The Wall St. Journal reports on GOP officials between a rock and moron:
During an April 28 meeting at the Capitol Hill Club near Congress, the chief of staff for Sen. John Curtis (R., Utah) told the group of CEOs and other executives that the senator was sensitive to the costs of tariffs on businesses in the state, according to people familiar with the conversation, including attendees of the meeting. The chief of staff said the senator planned to support those businesses by voting for a bipartisan resolution that would have ended the emergency authority used for President Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs, the people said.
The morning of the April 30 vote, Curtis himself told business leaders that he would consider supporting measures to curtail Trump’s tariffs if they had a chance of passing in Congress, according to people familiar with that conversation, including attendees. But that afternoon, Curtis ended up casting what proved to be a decisive vote against the measure, which failed in a 49-49 vote, after pressure from Senate GOP leadership and a visit from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who joined a Senate Republican lunch the day before the vote.
Don’t worry. The Utah Chamber of Commerce still backs him. It’s all good. They will immolate themselves before they ever even consider bucking Dear Leader and that includes business and politicians alike.
It is a tough spot for these Republican lawmakers to be in. Criticism of the president’s policies could earn a public rebuke from the White House. But embracing the new duties could be politically risky: Voters disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy, inflation, and tariffs, according to recent polling by The Wall Street Journal.
Oh boo hoo hoo. These guys are so cowardly. Imagine what would happen if they all stood up together and said no to Trump?
They won’t though. Many know he’s destroying businesses and the boarder economy but they’re just hoping that somehow it all works out. And there is a large contingent who have bought into the myth that Trump “knows things” or has some kind of quasi magical power that allows him to defy all reason. After all, he escaped two impeachments, indictments, convictions and an attempt to overthrow the government and was re-elected to the presidency. They believe he is invincible.