If they did nothing wrong, they shouldn’t be so nervous. “The details change almost daily, but the rumor won’t die: A credible news organization is preparing to unmask at least 20 lawmakers in both parties for sexual misconduct.”
If Republicans are scared of a constitutional crisis, they should be more adamant than this. “GOP Sen. Cornyn: ‘Would Be a Mistake’ for Trump to Fire Mueller.”
You wonder why the White House is so hysterical. “Officials of President Trump’s transition team plan to ask Special Counsel Robert Mueller to return ‘many tens of thousands’ of transition emails they contend were unlawfully provided to him. But the prosecutor’s office says emails being used in the investigation were properly obtained.” Of course they were.
Republicans should be skittish. “Asked which party they prefer to lead Congress after next year’s midterms, 50% said the Democrats and 39% said Republicans. That 11-point lead is wider than the 7-point advantage Democrats held in October, and it is the first double-digit advantage for the party since late 2008, ahead of the Democrats’ win in the presidential election that year.”
Shouldn’t they be worried that voters will resent being misled? “It leaves nearly every large tax break in place. It creates as many new preferences for special interests as it gets rid of. It will keep corporate accountants busy for years to come. And no taxpayer will ever see the postcard-size tax return that President Trump laid a kiss on in November as Republican leaders launched their tax overhaul effort.”
The White House is fretful since a lot of Republicans agree with the senator-elect from Alabama. “[Doug] Jones also said on Fox that he supports extending deportation protection for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants covered by Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. He opposes Trump’s call to build a wall on the southern U.S. border as an expense that taxpayers don’t need to incur, he said.”
Panic time for Republicans if Trump underscores that the election is a referendum on an historically unpopular president. “President Trump is not on the ballot in 2018, but the White House is planning a full-throttle campaign to plunge the president into the midterm elections, according to senior officials and advisers familiar with the planning. Trump’s political aides have met with 116 candidates for office in recent months, according to senior White House officials, seeking to become involved in Senate, House and gubernatorial races — and possibly contested Republican primaries as well.” Democrats will hardly believe their good fortune.