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It’s What Bob Corker Does Next That Counts
The Atlantic ^ | Oct 8 2017 | James Fallows

Posted on 10/09/2017 7:47:22 AM PDT by AndyJackson

...Senator Bob Corker ... deserves credit for saying ... what ... prominent Republicans have known ... Namely: that Donald Trump is irrational, ill-informed, impulsive, unfit for command, and increasingly a danger to the country and the world.

“I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him[.]”

...[the "responsible" GOPeers] consider him intellectually unaware of the cliffs toward which he is steering the country, and temperamentally unable to exercise anything like mature judgment.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018midterms; corker; fallows; iraniannukes; northkorea; nukes4islam; tn2018; trump
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If not long ago, Fallows has gone off the rails. I thought it was rocket-man who was threatening the U.S. with nuclear annihilation. What would Corker do? Reach a deal where we pay NK billions while they break a "negotiated understanding" to temper their nuke development and not be so public about it?

IOWs the GOPee habit of sweeping incoveniences under the rug.

1 posted on 10/09/2017 7:47:23 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

James Fallows and Jennifer Rubin must have been separated at birth.


2 posted on 10/09/2017 7:50:14 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: AndyJackson

Corker is less important than Flake and Graham.


3 posted on 10/09/2017 7:50:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: AndyJackson

They said much worse about Ronald Reagan


4 posted on 10/09/2017 7:51:33 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: AndyJackson

Corker is a vile swamp rat.


5 posted on 10/09/2017 7:53:48 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: AndyJackson

Never-Trumpers continue to grasp at straws.


6 posted on 10/09/2017 7:54:07 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: rdcbn
They said much worse about Ronald Reagan

Yes they did, nothing new here. All great leaders are attacked bon may fronts. All great leaders don't let this stuff bother them.

7 posted on 10/09/2017 7:54:35 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: AndyJackson

Corker is nothing but another corporate liberal beholden to donor money.

Perhaps if his constituents buried him in complaints he might change his tune. But he’s already in Congress so the constituents can go screw. (The standard GOPe MO)


8 posted on 10/09/2017 7:55:42 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: AndyJackson

He may be a maniac, but he’s OUR maniac...thank goodness.


9 posted on 10/09/2017 7:55:46 AM PDT by moovova
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To: AndyJackson

Sounds like Corker is essentially calling Trump a democrat.

Funny Corker liked Obama’s Iran nuke deal. That’s pretty irrational if you ask me. No, actually that would be more like TREASON!


10 posted on 10/09/2017 7:58:01 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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Next thing Corker should do is leave the Senate RIGHT NOW. Don't wait until his term ends...

*We The People* are finished with him..

11 posted on 10/09/2017 7:58:19 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (....give war a chance.....)
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To: AndyJackson

Notepad says I wrote this Thursday, June 09, 2016, 11:30:23 AM. It still appears to be true. Buckle up!

As for Donald Trump, I view him as a type of Samson, whom YHWH raised up to bring down the Temple of Dagon on the Philistines.

Now look at Donald Trump’s slogan: “Make America Great Again”. Alexis de Tocqueville said: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Donald Trump knows that in a country overrun with Philistines one can not campaign on “Make America Good Again”. However, if you look at what he says he will do, how offended he is by people lying about him, how offended he is with dirty tricks, how he hates the corruption in American government, etc. you know that he is trying to do is make America good again. So Donald Trump is bringing people out of the shadows, so to speak, and giving them hope that things can be better. This puts them out in the world where the Holy Spirit can bring believers into contact with those who are to be saved. So that is the spiritual aspect of the Trump campaign.

On the Bible Prophecy side, how is YHWH going to convince the Iranians that 2017 would be about the last time they, with their allies, can wipe out the United States and attack Israel to wipe it off the map?

How about we elect Donald Trump and he starts to make the American Military so strong that no one will want to mess with us? How about if he starts to root out the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Government? In fact, the threat of having Donald Trump in the Whitehouse may well trigger the attack that is described in Ezekiel 38:10-13, which YHWH does not stop, so that the attack in Ezekiel 38:14-23, which YHWH will stop can take place. Then the End will come.

When the world gets to these critical points, there isn’t anything one can do to change the course set by YHWH for the world. It is much easier if you focus on that narrow way YHWH has for you to do as your part in His magnificent Word.


12 posted on 10/09/2017 7:58:35 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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First up was incumbent Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who made a surprise announcement on September 26 he would not run for re-election, one day after a Breitbart News report about his sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail center development in which Alabama taxpayers are set to pay him more than $3 million over 20 years in sales tax incentive rebates. Though his announcement that he would not seek re-election was couched in terms that claimed it had been made “[a]fter much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year,” its suddenness–and the fact that Corker felt compelled to offer a lame and incomplete explanation for his investment in a deal that epitomizes the swamp in which the political elite thrive–underscores the potency of the Breitbart News report.
Thanks PJ-Comix for Breitbart Goes 'Old Hickory' in Tennessee, Gets 2 Establishment Scalps
13 posted on 10/09/2017 7:58:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: AndyJackson

Fallows is a very good writer but politically hopeless, naive. If you ever HAVE to read a leftist he’s the one. Otherwise, don’t bother. It’s still the SOS by the time you get to the end. As far as “gun control laws” go, theyre the trip wire, the canary in the coal mine to warn us that there are some very evil or at least extremely naive people trying to “complete the dictatorship” to rule us — we’re being warned


14 posted on 10/09/2017 7:58:59 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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dignitaries that they view Donald Trump as a menace in his current role.

"dignitaries"?

He IS a menace - to their comfortable, lucrative way of doing things. They don't want that gravy train slowed down. They don't want to lose their power-crowns.

This is all to prep the public to get on board with IMPEACHMENT.

My fear is that, if Sessions isn't removed and the felons aren't brought to justice - we will lose our country.

15 posted on 10/09/2017 8:01:46 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: AndyJackson

At least he is retiring.
That’s about the only good thing I can say about this decades-long swamp-dweller.


16 posted on 10/09/2017 8:03:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: AndyJackson

What cr@pweasels. Looking at what Trump has DONE, not his tweet history, tells you that Trump is a man of courage and action - we haven’t had one of those in the WH for a long, long time. The guys wearing lace-trimmed underwear don’t know how to deal with it and in fact, appear to be scared by a real man who puts America first.


17 posted on 10/09/2017 8:04:17 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: AndyJackson

Corker can go and live in mullah paradise after he leaves. What a scumbag.


18 posted on 10/09/2017 8:05:49 AM PDT by alstewartfan (We have no money but we stay afloat. The Jellyfishes don't scare us. Al Stewart from Red Toupee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Corker is less important than Flake and Graham

Truly a statement that only someone who actively wished for Iran to have nuclear weapons would ever make.

19 posted on 10/09/2017 8:06:20 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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If a Democrat were badmouthing a Democrat president this way, he’d already be hamburger. It is the Democrat leadership that would have annihilated him. They don’t tolerate this kind of backstabbing disloyalty.


20 posted on 10/09/2017 8:08:16 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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