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GOP sees falling Trump stock as growing threat to Senate majority

skeptic llc said:
Quibble: If R Senators hadn't been Trump enablers for four years, they might be judged on individual merits rather than as an extension of Trump.
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Yes, but for the senators, the majority anyway to act differently shouldn't be expected unless the people as a whole turned against Trump as they did Nixon in the last days of his presidency. Senators and House members of the president's party usually for the most part always follow their president's lead regardless of who the president is. members of congress of the president's party is always trying to give their president everything he wants.
 
Perotista said:
Yes, but for the senators, the majority anyway to act differently shouldn't be expected unless the people as a whole turned against Trump as they did Nixon in the last days of his presidency. Senators and House members of the president's party usually for the most part always follow their president's lead regardless of who the president is. members of congress of the president's party is always trying to give their president everything he wants.
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Seems true, and sad. I'd much rather have pols in each party who fought for things they believed in, rather than just a bunch of partisan drones.
 
skeptic llc said:
Seems true, and sad. I'd much rather have pols in each party who fought for things they believed in, rather than just a bunch of partisan drones.
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Yep. I would like to see our elected officials actually represent the people back home and vote their wishes and wants instead of the party line. Example, on Kavanaugh the people of Maine was totally against him, Collins should have respected their wishes and voted no. Jones of Alabama from the opposite of the aisle, the folks in Alabama were all for Kavanaugh, he should have voted yes. But party line won out over their constituents and the folks back home wishes and wants.

The whole idea of representative government is to represent the people back home, district, state and not just your party.
 
Perotista said:
Yep. I would like to see our elected officials actually represent the people back home and vote their wishes and wants instead of the party line. Example, on Kavanaugh the people of Maine was totally against him, Collins should have respected their wishes and voted no. Jones of Alabama from the opposite of the aisle, the folks in Alabama were all for Kavanaugh, he should have voted yes. But party line won out over their constituents and the folks back home wishes and wants.

The whole idea of representative government is to represent the people back home, district, state and not just your party.
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That's a good point. I do want pols to campaign for and then if elected stand up for what they deeply believe in -- but they should also take into account what their constituents want.
 
skeptic llc said:
Quibble: If R Senators hadn't been Trump enablers for four years, they might be judged on individual merits rather than as an extension of Trump.
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Nah this goes back to Obama when the Republicans took the Senate...it is about all of them and their actions...had they acted like respectable elected officials they would not being tossed to the curb.
 
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