If you want proof that Republicans can buck Trump if it’s really important to them …
by digby
… look no further than the way they nixed his choices for the Fed. Stephen Moore withdrew today. He boo-hooed about it to Fox News:
President Trump’s Federal Reserve board pick Stephen Moore is “bummed out” over withdrawing his bid Opens a New Window.
“It was very disappointing that this couldn’t go forward but you know the fact is that this kind of sleaze campaign over the last three or four weeks was just really too tough for me and my family and you know we just decided it was much better for Donald Trump to select someone who doesn’t have a 30-year paper trail,” he told FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto on Thursday.“If people are looking at things that I was writing 25 years ago, and you know looking through my divorce records, and it just was it was too difficult for us, and I feel bad because I feel like I’ve let a lot of people down and the president, most of all,” he said.
“He was incredibly nice at times and when I told him about this and he understood. But you know I’m bummed out frankly that I’m not going to be over there the fact because I think I could have some ideas that the Fed really needs.”
Republicans are happy to act as if they have no power because the Trumpies out in Trumpland love the president so much that they can’t risk going against him. But obviously, when they and their rich donors really don’t like something, they have no problem opposing it.
Let’s not kid ourselves any further. Every time they go along with Trump’s agenda it’s because they want to.
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