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Leonard Lubinsky's avatar

Where are the Republicans? They used to pride themselves on being the patriotic party. Nowadays they seem to be little more than yes men and women for Trump.

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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

Some are afraid. Career afraid. Earth to them: there is life after politics. But I believe some are afraid for their families and their safety.

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Ellen's avatar

Then maybe they shouldn't be in Congress.

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

That's not a maybe, that's a definite. As to Bill's point, for some, like McConnell and Grassley, there may not be much life after politics which is why they stick around past the point of full awareness. Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and Diane Feinstein did the same thing within my lifetime.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you for posting this Bill. As an Oregonian I am very proud of our Senator Merkley. He laid the truth out so well. Our other Senator Ron Wyden on the senate finance committee is doing excellent work as well.

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Susan Garrity Benton's avatar

How naive we were about DT & Putin in 2017! Now,

7-8 years later, it’s obvious that DT is a Russian asset

and cares far more about keeping Putin happy than

keeping the American people happy.

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Rickey Woody's avatar

well stated

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Fay Reid's avatar

What indeed did trumpslime get? We probably won't know until he is tarred an feathered out of the Whitehouse

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