Sensing a sea change today....

[Binders Keepers]

How long before Ryan and others abandon ship, invoke Amendment 25, Section 4, and cut their losses? One week?

[DURHAM D]

1. They won't do a damn thing.

They are Republicans.

[madaboutharry]

2. Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman,

today accused his fellow republicans of suffering from The Stockholm Syndrome. It may take a while before they see the light.

[AgadorSparticus]

3. Oh wow. I can see that, actually.

[JenniferJuniper]

4. Steele's being too sensible..

they'll use this idiot to get through everything they've ever dreamed about and dump him later. And then they'll try to blame any fallout on the madman the stupid American public voted in...

[KPN]

12. Yup -- and if it weren't for Obama and Hillary ...

none of this ever would have happened.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

14. They'll not only fulfill all their hearts' desires, they'll make up new ones

After all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to remake the United States in their image.

[VespertineIconoclast]

16. Saddest, but truest statement I've seen thus far about the current situation. n/t

[Binders Keepers]

5. Well, Fox is still flogging Trump for all they're worth.

But who will give the order to Fox to turn on him? For when that happens, he's dead meat--or "carnage."

[Lint Head]

6. They are cowards and will have to be forced to walk the plank.

[Lucinda]

7. They will use him as long as possible, then once they have enough on him to

keep the Trump crazies from going postal, they will install Pence...unless they want to tie him to Trump, then they move Ryan into place.

[global1]

8. I Still Say Trump Knows Where The Skeletons Are Buried With The Repugs....

It they try and take him out through impeachment - he'll take them down with him. He'll spill the beans.

And what if he doesn't know where the skeletons are buried you ask - well he'll make something up and lie about it and still take them down with him.

I'm saying we're stuck with Trump for 4 years. The Repugs can't take a chance - they're between a rock and a hard place.

[WinkyDink]

9. I think, through his own wheeling-dealing, he knows things, too.

[Binders Keepers]

10. I'm going to take a contrarian view.

I see this thing building exponentially. I don't think the Republicans can take the heat much longer. I say he's gone by February 15 at the latest, but more likely by February 3rd. Trump himself is about ready to crack. Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking talking.

[NanceGreggs]

11. Not long.

The Republicans had a No. 1 choice - Pence - and the only thing that stands between Trump in the WH and Pence in the WH is Trump himself.

The GOP will support Trump until the shit hits the fan about Trump's Russian ties - at which point they will dump him, declaring themselves true patriots who would never condone such traitorous behaviour.

Enter President Pence - who will be just as anti-Ruskie as the Republican base has always been.

Mission accomplished.

[manicraven]

13. I think they're very calculating as in so many of their wicked ways...

Not sure what they're waiting for actually, but there must be a method to their madness, so to speak. Some think they'll use tRump to get what they want and then cut him loose, but I'm not sure why Pence wouldn't provide everything they want, so I'm wondering what's the holdup? During his first week, tRump has demonstrated he's nuts and numerous people in the media and elsewhere have been questioning his sanity. I think they should just do it and get it over with. They know he's an ignorant, dangerous, vainglorious fool.

[Imajika]

15. What data backs this up?

Looking at RCP averages his approve/disapprove is not in free fall yet. Republicans don't care what CNN or MSNBC say, and all the reliable GOP outlets are backing Trump to the hilt.

All that matters is who the GOP thinks will come out and vote, and our midterm track record isn't too great.

Trump ran the most silly, outrageous, clownish campaign ever and he still won the electoral vote. Why would anyone assume at this point the GOP would abandon him - as far as most of them are concerned he is creating a new normal that allows the Republicans to get through the most radical parts of their agenda that they'd only dreamed about previously.

[jmg257]

17. Why? Because they are not getting anything they want?