Who Do The Republicans In Congress Work For?

It's a simple question.  

or

Lowering The Bar/Standards For POTUS

Lowering The Bar/Standards For The President Of The United States

*Note: Robert Mueller could NOT indict Trump because the Department of Justice guidelines/rules/regulations preclude indictment of a “sitting President”, meaning that while he is IN office, Trump can’t face any criminal charges, only political ones, such as an Impeachment Inquiry.  He may have wanted to indict, but, he simply wasn't allowed to go there.  Many/Most Republicans seem to forget this extremely vital point.

*Another point to ponder:  Why do these Republicans, specifically, feel the need to “protect the President (Donald Trump)”, rather than uphold their oath of office? He doesn’t need protection, per se; he has the Secret Service for that.  He needs oversight from Congress, not protection. Checks and Balances, you’ve heard that term.  

Republicans in the House and Senate have forsaken their oaths of office and Trump played them like a bass fiddle.  Got ‘em hook, line and sinker. 

History will not be on their side, those Republicans, when it is written years from now.  It will compare and contrast them to previous seat-holders who chose country over party.  Some, the more desperate ones, have taken to lashing out at Democrats across the aisle, even resorting to one of Trump’s signature moves, name-calling.  It’s pretty shameful.

Three co-equal branches of government:  Judicial (SCOTUS), Legislative (House & Senate) and Executive (President and his/her Cabinet).   

The important part – Co-equal. All on the same plane.

As the Impeachment Inquiry begins in November 2019, the Republicans have decided among themselves that want/need to distract from the proceedings because they’ve run out of steam feebly attempting to defend the indefensible from Trump.  “Look over here”, “It’s boring”, “What about _____?”, and so on. If the Republicans in the House and Senate from January 20, 2017 until now, mid-November 2019, had provided and insisted upon oversight of the Executive Branch, we would not be enduring an Impeachment Inquiry… but, they were so thrilled to get this guy, Donald J. Trump, Sr. into office, they almost wet themselves.

*UPDATE -

Donald J. Trump officially Impeached by the House, December 18, 2019

The military aid issued to the Ukraine, about $400 million (in U.S. taxpayer dollars) had already been approved by Congress, so this notion that Trump or any President could withhold that aid for any reason, is preposterous, ridiculous, and again, shows someone (at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, IN the Oval Office) still doesn’t get, He/Trump doesn’t have absolute power over the U.S. Government. He can’t simply keep that money or withhold it for any reason(s).

The Republicans have lowered their standards so low that they see the Impeachment hearings as an entire waste of everyone’s time.

They don’t care what Trump and his cronies/buddies/surrogates say or do, as long as Donald J. Trump remains in office and in power.  It’s odd, strange and very weird that more Republicans/Conservatives in The House and Senate don’t speak out against Trump, not on Twitter or otherwise online, but in front of television camera publicly.  Again, makes you wonder.

By late November 2019, it is painfully obvious that the Republicans know their arguments in regards to “protecting” Trump and that he "did nothing wrong since the Ukraine got their aid" are dissolving faster than an ice cube on a hot stove, leaving them soaking in a swamp of their own making.   

Boo hoo, right?

Ah, but wait, dear reader... there's more!  More you say?!?
These are the goose-stepping, brown-nosing Republicans who refuse to give up Trump (not a complete listing):

Jim Jordan – kind of a whiny bitch, who insists on disruption. Definitely a Republican Snowflake.  

Lindsey Graham 
Mike Pence
Mick Mulvaney

Mike Pompeo
William “Chunky” Barr 
Brett “Keep-It-In-Your-Pants/Party Boy” Kavanaugh

Mitch McConnell

Paul Ryan

Ron Johnson
John Kennedy

Chris Stewart

Jared Kushner - nepotism

Ivanka Trump - nepotism

Donald Trump, Jr. - nepotism

Eric Trump - nepotism

Matt Gaetz

Steve Scalise

Mark Meadows

Bradley Byrne

Rob Portman

Mac Thornberry

Stephen Miller – Good ole, goose-steppin’ KKK, white supremacist

Kellyanne Conway – aging, acidic Barbie

Roy Moore – Rootin’ Tootin’ Yosemite Sam Moore

Ted Cruz – Lizard boy

Cindy Hyde-Smith – “You invite me to a hangin’, I’d be in the front row.”

John Ratcliffe

Rudy Guiliani – Former NYC Mayor, current flunky/whipping boy for Trump. Love those horse-mouth dentures, Rudy!

Devin Nunes – Trump’s “waterboy” – Why does Devin care so much about “protecting” Trump?  What’s in it for Devin personally over his country?  Gotta wonder…

Elise Stefanik – kind of whiny like Rep. Jordan. Harvard grad w/degree in Government. It seems as though, during the Impeachment hearings, she would deliberately, consistently, interrupt the Committee Chair (Rep. Schiff) with points that she already knew were out of order, based on the rules she was citing.  Sort of like she had the need to be recognized just to get her point(s) on the official hearings’ record, valid or not.

Mike Turner – On State Of The Union (CNN - Nov. 17, 2019), refused to answer questions directly related to Amb. Yovanovitch’s testimony and Trump’s Tweet regarding witness intimidation. Refused, flat-out.   Seems cowardly to me.  But why would he do that?  Kind of a Republican Snowflake.

Chris Stewart

John Thune

Shelley Moore Capito

Roy Blunt

John Barrasso

Sarah Huckabee Sanders – former White House Press Secretary

Stephanie Grisham – current White House Press Secretary

Mike Conaway

-------------------------

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "Republicans are in denial about the facts.  The sad tragedy of all of this is the behavior of the President and the defense of that behavior by the Republicans."

From CNN.com

Why Are Republicans So Slow Regarding Trump?

Why Is It Taking Republicans So Long 
To Figure Out Who Donald Trump REALLY Is?

It amazes me how easy it is for Republicans/Right Wingers/Conservatives/some Evangelicals to look the other way, turn the other cheek, simply walk away and even try to defend Donald Trump.   

Simply astonishing!

Have they just forgotten all of his lies, backroom deals, and shady behaviors over the past 4 decades?   

Have they been asleep at the wheel?  Unconscious? Or just flat-out stupid?

Granted, no, not ALL of Trump’s past behaviors have been illegal, but most have been highly questionable.  (“I never settle a lawsuit.” – Yeah, he does. Regularly.)

More and more of them, Republicans, are either

a) leaving the Republican party, 

b) leaving politics altogether, 

c) leaving Washington D.C., 

d) switching parties to become Democrats (Yay for that!), or 

e) speaking out against him… finally.

And this wasn’t an overnight Exodus either.  

It was a very slow moving train, sort of like an old, ancient white Bronco caravan fleeing town via the L.A. freeway.

But again, why now? 

Yes, rhetorical questions obviously, but maybe something to examine in more depth?

It just really looks like Republicans haven’t been paying attention to their God, er, um, Trump.

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

When I think of snowflakes, I think of winter, a cool, crispness in the air, and those little, delicate pieces of frozen wonder gently floating down to Earth from the Heavens.

Not anymore.  Now, it’s become a very divisive, derogatory remark mostly coming from conservative Republicans calling out Democrats, liberal Democrats, for not having a strong backbone or stomach for politics in our country at the moment.

And while I do find it offensive, I also understand that, yes, politics is no place for wimps.  You have to have balls to play in the game; you just have to.  The flip side of that is, if you are the person calling someone a Snowflake, you do NOT get to decide what the other person is sensitive about.  Think of "Snowflake" as a racial slur.  That is how people feel about it, and you don't get to tell them how to feel.  It's NOT your place to do that.

What the Republicans, conservatives, don’t understand is that the very same thing can be said of them (Snowflakes) when a Democratic president is in the White House.  And, it’s common knowledge that they (Republicans) were extremely hard and harsh to President Obama.  He was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but he was pretty damn close. 

No one in that office has or ever will be perfect.  It’s an imperfect world in which we live.  Was he better at the job that his predecessors? Some of them, yes. 

The current guy, # 45, Trump, makes no bones about how perfect he is.  Everything, if you believe him and his White House, everything is great, perfect, the best, so BIG, and so beautiful.  “You’ll get tired of winning”, he said during the campaign.  I’m tired of winning, and it’s been less than a year.

Ritz "Snowflake" Crackers

I saw this box of Ritz crackers, which I love because you can taste the butter in the soft, crunchy crispness of each cracker.  They are even shaped and imprinted with snowflakes.

So, I saw this, and it got me thinking about that term, Snowflakes.  Am I a Snowflake?  About some things, yes, we all are.  Those things that we hold dear to our hearts:  birthdays, holidays, precious childhood memories.  Absolutely, we’re all a bit of a Snowflake. 

I think, for me at least, the thing is that we don’t HAVE TO use that term aimed at one another in a mean-spirited way.

Maybe it could just be used to describe snow falling from the sky in winter?

Please?