They just love the taste of his boots.
by digby
There was a time when you would expect Senators to be less stupidly partisan than your average congressman like, say, Louis Gohmert.
No more:
These aren’t hearings, they’re interviews, and they’re always done this way. Also, 48 Republicans are allowed to participate and some chose not to. These rules were set by your buddy, Boehner.
Ok, Good talk 👍🏼 https://t.co/Rp6Xmj1Ci1— Brian Ray (@brianrayguitar) October 26, 2019
What if, just what if, the Obama administration, including the leadership of the Justice Department and FBI unlawfully coordinated with the DNC and the Clinton campaign to “go after” an opposing presidential campaign? No problemo?— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) October 25, 2019
John Kennedy is allegedly a highly accomplished academic who went to Oxford. His cornpone act is just that. But he is clearly also a dishonest hack. Good to know.
And Cornyn was on the Senate Sect Committee on Intelligence that just released a voluminous report elaborating in detail on the Russian interference in the election. He signed it personally as did every Republican on the committee.
So he’s just giving Trump a nice clurpy bootlick with this tweet.
I used to call the Republican congress during the Bush administration “the Eunuch Caucus” (which I now understand is an insensitive term that I wouldn’t use today.) I only bring it up because it’s important to remember that modern Republicans are always suck-ups to their presidents in a way that is almost sickening to watch. There is nothing unique about them doing it now except for the fact that Trump has abandoned virtually every tenet of conservative ideology in favor of a pure cult of personality and it has changed nothing.
They just love the taste of their Dear Leader’s boots, no matter who it is.