Republicans stand by him

[struggle4progress]

By David Weigel July 11 at 6:37 PM

... As Republican senators moved around the Capitol .. they were asked .. whether emails released by .. Jr. revealed collusion between Russian interlopers and his father’s 2016 presidential campaign.

... they shrugged.

“That’s the very thing that we need to not be distracted by,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). “He’s not given any particular assignment in the administration,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) ...

Rush Limbaugh told listeners that he was “watching people lose their minds” because “they’ve got nothing.” On “Fox and Friends,” a morning show that the president watches regularly, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Trump attorney Jay Sekulow if 2016 campaign veterans could vet themselves and release any more information about meetings with Russians, “so this drip-drip-drip doesn’t fuel other haters” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/tested-by-the-many-chapters-of-the-russia-story-republicans-stand-by-trump/2017/07/11/3bc1983c-665c-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.54799b335d9f

[redstatebluegirl]

1. They love power more than their country.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Damn straight, baby!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. It just goes to show......

that Republicans will go down on anything their president does or says. They cannot be bothered to provide the Checks and Balances on the Executive Branch as long as their president goes along with them.

And ONLY then when the shit hits the fan and they see themselves going down the drain, will they step up. But by then, it will be too late.

[onecaliberal]

4. Make no mistake the GOP endorses treason.

[gratuitous]

5. So these Republicans feel confident

Sen. Tillis and Sen. Hatch are apparently totally persuaded that the Russians have nothing on anyone in the White House or in the President's immediate family, and that all decisions and policy announcements out of the White House are free of any Russian influence.

They have a very different view of events from me.

[Orrex]

6. Any use of the phrase "Jay Sekulow"

Should be immediately followed by "is a literal piece of shit."

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I'm Willing To Follow That Rule, Orrex!

Cuz, you know, he's a literal piece of shit!

[LonePirate]

7. They stand by him because the base still supports him.

If the base stops supporting him, so will the Republicans in Congress.

[SoCalMusicLover]

9. The Base Will NEVER Stop Supporting Him

That's why they're the fucking base! It's a circular Fuck session. They support the evil shitheads, and the shitheads respond in likewise fashion.

If Drumpf went out and shot someone on the streets of NYC, his "base" would remain at 33%. If he was on trial for it, depending upon where he was tried, he could be acquitted.

The base is untouchable.

[TEB]

8. They will follow hair Hitler into the bunker

[Yavin4]

10. This is why Dems need to go after Republicans and not Trump

Trump is what he is, and there's nothing that can be done about him until 2020 or an impeachment which then means that the real problem is that the Republican party refuses to live up to their constitutional duty and put a check on Trump. Therefore, they need to be gone.

[Shaddox]

12. Sooner or later a Repub will table a Bill explicitly allowing electoral collusion

with foreign powers. The only limitation will be "cannot directly interfere with vote counting" - all other forms of coercion, manipulation, gerrymandering, voter supression, Social media targeting etc will be on the table. They will rationalize all of this with the argument that ultimately democracy only requires the accurate counting of votes that have made it into the ballot box.