Democrats are marching and protesting the wannabe dictator. What are the Republicans doing?

[kentuck]

At last count, there were 292 Repubs in the House and Senate.

260 of them have been cold dead silent.

Those that are silent can only be assumed to be in agreement with Trump.

[Chasstev365]

1. Yep, and we need to make them own this!

[manicraven]

2. They're cowards waiting to see if this escalates or not. If it does and goes badly, they'll then

jump on the bandwagon, kind of like Nazis did AFTER their defeat when they stated they didn't approve of Hitler's "final solution" or they didn't "participate" or they didn't "know."

[Warpy]

3. Most of them are quietly shitting their pans

because it's dawned on them just what a repeal of the ACA would mean for their careers as government leeches.

They are also terrified to voice any disagreement at all, their whole lives are focused on lockstep loyalty to party and spitefulness against anyone outside it.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Trying to figure which way the wind is blowing...

I'm sure, after all the years of apathy, actually seeing folks get out and demonstrate about liberal issues has given them pause, at least.

Hopefully, they are starting to worry how safe their "cockamamie jobs" are. Lots of red counties not so ideological that they want to lose their healthcare for "freedom." At least, I hope.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. That phrase

'cockamamie jobs' sounds somewhat familiar. Did that come from a quote?

[Wounded Bear]

6. Most famous use is from Blazing Saddles....

On second viewing, I guess he said "phony baloney" jobs.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. I wouldn't have remembered where I'd heard it

but I knew I'd heard it somewhere.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Edited above post...

actually it was "phoney baloney" jobs.

Sorry.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Still like it

[Chellee]

11. It's French. By way of Brooklyn... sort of

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-coc1.htm

[randr]

7. Hiding in church pretending to follow the Golden Rule