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Vote out Donald Trump's lap dogs in the Senate and the House
Today is THE opportunity for Americans to reclaim America from Trump and his enabling GOP majority Congress.
Related: The Hill | USA Today: ‘Vote out Donald Trump's lap dogs’
11/6/18
USA Today
The current GOP-controlled House and Senate, however, have been little but obedient lap dogs to President Donald Trump. This would be troubling under any circumstances. But it is especially so now with a president who careens from gross incompetence to troubling executive overreach; who tolerates, even encourages, corrupt behavior; and who tries to govern through a toxic mix of self-adulation, divisive rhetoric, fear-mongering, outright lies and juvenile name-calling. It is not healthy for the country, or the institution, when Congress abets Trump’s politicized attacks on his own Justice Department and on the free press. Nor is it healthy when Trump’s fellow Republicans remain mostly silent when he incites hate groups with incendiary language, or when he veers erratically from threatening nuclear war with North Korea to declaring himself “in love” with dictator Kim Jong Un. Now comes the first general election of the Trump era, which carries with it a crucial opportunity to restore the basic oversight functions of Congress. The institution needs men and women of good faith who will stand against presidential overreach. It needs lawmakers who will unite, not divide; who do not regard compromise as a dirty word; and who will stand up for what is a co-equal branch of government with the presidency.
The stakes in this year’s elections, which Trump himself describes as a referendum on his presidency, could not be higher. Tuesday’s results will determine the degree to which Trump’s baser instincts will be reined in and the degree to which the rule of law will once again be an important principle in our nation’s capital.In the weeks and months ahead, special counsel Robert Mueller is likely to provide more clarity on a number of issues, among them Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Trump’s longstanding business ties with Russia, and whether his firing of James Comey, the FBI director who was overseeing the Russia inquiry, constituted obstruction of justice. The next Congress — indeed, this one — needs to make clear that it will not tolerate efforts to end or limit Mueller’s inquiry, either through some kind of chain-reaction firing at the Justice Department or by Trump’s ongoing drumbeat of public criticisms. The current House and Senate have failed miserably at their duty to conduct oversight hearings and to put guardrails around a reckless president whose own aides have questioned his fitness. It is time to elect a Congress that will do better.
Today is THE opportunity for Americans to reclaim America from Trump and his enabling GOP majority Congress.
Related: The Hill | USA Today: ‘Vote out Donald Trump's lap dogs’