“I am part of the Resistance in the Trump Administration” - Stunning Article in NYT

[zantax]

@Apocalypto

Wasn’t the 25th Amendment designed specifically for circumstances like this? What’s stopping these cowards inside the administration from invoking the 25th?

No, being an idiot isn’t incapacity. Impeachment is the remedy for this. Using the 25th is actually a higher bar and it was meant to be used in the event a President was incapacitated, not stupid.

[zantax]

@NebraskaFootball

@Apocalypto

Principles my friend…"If you find yourself always compromising with your principles, you probably don’t have any.”

I don’t disagree, as you know, about how important principles are. But what would you like to see this person, or their fellow compatriots in this resistance, do outside of what they did here?

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

[Bodecea]

@Munimula1

@Yakshi

Trump can’t do anything to Pence, yet Pence remains silent through all of this.

That’s a true test of character.

I think Pence sees himself as POTUS in the near future, and doesn’t want to alienate Trump’s base.

Exactly what I was thinking…as for who it is, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Sanders.

[TommyLucchese]

@WuWei

The Constitution is. You don’t get a say. Imagine, Policies without the Personalities. No more war with the press. No more whores. No more golf.

Whatever will you libs cry about?

It adorable you think Pence isn’t in this up to his neck just because he has the room temperature IQ to not talk about it publicly.

[DOLOOP]

@CaughtInTheMiddle

i’m hoping that all our allies are just trying to wait this out until we get a sane president again.

oh, and none of this is Trump’s fault. point the finger directly at each person that voted for him. he can’t vote himself in.

I’m not convinced. Countries like Canada, who are our largest trading partner, and committed their blood and treasure in support of us after 9/11, will likely have grave pause at the commitments being offered by future presidents and congresses.

I do not blame them. They have been sorely treated.

[zantax]

@NebraskaFootball

@JayJay

I disagree.

I think if they could demonstrate a true danger to the nation, they could get even Congress to act.

If they feel the situation is dangerous enough to think about enacting the 25th, then start the process to enact the 25th!

That’s what it’s there for…political consequences be damned.

This makes things worse, not better.

It entrenches the sides more…and probably makes the President act in even more unpredictable ways if what they say about him is true.

This was a bad, bad move.

I just do not believe there is any scenario possible where the GOP would back and support a removal of the head of their party. Shy of something tremendously damning. Which, according to the article, there does not seem to be anything of a singular sort in this regard.

Also, how many people within the administration would agree to move forward with invoking the 25th? If this is a small group of resistance people, who have placed country above party, rather than the majority, then would they even be successful? If it is obvious they would not, then what good comes from falling on their sword now?

What would you have rather had them do here? Keep it quiet and not sound the alarm about what is really going on? It seems to me that this person is using this platform to promote the concept of needing a check on the President. Which will clearly not come from the GOP.

And you don’t see anything wrong with a minority faction deciding they will usurp executive authority for our own good eh?

[NebraskaFootball]

@zantax

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

And then there will be no one left to prevent this lunatic from his worst impulses. Because we both know the feckless cowards in the GOP will not do anything.

[Cratic3947]

I think this is a sign of more desperation on the left.

Nothing they thought was real is working, so just start making stuff up, so the liberal bubble can talk to itself about the same ol’ stuff over and over and not the good news and Trump achievements.

I bet there is not one substantive line in the entire article. And I haven’t read it…
But if you find one, let me know…

Trump is cool… Ol’ Flexible and the Uranium queen were not.

[TommyLucchese]

@zantax

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

To be told what the president is doing isn’t technically illegal and roundly ignored?

[Bodecea]

@zantax

@NebraskaFootball

@Apocalypto

Principles my friend…"If you find yourself always compromising with your principles, you probably don’t have any.”

I don’t disagree, as you know, about how important principles are. But what would you like to see this person, or their fellow compatriots in this resistance, do outside of what they did here?

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

Maybe they like to have the power and are afraid to be forever labeled a Benedict Arnold by the trump faithful…so they do what they can on the down low.

[DOLOOP]

@Bodecea

@Munimula1

@Yakshi

Trump can’t do anything to Pence, yet Pence remains silent through all of this.

That’s a true test of character.

I think Pence sees himself as POTUS in the near future, and doesn’t want to alienate Trump’s base.

Exactly what I was thinking…as for who it is, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Sanders.

I’d say McGahn, but I’m not convinced he qualifies as a “Senior administration official” in the NYT style book.

[Yakshi]

@DOLOOP

I’m not convinced. Countries like Canada, who are our largest trading partner, and committed their blood and treasure in support of us after 9/11, will likely have grave pause at the commitments being offered by future presidents and congresses.

I do not blame them. They have been sorely treated.

Our next president, whenever that happens, will have a whole lot of work ahead of him/her.

I wouldn’t even object to our country’s first apology tour.

[Apocalypto]

I don’t have an argument here, good point.

[DougBH]

Ok… Our “hero” says he likes much of what Trump has done but that Trump basically is a little crazy so to help steer him right our hero has decided to mock him in the biggest anti Trump newspaper he could find.

Yeah. That should really help the situation and the country. Like in the Caine Mutiny.

[NebraskaFootball]

@zantax

And you don’t see anything wrong with a minority faction deciding they will usurp executive authority for our own good eh?

Of course I do. Nothing about any of this is normal or okay with me. This is a disaster. One, I might add, that YOU are partially to blame for.

[Cratic3947]

@NebraskaFootball

@zantax

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

And then there will be no one left to prevent this lunatic from his worst impulses. Because we both know the feckless cowards in the GOP will not do anything.

Yes, such great fiction. So, well written and dramatic. Should provide the leftists weeks of blah, blah’s, and OMG’s…lol!

[ohknow35]

harvey

Drop Dead Fred

[Yakshi]

@DougBH

the biggest anti Trump newspaper

Well, the New York Times is one of the most respected newspapers in the world.

But sure, I guess s/he could’ve sent the essay to the New York Post or the Sacramento Bee.

[Bodecea]

@zantax

@NebraskaFootball

@JayJay

I disagree.

I think if they could demonstrate a true danger to the nation, they could get even Congress to act.

If they feel the situation is dangerous enough to think about enacting the 25th, then start the process to enact the 25th!

That’s what it’s there for…political consequences be damned.

This makes things worse, not better.

It entrenches the sides more…and probably makes the President act in even more unpredictable ways if what they say about him is true.

This was a bad, bad move.

I just do not believe there is any scenario possible where the GOP would back and support a removal of the head of their party. Shy of something tremendously damning. Which, according to the article, there does not seem to be anything of a singular sort in this regard.

Also, how many people within the administration would agree to move forward with invoking the 25th? If this is a small group of resistance people, who have placed country above party, rather than the majority, then would they even be successful? If it is obvious they would not, then what good comes from falling on their sword now?

What would you have rather had them do here? Keep it quiet and not sound the alarm about what is really going on? It seems to me that this person is using this platform to promote the concept of needing a check on the President. Which will clearly not come from the GOP.

And you don’t see anything wrong with a minority faction deciding they will usurp executive authority for our own good eh?

Yes and No

[mobiusptc]

@TommyLucchese

@zantax

Umm, resign and take their complaints and accusations to the press and congress. I should think that would be obvious.

To be told what the president is doing isn’t technically illegal and roundly ignored?