Turkey is treating our President's letters with disdain. ISIS prisoners have escaped captivity. American forces are bombing their own military bases. Trump is telling the world precisely how many nuclear missiles (or does he know the number? Is that better, or worse?) NATO has in Turkey.When Erdogan meets with Putin, he displays a Russian flag of same size as Turkish. When he meets with Pence, TWO Turkish flags in background, one dinky little US flag on table. Visual statement of disdain by Erdogan for the United States and its weak, easily manipulated president— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 17, 2019
And Mitch McConnell is concerned with process:
Speaker Pelosi is still blocking the USMCA, a major trade deal that would create 176,000 new American jobs. Senate Democrats have filibustered defense funding and blocked a pay raise for our troops.— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) October 16, 2019
Democrats' impeachment obsession is blocking urgent work for American families.
Already, House Democrats’ impeachment “inquiry” is violating norms and precedent. They are denying Republicans and President Trump the same rights that Democrats and President Clinton received during those impeachment proceedings.— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) October 16, 2019
Washington Democrats have been engaged in a three-year-long impeachment parade in search of a rationale. Prominent House Democrats were promising impeachment at the very beginning of this presidency. Fairness and due process are not their objectives here.— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) October 16, 2019
What he is doing is playing on the habits of the DC-NYC-Atlanta media who he knows will always go for Republicans playing on the process because a. It's what they've always done, it's habitual, b. it's a lot easier than covering more complex and real issues, c. it's what their bosses like the result of. It's the same reason we see amoral slimeballs like Barr and Pompeo making gestures of religiosity that nothing in their other behavior has ever exhibited any signs of being important to them. They're playing the press and the suckers who they depend on. And the idiots on the play-left play right along with it like concussed lab rats.
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