Trump sticks it to GOP

[DonViejo]

At a time of rising tensions with his own party, the president makes it clear in a thundering Phoenix speech that he's not ready to make nice with fellow Republicans.

By ALEX ISENSTADT 08/23/2017 02:19 AM EDT

PHOENIX — President Donald Trump put the Republican Party on notice on Tuesday evening — implicitly attacking two Republican senators on their home turf, threatening a government shutdown over his border wall, and demanding that senators kill the filibuster because it's impeding his agenda.

In an often-angry speech here that stretched on for well over an hour, the president returned to many of the same targets he went after on the campaign trail. He spent more than a half-hour lambasting the media, which he accused of misrepresenting his comments after the Charlottesville violence. Yet he also turned his weaponry on fellow Republicans, going after Arizona's two GOP senators who've been a thorn in his side.

Trump did not name Sen. John McCain or Sen. Jeff Flake by name in his remarks — he joked that his aides pleaded with him not to mention the senators explicitly — but it was unmistakable who he was talking about. Over and over, Trump noted that Senate Republicans were "one vote away" from passing a bill to repeal Obamacare. The crowd at the Phoenix Convention Center immediately began jeering McCain, a longtime Trump critic who delivered the tie-breaking vote that sank the overhaul bill.

The 80-year-old McCain is being treated for brain cancer.

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[SHRED]

1. He's a liability

He's like millstone tied to the GOP and they are entering deep water.

[cilla4progress]

3. Your lips to goddess' ears!

The best we can hope for. Cannibalizing the GOP. Take it down from within. And the entire crime family syndicate with it.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. That Trumpy turns against his own GOP was predicted well before he was nominated.

People of wider notoriety than myself predicted it. I did as well. Trumpy's pattern of vengeful reactions to anyone not fully supporting him was well known and is a life-long pattern for Trumpy. He was destined to insult and dismiss EVERY politician who disagrees with him. He was destined to insult GOP leadership. It was all quite predictable. That McConnell took so long to understand this speaks of McConnell's own lust for power that got in the way of common sense. But McConnell's flirtation with Russian money will eventually be exposed, as will Paul Ryan's dance with Kislyak. In essence, Trumpy will destroy the GOP leadership and himself to boot.

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