progress at all on other top legislative objectives. The White House has not even proposed either tax reform details or an infrastructure plan.

No wonder a dyspeptic new president has spent part of his summer vacation stewing, and casting blame on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. That won't help reverse his fortunes this fall.

Republicans have already shown diminished patience with Trump's behavior – by turning toward bipartisan health care legislation, for example, despite the president's demand that they try again to repeal Obamacare. They've warned Trump not to fire special counsel Robert Mueller as the former FBI director's investigation into Russia's election interference poses mounting danger to the White House.

On tax cuts, Republicans face the same internal divisions that sunk them on health care. With 2018 midterm elections looming, however, Trump's criticism of McConnell and others won't preclude action.


https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/10/trump-attacks-on-mcconnell-wont-improve-his-weak-showing-in-congress.html

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[workinclasszero]

1. The man baby-in-charge is pissed because Turtle and Ayn Ryan were supposed

to do all the heavy lifting while his fat ass was on the golf course watching the millions of sweet taxpayer $$$$ roll into his crime families accounts.

I hope the thug party hates Trumps guts then they will know how the rest of the country feels about FAIL 45!

[ProudLib72]

2. And yet they perservered!

Because let's face it, bad old tRump is better than admitting he is insane and his base is made up of white supremacists. As belligerent and bellicose and blustering as he is, the GOPers want his voters to stay on their team. (Team tRump is the only team spelled with an 'I').

[Downtown Hound]

3. Then stop kissing his ass you blithering idiots. n/t

[pangaia]

4. Pence looks like....I can't say it.But that's what he looks like.

[NightWatcher]

5. If only there were a mechanism in place for the Senate to remove.....

[gratuitous]

6. Really

It's so sad that the Senate has to just sit there and take it. Helpless little boys, every one of them in the Senate majority.

[kentuck]

7. Sounds like they are trying to have it both ways?

They say they are disgusted but they still support him in public? They seem to be covering all their bases - those Repubs that don't care for Trump and the base that loves him?

[flotsam]

8. And yet not a single one does "remark"...N/T

[Gothmog]

9. Trump really knows how to make friends

[tanyev]

10. What's remarkable is how they can be so personally disgusted and still

refuse to do ONE.DAMN.THING about it.

[smirkymonkey]

11. +1000

Sniveling cowards! All of them. I can't even express my disgust.

[haveahart]

12. They should have been that disgusted during the 2016 campaign.

[lindysalsagal]

13. Empty words. Let's see some action in congress.

Otherwise, the song is called "Cry me a river."