Courtesy of Newsweek:Rep. Charlie Dent: “Before Donald Trump became president, the litmus test for Republicans was— it was really about the ideological purity and conformity. Now the litmus test has changed. The issue is loyalty to the man.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/ecuG9LWy2Q— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 24, 2017
One of President Donald Trump’s biggest critics from within the Republican Party, Rep. Charlie Dent (R–Pennsylvania), said the new “litmus test” for the GOP is who supports Trump, rather than the party’s “ideological purity and conformity.”
Speaking on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, the retiring Congressman said, “Now the litmus test is changed. The issue is loyalty to the man, to the president, and for some, loyalty's not enough, you have to be angry and aggrieved.
"Dent said that Trump was “a factor” in his decision to retire from Congress after the end of his term next year and assessed the state of the country as “paralyzed” by polarity.
“The polarization has reached the point of paralysis. There doesn't seem to be the bipartisan collaboration up front that we need on a lot of big issues,” he said.
If you think about it this is a fairly troubling assertion.
As much as we may have disagreed with the Republicans point of view on social issues, and what constitutes morality, at least they seemed to have a firm position.
But really all of that disappeared when Trump came on the scene, and now holier than thou evangelicals and big business supporting capitalists are eagerly supporting a thrice married, constantly bankrupt, possible Russian asset, as he destroys the credibility of the country they claim to love.
Have you ever had that moment when you thought you could not possibly lose any more respect for a group of people, and then suddenly discover that you can?
Possible Russian asset?
ReplyDeleteyou forgot to mention child rapist and in general women abusing, sexually and otherwise, possibly incestous asshole. why is he still in office? oh, yes, tax cuts. fine they got their tax cuts. time for trump to leave.NOW. it's not funny at all any more.
ReplyDeleteHow in the hell did it get to this point? What was it in the American character that led to the election of a morally deficient clown as their President? Since the day he took over the Oval Office, the steady deterioration of the number one country on earth has been astounding. Can we dare to hope that the nightmare will end early in the New Year?
ReplyDeleteInteresting question. I think at least part of the answer might be what LBJ said: "Give a man someone to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
DeleteHis base are for the most part uneducated, often unemployed, blue collar workers who feel they are getting some kind of revenge on the "elites".
These are the people they identify as their oppressors, and they are eager to ridicule and destroy these "not REAL Americans".
Perceived payback is what they are feeling, at least what I can tell from the Trump supporters I've read about and talked to.
Yep. "You will know them by their works." (I'm paraphrasing.) Then I avoid them. And I will work to vote them out.
ReplyDeleteRecord profits and income for everyone but the working americans. It is time to stop giving your money to this crowd of greed. Politicians, actors, sports, ceos are ALL overpaid. Their product, talent and character flawed. Their greed evil. STOP spending your money and bring them to a stop. Cut them off. NO spending in 2018. Send the message.
ReplyDelete"NO spending in 2018."
DeleteWell good luck keeping your jobs lol.
7:38
DeleteIt's the 'lol' dimbulb. You never get tired of trumpeting your stupidity do you? How many times have you posted your idiocy on just this thread? Fess up fool.
7:38
DeleteWith the tax scam bill being signed, we're not going to have as much money to spend. I, for one, am looking at things to reduce or eliminate. I may pull my bike out of storage, and eating out a lot less
Well you certainly can't afford to reduce your brain power anymore 9:12, as that is already running at the bare minimum.
DeleteAnd, again, I fail to grasp how ANY of them can call themselves Christian.
ReplyDeleteI find it so strange how the Republican Party has changed so drastically in the past few years. They are nothing what they used to champion. I ask Republican friends that are fiscally conservative what they make of this. They themselves don’t know what to make of it. This isn’t the Republican Party they’ve been supporters of, either. Trump is a wrecking ball, and that’s what some people wanted. He is indeed destroying what makes America great.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to swearing allegiance to The Constitution?
ReplyDeleteThere is no money in it. :/
DeleteWhat kind of ID-10-T demands a pledge of loyalty? Reminds me of when the pee pond took one for the queen dingbat.
ReplyDeleteThey love their messiah. He embodies the sociopathy, greed, racism, and lack of charitably that define their character. They feel a kinship at a visceral level. They often cloak themselves in religiosity so they can feel they are 'good'. I refer to them as pinheads.
ReplyDeleteCheck out your friends, Americans. If you have Republican ones, ask if they voted for Trump.
ReplyDeleteI have a couple that did and actually said they still support him, which blew my mind! Needless to say, my respect for them is gone which has affected the friendship.
I'm an older senior too. What a change our country is going through. It's frightening!
I could have written everything you said.
DeleteAbsolutely, 6:51 AM, I have done this as well. You think you know someone, well, in three words "I support Trump," you've told me EXACTLY who you are down deep.
DeleteI will never apologize for it either.
lol. Stupid to lose friends over politicis.
DeleteI have learned that several of my relatives (Canadian) are Trump supporters. They could not vote for him, of course, but they were overjoyed when he was sworn in as President. Luckily, we are not that close and there is no need to deal with their ignorance.
Delete7:37
DeleteWow! You really are dim. Politics speak to our core values child.
No they don't 7:47, only if you let politicians and increasingly partisan political parties make you believe that. child? lol.
DeleteOk loser.
Time for your meds ^ kiddo.
DeleteI try to be very open and accepting of different political views, even those I can't fathom to understand being ok with - but for me, Trump and this current republican party/administration transcends politics. This isn't political anymore. This is a lack of human decency, an abomination of the core values that our country has always embraced across the aisle.
DeleteWhen Trump and Pence fall, the enablers of those two should face the consequences. Devin Nunez should be charged with collusion. Everyone who didn't speak out are traitors.
ReplyDeletelol.
DeleteHey. Lol. How's Russia doing?
DeleteOh right. They said it's ok.
DeleteUh. You know they lie right?
Hate to find out they tossed you down a mineshaft. Shrug.
STOP RETIRING
ReplyDeleteDo you think the Congress men and women retiring because of the current Putin puppet who is currently the president is the right thing to do?
I don't!
By quitting the orange puppet is winning by driving out his enemies.
Now Trump has less opposition in Washington DC when he does things that are financially good for his family and not in the best interest of the American people.
All these politicians quitting because of Trump should not quit and build a coalition across the aisle to oppose and impeach Trump.
Ewww, loyalty, mafia. Disgusting usa.
ReplyDeleteHump that money baby. Haha.
DeleteThey are an embarrassment
to humanity. Corruption is a thing of the past. Growup
Trump is worried about PeePee tape.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/945646491955290113
Every part of the dossier that's presently confirmable has been confirmed, and much has already been found indicating future confirmation of that which isn't presently confirmable. This tweet is an attempt to undercut the inevitable future confirmation of nearly the full dossier.
...5/ Hillary Clinton had *nothing to do with* the information that ended up being in that dossier. She had nothing to do with that dossier getting to the FBI. She had nothing to do with that dossier getting to Congress. She had nothing to do with that dossier getting to the media.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/945684110365921280
Whatever you do, don’t retweet this analysis I did of the Trump-Russia Dossier. It will ruin Trump’s day & make him absolutely furious.
DeleteOn second thought, retweet the F out of it. The Dossier & Christopher Steele are more credible than Trump’ll ever be.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/945661347429265413
The Spy Who Wrote the Trump-Russia Memos: It Was “Hair-Raising” Stuff
DeleteWhen I broke the story in October, I spoke with him. Here’s what he said.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/spy-who-wrote-trump-russia-memos-it-was-hair-raising-stuff/
Michael Morell & Mike Rogers in WashPo: The US "has failed to establish deterrence" against Russian propaganda. In a single week this month, Moscow used its accounts to discredit the FBI, attack ABC News, critique the Obama administration, and warn about violence by immigrants.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/945688232452378626
2020:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/26/republican-senator-jeff-flake-rule-running-president-2020.html
PS. "A supposed freelance journalist by the name of
"Alice Donovan" with bylines in at least 10 different news outlets has been revealed to be a Russian troll who spent the election season pushing anti-Hillary Clinton narratives."
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/26/freelance-journalist-wrote-anti-hillary-propaganda-revealed-kremlin-troll.html
$OOn to be >President Oorin Hatch
ReplyDeleteVp joe LIEberman or newty gingRICH
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2017/12/25/tribune-editorial-why-orrin-hatch-is-utahn-of-the-year/
" the presidential decision to cut the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in half and to slash the size of the brand new Bears Ears National Monument by some 90 percent has no constitutional, legal or environmental logic.
To all appearances — appearances promoted by Hatch — this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch. A favor done in return for Hatch’s support of the president generally and of his tax reform plan in particular."
"“The selection of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch as the 2017 Utahn of the Year has little to do with the fact that, after 42 years, he is the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, that he has been a senator from Utah longer than three-fifths of the state’s population has been alive,” it reads. “It has everything to do with recognizing:
#1"His utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.”"
http://time.com/5079516/orrin-hatch-utahn-of-the-year/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=time.com&utm_campaign=ideal-media-internal-recirculation&utm_term=68739&utm_content=2168387
Je$u$ BULL$hitters WINNING!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
The moron thanked them,then i guess someone on his staff actually read the article and claimed his thank you was sarcasm.
DeleteRepublicans don't do sarcasm, just like they don't read bills they sign.
This didn’t start with Trump. It’s been going on in some form to some extent for a long time.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall the same sort of loyalty to Reagan was around but perhaps not just to the man but to what he was doing and proposing and such. They still worship at the feet of Saint Ronnie. Except most can’t spell Reagan, Regan or Raygun.
Except ronnie was against the evil empire, russia. haven't heard them explain their loyalty to putin, in fact haven't heard them extol the virtues of ronnie lately either.
DeleteCentury of progress donchano!
DeleteRepublicans change loyalties on a dime. Trump is going to do worse things in 2018. Let's see the state of things come November. There's no reason to take any Republican seriously before then.
ReplyDeleteDeath of the republican party, couldn’t happen to a “nicer” group of folks!!!! And they did it to themselves.
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