I gotta say, it's about time.

[MarcATL]

Absolutely - get back to me in 4 years.

Don't have the confidence to wage that bet now huh?

 

[Zincwarrior]

So, when Democrats object to anything Trump does, it's solely from lofty, high-minded concern for the Constitution and the Republic.

When Republicans object, it's because they're concerned about getting re-elected.

That cover it?

Cannot help but notice that you did not refute the OP.

 

[BlackSand]

She'd never get elected.

.

Sources I have at the Unofficial Classical Liberal News Service ... Would agree with you ...
And suggest that if she ever got the Republican Nomination ... In light of her support for, and from, the Establishment ...
It probably wouldn't be with the intent to win the election in the first place ...

I mean seriously ... It's not like former Senators McCain and Romney ...
Both former Republican Candidates for President ... Won their elections ...
And in favor of the Establishment sweetheart ... Former President Obama.
.​

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Collins doubled down during an interview with Politico Wednesday, going as far as suggesting that the Trump administration might be breaking the law with its recent DOGE actions.

There is no ‘might’ – Trump is in fact violating the law, among others.

And unfortunately Collins remain part of a tiny minority of Republicans who will acknowledge Trump is violating the law – the rest are cowards.

 

[daveman]

Cannot help but notice that you did not refute the OP.

Well, then, I guess it's right, isn't it? Isn't that what you want to hear? A Republican leading the fight against Dictator Trump (the only kind of Republican you like), bravely defending her Democrat masters the Republic?

 

[LeftofLeft]

America is going to reward Trump accordingly.

Just wait until the truth hits them in the pocket.

Hit US in the pocket? We are still paying for Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

There is no ‘might’ – Trump is in fact violating the law, among others.

And unfortunately Collins remain part of a tiny minority of Republicans who will acknowledge Trump is violating the law – the rest are cowards.

I realize that the DNC has programmed you in the usual talking points, but I had not realized that they also imbued you with extensive legal knowledge as well.

 

[hadit]

Congress had decades to do it the quiet way and did absolutely nothing. Had the ones squealing the loudest now done their jobs, they wouldn't be facing what they are.

 

[toobfreak]

gotta say, it's about time.​

Senate Republican Acknowledges That This Might All Be Very Illegal

Oh come now Bergy! We all know that if it wasn't illegal, you democrats wouldn't be at all interested in doing it first, or at least copying it! After all, where do you think we learned how to do illegal stuff? I mean, everything Joey and Kammy did was illegal, I mean, when they did anything at all.

 

[Lesh]

Senate Republican Acknowledges That This Might All Be Very Illegal

While she has done little more than state facts, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is emerging as the only Republican member of Congress currently willing to call out the fact that Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s lawless DOGE crusade is stripping Republicans in the House and Senate of one of the main powers they possess as elected officials: to create agencies and fund the federal government.

Earlier this month, as TPM pressed Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill about Musk’s rampage — and got little but shrugs in response — Collins came forward to say she was “concerned” about the amount of power Trump had given the unelected billionaire. She warned then that many of DOGE’s actions — freezing congressionally allocated funds, firing government workers, probing sensitive taxpayer data — was “going to end up in court.”

Since then, no other Republicans have taken their rhetoric any further. A handful of Senate Republicans have subtly broken with the Trump administration to publicly discuss how important certain funds that have been frozen are to their constituents — like the handful who have been limply, publicly negotiating with the Trump administration to get back funding for crucial medical research in their state.

Collins doubled down during an interview with Politico Wednesday, going as far as suggesting that the Trump administration might be breaking the law with its recent DOGE actions.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where...nowledges-that-this-might-all-be-very-illegal

I knew it would take something like this. That is, I knew there would come a time when congressional Repubs started doing the calculus on whether their quiescent silence regarding the trump admin's daily outrages would cause concern for their own electability. Sorry Sue, you lost any pretense to respect long ago.

Not that they are standing on principle, or the many national security concerns, or objecting to trump saying he is the arbiter of whether he has broken the law. No, they just don't want any fallout to jeopardize their re-election. Getting rid of these spineless cowards would be a boon for the nation were it not for the certainty their replacements would be worse. As hard to imagine as that is.

She’s gutless

She was “concerned” about abortion rights too

 

[BlackSand]

She’s gutless

She was “concerned” about abortion rights too

.

Great ... So when she gets thrown under the bus ...
Everyone can count on you to run over her a few times ... Glad to see we can finally agree on something.

.​

 

[berg80]

So, when Democrats object to anything Trump does, it's solely from lofty, high-minded concern for the Constitution and the Republic.

When Republicans object, it's because they're concerned about getting re-elected.

That cover it?

I think I'd put it this way. It has taken the prospect of constituent backlash for Repubs to do what they should have been doing all along. Protecting the constitutional order against someone who aims to end it. As an aside........

As Trump Turns Toward Russia and Against Ukraine, Republicans Are Mum​

As President Trump makes an abrupt pivot toward Russia, upending generations of American foreign policy, he is also defying members of his own party in Congress, many of whom have spent their careers arguing for a hawkish stance against Moscow and strong backing for allies in Europe facing its most immediate threats.

But the response from Republicans on Capitol Hill has been muted, in some cases to the point of silence. There has been little G.O.P. pushback on Mr. Trump’s efforts to draw closer to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia or blame Ukraine as he seeks to bring a quick end to the war that began when Russia invaded the country.

While some Republicans have expressed dismay at Mr. Trump’s moves and statements, there has been no concerted effort to challenge him from G.O.P. leaders or senators who play pivotal roles in overseeing military and foreign policy in Congress.

As Trump Turns Toward Russia and Against Ukraine, Republicans Are Mum

Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Mac1958]

Getting rid of these spineless cowards would be a boon for the nation were it not for the certainty their replacements would be worse. As hard to imagine as that is.

Right now the only people on the freaking planet who can stop (or at least slow down) our move towards neofascism are the congressional Republicans. And that has ALWAYS been the case.

It's pretty much now or never. I don't see any indication that enough of them will act.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

America is going to reward Trump accordingly.

Just wait until the truth hits them in the pocket.

The truth is leftism has been hitting Americans in the pocket for decades.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

She’s gutless

She was “concerned” about abortion rights too

There is no such thing as abortion rights. Never has been.

 

[luiza]

Senate Republican Acknowledges That This Might All Be Very Illegal

Might .
A key word in the Troll Bot training manual .

 

[berg80]

Right now the only people on the freaking planet who can stop (or at least slow down) our move towards neofascism are the congressional Republicans. And that has ALWAYS been the case.

It's pretty much now or never. I don't see any indication that enough of them will act.

Agree completely. It is indeed a frightening prospect to think of the country's fate being in the hands MAGAists who couldn't even find it within themselves to object when Dear Leader released cop beating violent criminals from prison.

No politician in US history would even had contemplated, or politically survived, such an obscene act of injustice. But it's already been lost in a whirlwind of daily events that should have effectively ended trump's presidency.

 

[berg80]

There is no such thing as abortion rights. Never has been.

The cavalier way you folks disregard demonstrable reality is breathtaking.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Agree completely. It is indeed a frightening prospect to think of the country's fate being in the hands MAGAists who couldn't even find it within themselves to object when Dear Leader released cop beating violent criminals from prison.

No politician in US history would even had contemplated, or politically survived, such an obscene act of injustice. But it's already been lost in a whirlwind of daily events that should have effectively ended trump's presidency.

Awwwwww, poor Stalinberg.
All upset that the gargantuan deep state slush fund USAID has been SHUT DOWN.
40 BILLION FREAKING DOLLARS gone poof, out of reach.
Man, that's gotta sting hard.
I'm thinking that the Democratic Party can't exist without that giant pile of unaccountable CASH.
Such a shame, but IT'S ABOUT TIME and couldn't happen soon enough for these Marxist pirates hell bent on destroying this country from within.
Cry harder Stalinberg, Mac, and the rest of you demented avenger subverted demoralized Stalinist Marxist Leninist zombie ASSHOLES. This has been a long time coming, and you'll be a long time GONE.

GFY

 

[Rawley]

Don't have the confidence to wage that bet now huh?

Bet is on. Again, let's circle back in four years.