Shoveling Sh*t for Donald Trump, Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue Get Covered in It
As the president provides a defining moment of national humiliation and disgrace, two Republican senators diminish the authority of their office to feebly try and cover for him.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
01.15.18 4:21 PM ET
“I don’t recall” is the two-foot putt of politics—a gimme. No one’s going to hassle you over it. It could be total bullshit and everybody knows it’s total bullshit, but if you say I can’t recall, nobody can really challenge it, so you get away with it, and sooner or later, usually sooner, the world moves on to other matters.
So GOP senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue could easily have left it at that. They didn’t recall President Trump saying “shithole,” which was their original position last week. The country would have rolled its collective eyes but granted them their gimme. But on Sunday, they decided the Republican Party hasn’t done enough sucking up to and lying for Donald Trump, so they went on the attack. Now, they said, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin was lying. Trump never said “shithole.” Perhaps “shithouse.” Ah, well that’s different! As the Times put it, their “recollections appeared to have sharpened.”
I suspect that what actually “sharpened” were two things. First, their knowledge that they have this big immigration bill they sponsored together, called the RAISE Act, that would cut legal immigration roughly in half over 10 years, that they want Trump to sign. And second, their realization that they’re dealing with a man so fragile and vain that if they want him to stay interested in their bill, they’d better lie for him, because lying is what Trump demands.
The bill, as the Beast’s Jackie Kucinich and Andrew Desiderio reported last August when it was dropped, has almost no hope of passage. As they pointed out, it would need to clear the 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, which isn’t happening. All Democrats will likely oppose it. Even a handful of Senate Republicans are likely to be against it. Lindsey Graham came out against it immediately, and others made unsupportive noises.
But the bill is only part of the story. The other and more important part—maybe not more important to Cotton and Perdue, but certainly more important to the republic—is the way Trump keeps going lower and lower and lower, and the way Republican elected officials keep shoveling out his path for him.
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"Brand loyalty" and particular colors of Starburst are the way to curry favor with the Dotard. 
