15th February 2017, 5:45 PM
So as the repercussions from Flynn being forced out because of his probably traitorous conversations with Russian government agents, continue to ripple, we have two major questions:
1) What will it take for the Republican Party, who so far are stonewalling investigations into Trump, to turn on him? The major pro-Russian name left is, of course, Trump's himself, but in order to remove him his party will need to act on it at some point.
2) So, are those Republicans blocking some investigations, an independent commission or prosecutor, investigations into his taxes, and more simply because they hope this will all blow over and they can get back to cutting taxes and gutting Obamacare, or are a lot of them also involved in the Russia-connections scandal personally as well?
Articles are now saying again that Trump people were in contact with Russia during the campaign, but we still don't know the details, and the Republican Party hopes we don't so that they can get their awful domestic agenda through. But with how fast things are moving, I don't see how they get that chance. Trump declaring war on our intelligence agencies may have happened because of his affinity for Russia, but it was a critical mistake which now is seriously damaging him, and that is sure to continue regardless of what Congressional Republicans say... so, how many will go down with him? The sooner they ditch him, the more will probably escape the now quite likely collapse of this administration, I'd think. But that also cripples their agenda, so they stonewall... until more bricks fall thanks to government leakers and intelligence agencies who want to stop having a Presidency that is leaking our secrets to the Kremlin. Related to that, this is a pretty good article on why this time the crime itself might actually be worse than the cover-up, which could explain part of why Trump is unwilling to explain anything about the Russia or Flynn scandals: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...hael-flynn
However...
3) What will it take for the Democratic Party's elected representatives to actually fight back and fully resist this administration? For example: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/15...reme-Court No, Dick Durbin, there is no way that this president should be allowed a Supreme Court pick without full, 100% resistance from our side.
Any Democrats who aren't going to resist as much as we need to deserve the angry messages from their constituents that they are sure to get. And no, asking Bernie to tell people to stop probably will not help. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost...story.html ) :p
1) What will it take for the Republican Party, who so far are stonewalling investigations into Trump, to turn on him? The major pro-Russian name left is, of course, Trump's himself, but in order to remove him his party will need to act on it at some point.
2) So, are those Republicans blocking some investigations, an independent commission or prosecutor, investigations into his taxes, and more simply because they hope this will all blow over and they can get back to cutting taxes and gutting Obamacare, or are a lot of them also involved in the Russia-connections scandal personally as well?
Articles are now saying again that Trump people were in contact with Russia during the campaign, but we still don't know the details, and the Republican Party hopes we don't so that they can get their awful domestic agenda through. But with how fast things are moving, I don't see how they get that chance. Trump declaring war on our intelligence agencies may have happened because of his affinity for Russia, but it was a critical mistake which now is seriously damaging him, and that is sure to continue regardless of what Congressional Republicans say... so, how many will go down with him? The sooner they ditch him, the more will probably escape the now quite likely collapse of this administration, I'd think. But that also cripples their agenda, so they stonewall... until more bricks fall thanks to government leakers and intelligence agencies who want to stop having a Presidency that is leaking our secrets to the Kremlin. Related to that, this is a pretty good article on why this time the crime itself might actually be worse than the cover-up, which could explain part of why Trump is unwilling to explain anything about the Russia or Flynn scandals: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017...hael-flynn
However...
3) What will it take for the Democratic Party's elected representatives to actually fight back and fully resist this administration? For example: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/15...reme-Court No, Dick Durbin, there is no way that this president should be allowed a Supreme Court pick without full, 100% resistance from our side.
Any Democrats who aren't going to resist as much as we need to deserve the angry messages from their constituents that they are sure to get. And no, asking Bernie to tell people to stop probably will not help. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost...story.html ) :p