#35 - The Silence of the Lambs

I understand loyalty, I really do.  But when the leader of your party so consistently flies off the rails, how can you sit back in silence?   How can you let him take down your party?  How can you let him take down the country ? When are good Republicans in Congress and in the Trump Administration itself going to stand up and call out this man for what he is ? At what point does personal integrity become more important than party loyalty?  

The man is equal parts ignorant, egotistical, selfish, unethical, immoral, intellectually lacking in curiosity, and most notably untethered to the real world.  And did I say certifiably insane ? If I missed that one, it should have been first on the list. 

He has now proven that he can't even lie in a competent fashion.   If there was one skill that I thought he had honed to perfection, that was it, and now we have to throw that one out the window. 

In one interview with Lester Holt, he contradicted all of his talking points on his firing of James Comey, that he had sent his talking heads out in to the world to deliver just 24 hours earlier.   They weren't just run over by a bus. They were drilled into the ground by their own tank     How much Kool-Aid do Kelly Ann Conway, Shawn Spicer, Sara Huckabee and VP Pence have to drink to get out of bed in the morning to go to work?  How can they look at themselves in the mirror?  Are we to believe that they are all collectively incompetent, or do they just believe their actions are noble ones and their role is to look like fools to serve their emperor?

And now Trump is hinting that it wouldn’t be a bad idea if he does all the press conferences himself, because....he just moves too fast for his team.  So much for his campaign promise to hire the very best people for his administration. 

If the outright lies emanating out of the Trump White House weren’t bad enough, who in their right mind would, one day later, let their President be seen shaking hands with Chief Spy of Russia in the Oval Office?  Couldn’t we have called in Jared for this photo op?  And why would they only let the Russian Press take pictures? Did they really think that Putin would just put them in his scrap book?

And so now, Republicans in Congress have to wake up and stop believing that Trump is their savior, that their ends justifies their means. Their own personal anger and frustration for having to live under Obama for eight years will have to take a back seat for the good of the country. They have to speak the truth. They have to call this man out for what his is, a fraud.   Our country deserves better, we deserve better.

The lambs in the Republican party must speak out. Their silence can no longer be excused.  

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This was completed last night before the latest news of Trump's revealing of classified information to the Russians.   It's really hard to keep up with this guy...but this latest blunder might actually wake up a few folks in the GOP.