GOP loyal to party and Trump not to country.

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With all of the fallout so far from the Russian Relationship and other actions of the Turnip the Reptilian Congress Critters are very silent about speaking out and demand action. In fact they are quietly letting him have his way and being supportive of his actions. This goes right along with their platform of anti anything Obama, pro big corporations, pro Fund Christian (as long as it doesn't effect the corporations) and any action to stay in power like voter suppression. As long as they get their thirty pieces of Silver they are happy.
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump this week gave a Russian propaganda arm exclusive access to the Oval Office, admitted he fired the FBI director over the bureau’s probe into him and refused to say whether he is recording White House conversations.

Yet even as outrage rained down on Trump and his administration, there has been largely silence from one quarter: fellow Republicans, particularly members of Congress.

“Most members are running like scalded apes from this,” said John Weaver, who ran Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s GOP presidential primary campaign last year. He added that Trump deserves all the criticism he is getting. “All of it is crazy and not sustainable, and the country can’t take it 24-7. ... It’s like Nixon with an open mic. It’s just unbelievable.”

Nevertheless, the silence from most elected Republicans is likely to continue, Weaver and other GOP political operatives said, until Trump’s behavior starts affecting the prospects of individual officeholders to keep their jobs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru ... mg00000009
The denarius, ancient Rome’s silver coin, was supposedly the daily wage of a manual worker. If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Act is repealed — tax cuts that are, obviously, the real reason for repeal — would amount to the equivalent of around 500 pieces of silver each year.

What inspired this calculation? The spectacle of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, defending Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey.

Everyone understands that Mr. Comey was fired not because of his misdeeds during the campaign — misdeeds that helped put Trump in the White House — but because his probe of Russian connections with the Trump campaign was accelerating and, presumably, getting too close to home. So this looks very much like the use of presidential power to cover up possible foreign subversion of the U.S. government.

And the two leading Republicans in Congress are apparently O.K. with that cover-up, because the Trump ascendancy is giving them the chance to do what they always wanted, namely, take health insurance away from millions of Americans while slashing taxes on the wealthy.

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late4dinner 13 hours ago
"How dare you compare me to Judas," he said. "I'm getting a lot more than a lousy thirty pieces of silver. That's what Ryan's getting."
Jack Pine Savage 13 hours ago
Amen! But the cause? How have such miserable miscreants as Mitch and his wonder boy side kick, 'lil Pauly Ryan, been both elected and...
michael 13 hours ago
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So you can see why I find myself thinking of Judas.

For generations, Republicans have impugned their opponents’ patriotism. During the Cold War, they claimed that Democrats were soft on Communism; after 9/11, that they were soft on terrorism.

But now we have what may be the real thing: circumstantial evidence that a hostile foreign power may have colluded with a U.S. presidential campaign, and may retain undue influence at the highest levels of our government. And all those self-proclaimed patriots have gone silent, or worse.

Just to be clear, we don’t know for sure that top Trump officials, and maybe even Trump himself, are Russian puppets. But the evidence is obviously enough to take seriously — just think about the fact that Michael Flynn stayed on as national security adviser for weeks after Justice Department officials warned that he was compromised, and was fired only when the story broke in the press. ...

At this point, in other words, almost an entire party appears to have decided that potential treason in the cause of tax cuts for the wealthy is no vice. And that’s barely hyperbole.

How did a whole party become so, well, un-American? For this story now goes far beyond Trump.

In some ways conservatism is returning to its roots. Much has been made of Trump’s revival of the term “America First,” the name of a movement opposed to U.S. intervention in World War II. What isn’t often mentioned is that many of the most prominent America-firsters weren’t just isolationists, they were actively sympathetic to foreign dictators; there’s a more or less straight line from Charles Lindbergh proudly wearing the medal he received from Hermann Göring to Trump’s cordial relations with Rodrigo Duterte, the literally murderous president of the Philippines.

But the more proximate issue is the transformation of the Republican Party, which bears little if any resemblance to the institution it used to be, say during the Watergate hearings of the 1970s. Back then, Republican members of Congress were citizens first, partisans second. But today’s G.O.P. is more like a radical, anti-democratic insurgency than a conventional political party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opin ... ction&_r=1

I think we should be investigating the whole lot of them for Treason, as we don't know what they have promised their keepers in Russia. We could start with Flynn. When faced with the charge of Treason he might just sing like a song bird rather than face the penalty of a treason conviction. Being a retired Lt. General I"m sure he could be recalled to active duty and tried by a general court martial stepped of rank pay and benefits then taken out and ether exited by firing squad or hanging. Let all their names shares the disgrace with the likes of Benedict Arnold, Quisling ad other of their ilk.
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