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January 14, 2019 01:57 PM UTC

Disable the Enablers

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Sen. Cory Gardner is always right behind President Trump

The federal government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history. New reports over the weekend indicate an increasing (yes, ever-increasing) level of concern about the possibility that President Trump is or has been actively working to advance the interests of Russia to the detriment of the United States. At the very least, it is inarguable that Trump has taken unusual unprecedented steps to hide the details of all of his discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin from even his most senior staff. As even a child understands, if you have nothing to hide, you don’t go to extreme lengths to, you know, hide things.

There is no hiding from the fact that Trump is causing great harm to this country and our political system. But as Greg Sargent of the Washington Post writes today in a column that is being widely shared, it’s time that Americans take a deeper look at the enablers that make Trump’s actions possible:

Two new blockbuster scoops about President Trump’s relations with Russia — combined with fresh signs that Trump will drag out the government shutdown indefinitely — should renew our focus on the quiet but critical role that Mitch McConnell has played in enabling the damage that Trump is doing to the country on so many fronts…

…In much discussion of all these matters, there is a terrible rhetorical habit of treating GOP conduct toward Trump as mere passive acquiescence. In fact, this is better seen as an active enabling, on one front after another. And we are likely to learn much more about just how damaging this has been soon enough. [Pols emphasis]

Republican leadership in Congress doesn’t appear to know how to deal with any of this, so they have ended up doing nothing. You might as well just change the Republican Party logo from an elephant to a “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ” emoji.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn’t in Washington D.C. on Friday, the first day that federal employees missed a regular paycheck. Neither was Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner — he was at the stock show in Denver instead.

Republicans have lost the messaging battle over the government shutdown — which is no surprise given that President Trump has repeatedly said that he would own the shutdown himself. Even Trump’s once-loyal base of white, working-class voters is starting to slip away. Yet Senate Republican leadership, which includes both McConnell and Gardner, won’t act.

Sure, Gardner will say that he wants the shutdown to end, but he won’t do anything about it. Officials from Colorado’s Congressional delegation, including Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Denver), were at Denver International Airport today to talk about the shutdown and proposals to get the government up and running — proposals that Republican leadership won’t even consider because Trump demands a big wall. If Gardner was at DIA on Monday, it was because he was flying somewhere else.

Responding to someone like President Trump with inaction is absolutely the same as enabling him. If and when Trump falls, his enablers will go right along with him.

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9 thoughts on “Disable the Enablers”

  1. Democrats voted for wall funds almost as many times as Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare. But Trump Derangement Syndrome is in full effect…

    1. Still mad about your furlough Moddy?  Knowing it's your Fuhrer's fault, but can't bring yourself to blame him?  Because, like Lindsay Graham, you wish to be Trump's little bitch.

      1. Careful, Unnamed.  You’re not supposed to recognize him when he’s wearing that ingenious Kleenex-moustache disquise . . .

        (. . . no telling what a guy with his psychological denial problems might do, if you don’t play along . . .) 

        . . . humor him.

        So, Mr. Reacharound, how’s that collection of Governor Coffman inaugural day memorabilia looking???!!!  Should be worth a bundle some day! Lots for you to count . . . 

          1. Well, word is that right now, Moderat . . . er, I mean, Reacharound . . . isn’t having to worry about having any income to tax, so . . .

            MAGA MAGA MAGA!! Stay the course, President Hump!  Buildawall, buildawall!  Some day those headed-towards-destitution unessential federal workers (“all Democrats” anyway, according to some orange genius good-brain tarriff guy), and their grammies, will all thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

              1. Goddess, I miss the "party of fiscal responsibility", "social liberals / fiscal conservatives", deficit hawks, and "cleaning the swamp". Even if they were always illusions.

                It is going to take Democrats years to pull out of the Trump recession.

                 

    2. I'll be kind and ask for what should have been there the first time — a cite to "Democrats voted for wall funds."

      I know Democrats have voted for "Secure Fences" in 2006. I know they've endorsed and voted for border security measures, including vehicle barriers. I know there have been some votes allowing CBP professionals to establish barriers in some heavily populated cities.

      Last numbers I saw: border of 1960 miles or so. 654 of them have barriers of some sort (what I would call "fences," and mainly financed by the Secure Fences Act of 2006). In the past two budget years, there has been appropriations for border security, carefully defining what is a "wall" and insuring no money would be spent on walls. 

      So, "OverreachPols"– what's your definition of a wall? And when did Democrats vote for it?

      1. Ok, but, like, the fences are bad, too, and it's bad that the Democrats voted for them. The Democratic aren't good on immigration. It's just that the Republican party being there to be actively genocidal on immigration makes them look halfway decent.

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