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Shoveling Shit for Donald Trump, Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue Get Covered in It
As the president provides a defining moment of national humiliation and disgrace, two Republican senators diminish the authority of their office to feebly try and cover for him.
So GOP senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue could easily have left it at that. They didn't recall President Trump saying 'shithole, which was their original position
last week. The country would have rolled its collective eyes but granted them their gimme. But on Sunday, they decided the Republican Party hasn't done enough sucking up to and lying for Donald Trump, so they went on the attack. Now, they said, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin was lying. Trump never said shithole. Perhaps shithouse. Ah, well that's different! As
the Times put itSo GOP senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue could easily have left it at that. They didn't recall President Trump saying 'shithole, which was their original position
last week. The country would have rolled its collective eyes but granted them their gimme. But on Sunday, they decided the Republican Party hasn't done enough sucking up to and lying for Donald Trump, so they went on the attack. Now, they said, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin was lying. Trump never said shithole. Perhaps shithouse. Ah, well that's different! As
, their recollections appeared to have sharpened.
The other and more important part maybe not more important to Cotton and Perdue, but certainly more important to the republic is the way Trump keeps going lower and lower and lower, and the way Republican elected officials keep shoveling out his path for him.'
Trump's remark was an important symbolic low-point of his presidency. It resonated around the world. The outrages are so numerous that we can't always know which ones will make the history books. We can be certain that this one will. A moment of national humiliation and disgrace.
Cotton and Perdue have chosen to go out of their way to align themselves with this humiliation. Their colleague Jeff Flake is giving a speech Wednesday comparing Trump to Stalin. Cotton and Perdue might well ask themselves what that makes them.
Both Senators were more than willing to lie for Trump. That is 'putting party before country', now they are 'walking back' their stories. It appears that honesty no longer has meaning for republicans.
The other and more important part maybe not more important to Cotton and Perdue, but certainly more important to the republic is the way Trump keeps going lower and lower and lower, and the way Republican elected officials keep shoveling out his path for him.'
Trump's remark was an important symbolic low-point of his presidency. It resonated around the world. The outrages are so numerous that we can't always know which ones will make the history books. We can be certain that this one will. A moment of national humiliation and disgrace.
Cotton and Perdue have chosen to go out of their way to align themselves with this humiliation. Their colleague Jeff Flake is giving a speech Wednesday comparing Trump to Stalin. Cotton and Perdue might well ask themselves what that makes them.
Both Senators were more than willing to lie for Trump. That is 'putting party before country', now they are 'walking back' their stories. It appears that honesty no longer has meaning for republicans.
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