Morning Bits: Republicans have only themselves to blame

[DonViejo]

By Jennifer Rubin
June 21 at 7:45 AM

Don’t they deserve to be humiliated? “By separating families at the border, President Trump couldn’t have handed Republicans in Congress a more politically perilous situation to deal with if he tried. And just as Republicans in Congress had decided to stick their necks out to fix his manufactured crisis, Trump pulled the plug on everything.”

A few women deserve to be at the table as well. “Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) on Wednesday slammed a photo of President Trump discussing migrant family separations with only white members of Congress, telling Trump to consult someone of different ethnicity before enacting immigration reform.” This truly is the angry white male party.

Pope Francis delivers a deserved rebuke to Trump. “I believe that you cannot reject people who arrive. You have to receive them, help them, look after them. . . . Some governments are working on it, and people have to be settled in the best possible way, but creating psychosis is not the cure.”

The administration deserves all the blame it is getting for setting off a trade war — with our allies. “The European Union will start imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on Friday, in response to President Donald Trump’s duties on steel and aluminum imports from the bloc. American exports worth €2.8 billion ($3.2 billion) will be subject to tariffs immediately and Brussels will ultimately increase its rebalancing measures to €6.4 billion, the EU’s executive arm—the European Commission—said in a statement Wednesday.”

He will deserve part of the credit if they win. “Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind the Democratic campaign to take control of the House of Representatives this year, directing aides to spend tens of millions of dollars in an effort to expel Republicans from power.”

The GOP deserves to lose decent people who put country over party. “Veteran Republican campaign strategist Steve Schmidt said Wednesday he is renouncing the GOP — in part because of what he calls President Donald Trump’s unethical and corrupt behavior, but more because the party’s leadership in Congress has failed to hold Trump to account.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/06/21/morning-bits-republicans-have-only-themselves-to-blame/?utm_term=.8a02bb455d9c

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Slowly but surely folks are seeing what a bunch of hypocrites repugs truly are...

Nothing in their cred pertains to country, what so ever. It's all about starvation wages paid to workers (if workers get paid anything at all), and zero taxes paid by the 1%.

What really gets me is that these folks making so much money did so in an environment made safe by the taxes that you and I paid for, to have fire & police departments, and other governmental services that secured a safe and secure environment that allowed the flourishing of the retail environment in the USA.

It angers me that our reward(s) by rump and the like is to have our social security nets dismantled or reduced, governmental services curtailed, and other such actions that negatively impacts all of us. And they (the repugs) claim that these services are bankrupting the US when in fact, their trillion dollar tax cuts to the 1% is a leading cause of deficit spending today.