Will this be the year Republican voters come to grips with their own party?

lizkat said:
I shudder to think what the Biden-Harris team will have to do in order just to understand the ground they inherit from the Trump government and the most reckless presidency we've ever tolerated in our history,
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We’ll have to count on the folks doing the real work in each department. They will be called in to do all the briefings once the swamp drains itself at last.
 
This is pretty hilarious unless you work for Trump, in which case you just found out for sure that loyalty is a one way street. His 30-year-old chief of personnel is contemplating asking almost all of the President's political appointees to submit a provisional letter of resignation by two days before the election.

The usual approach for a second term, when assured there will be one, is to ask for letters as desired during the runup to a second inauguration.

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Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations

The potential plan is angering officials who fear it will cause chaos in their personal lives as they plot their next moves.
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“None of the Republican administrations have done that before,” said a former official who has worked in the personnel office in past GOP administrations. A former senior Obama White House PPO official also said that the office did not ask for letters of resignation from all political appointees back in 2012, and slammed the potential move as “incredible.”
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If Trump loses, it’s unclear if any of the resignation letters would be accepted or if appointees would be allowed to leave the administration on their own terms. But administration officials expect a mad scramble to find post-Trump employment, raising the prospect of an already hollowed out federal government emptying further in its final months.
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lizkat said:
This is pretty hilarious unless you work for Trump, in which case you just found out for sure that loyalty is a one way street. His 30-year-old chief of personnel is contemplating asking almost all of the President's political appointees to submit a provisional letter of resignation by two days before the election.

The usual approach for a second term, when assured there will be one, is to ask for letters as desired during the runup to a second inauguration.

www.politico.com

Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations

The potential plan is angering officials who fear it will cause chaos in their personal lives as they plot their next moves.
www.politico.com www.politico.com
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Seriously, "going forward" to use one of those awful constellations of corporate weasel words (my mother used to describe the term "at this point in time" - an expression she detested - as as an example of self-important, pompous (male) speech, invariably adding "what's wrong with using 'now' instead"?), but, anyway, "going forward", or, in the near, or far, or indeterminate, future, does anyone really, seriously, truly, think that having served in this administration, or having that on your CV, or resumé, is something that will look good, or accrue to their advantage, or render them somehow even more employable, at anytime in the future?
 
Early voting starts tomorrow in Kentucky. Tonight Mitch McConnell and Dem challenger Amy McGrath debated on live TV from Lexington in a studio, socially distanced about 20 feet from each other and the moderator.

Mitch practically created a last minute ad for Amy, several times asserting "She says she's a Marine and a mom and that I've been in Washington too long." (Sounds good to me, too bad I can't vote for her.)

McConnell spent a lot of time telling voters of Kentucky that they need him to remain the Senate's Majority Leader. He ended up sounding like he's only in it for the power trip in DC... kept talking about how if you vote for McGrath you hand Kentucky's extra clout that he has as majority leader over to Chuck Schumer in NYC.

McGrath focused on a lot of stuff that McConnell's never gotten around to back in his constituency, and countered that what Kentucky really needs is a Senator for Kentucky.

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Kentucky U.S. Senate Debate

Incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Amy McGrath participated in a televised debate. Gray Television and the University of Kentucky co-sponsored the event. The debate occurred one day before the start of early in-person voting in Kentucky, and was the...
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lizkat said:
Early voting starts tomorrow in Kentucky. Tonight Mitch McConnell and Dem challenger Amy McGrath debated on live TV from Lexington in a studio, socially distanced about 20 feet from each other and the moderator.

Mitch practically created a last minute ad for Amy, several times asserting "She says she's a Marine and a mom and that I've been in Washington too long." (Sounds good to me, too bad I can't vote for her.)

McConnell spent a lot of time telling voters of Kentucky that they need him to remain the Senate's Majority Leader. He ended up sounding like he's only in it for the power trip in DC... kept talking about how if you vote for McGrath you hand Kentucky's extra clout that he has as majority leader over to Chuck Schumer in NYC.

McGrath focused on a lot of stuff that McConnell's never gotten around to back in his constituency, and countered that what Kentucky really needs is a Senator for Kentucky.

www.c-span.org

Kentucky U.S. Senate Debate

Incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Amy McGrath participated in a televised debate. Gray Television and the University of Kentucky co-sponsored the event. The debate occurred one day before the start of early in-person voting in Kentucky, and was the...
www.c-span.org www.c-span.org
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I fucking despise #MoscowMitch more than probably any other Republican in politics. And that says a lot, considering the rich assortment of assholes of every flavor on the roster.
 
iMi said:
I fucking despise #MoscowMitch more than probably any other Republican in politics. And that says a lot, considering the rich assortment of assholes of every flavor on the roster.
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He is responsible for anything in which he’s not merely complicit.
 
iMi said:
I fucking despise #MoscowMitch more than probably any other Republican in politics. And that says a lot, considering the rich assortment of assholes of every flavor on the roster.
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He's left a whole lot of needed legislation, and some of it even pretty bipartisan, sitting on his podium there in the Senate, just refusing to bring it to the floor. A really despicable "leader" of his chamber.
 
iMi said:
I fucking despise #MoscowMitch more than probably any other Republican in politics. And that says a lot, considering the rich assortment of assholes of every flavor on the roster.
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He's usually at the top of my list too but Lindsey Graham has moved into that spot for me. I disagreed with John McCain on most positions but he at least stuck to them, Lindsey showed such blatant and open hypocrisy with this SCOTUS in an election year debacle that I can't even look at him without yelling at the TV. Next to Trump he's the king asshole.
 
ericgtr12 said:
He's usually at the top of my list too but Lindsey Graham has moved into that spot for me. I disagreed with John McCain on most positions but he at least stuck to them, Lindsey showed such blatant and open hypocrisy with this SCOTUS in an election year debacle that I can't even look at him without yelling at the TV. Next to Trump he's the king asshole.
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Not sure “hypocrisy“ is a strong enough word. He’s obviously compromised somehow, IMO. Someone has his balls in their hand and squeezes as needed. He strikes me as a suicide risk.
 
Edd70 said:
Not sure “hypocrisy“ is a strong enough word. He’s obviously compromised somehow, IMO. Someone has his balls in their hand and squeezes as needed. He strikes me as a suicide risk.
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I think it's just who he is, a slimy snake oil salesman would sell his own mother if it meant getting one up on the libs, selling out all of his personal principles. To me this is the worst kind of person no matter what party they're in.
 

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