Huckabee Blasts ‘Globalist’ Flake’s Criticism of GOP for Supporting Trump

Last week’s failure of their Obamacare repeal efforts after seven years of ardent campaign promises still stung.

“I’m happy to say I actually think it’s a good thing for this reason”.

“It’s completely feasible that there will be long, drawn-out Republican primary for Trump to be renominated”, Stutzman said. I grew up working next to migrant labor, and I’ve always felt that they were making America better and we were better off due to their hard work. Tim Scott of SC. “So, I very much agree that we are far better off because of migrant labor”.

But there are plenty of Republicans who know that Trump is a bad deal, believe his temperament and narcissism are magnified in the Oval Office, and are damaging to this country and its institutions. Which means that it’s up to Congress – even if it is Republican-controlled – to ask hard questions about Trump and his administration. However, it is quite clear that the loudest opposition is emanating from the Senate.

The message to the White House: Trump may still reject the consensus judgment of the intelligence community about who interfered in the 2016 campaign, but Congress, speaking with one voice, demands that Russian Federation be firmly rebuked.

But it is Flake’s self-reflection that is perhaps most insightful. The media types who hate Trump and Republicans may have been forlorn about missing their favorite useful idiot, but they’ve nearly been immediately rescued by the junior senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake.

But when Trump was under fire last October after a vulgar video leaked and McCain and other Republicans pulled their support, Graham took a subtle jab at McCain, describing Trump as “not a 30-year, career politician” in a local news interview.

Flake, who’s up for re-election next year, said on “Face the Nation” Sunday that the Republican Party has lost its way. They’re hanging on to one cause for optimism: the appointment of John Kelly as White House chief of staff, which several GOP senators said they hope will calm the chaos on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers scattered for their summer recess Thursday, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump.

With polls showing the Republican Party even more unpopular than the Democratic Party right now, must Republicans do something different as they prepare to defend majorities in Congress and most statehouses in the 2018 elections?

“I don’t think he’s got much experience in the Senate as I recall, and he’s got a big job”, Cornyn said.

The ill will flows both ways. Before he first won election to the House in 2000, he ran the late senator’s institute in Phoenix. I didn’t think that was a very conservative thing to do. Cruz also drew massive headlines when he pointedly refused to endorse Trump at the Republican National Convention despite being handed a plum speaking spot.

“It’s pretty obvious that our problem on health care was not the Democrats”, McConnell said drily on Tuesday. “For those of us wandering in the arid desert of Eisenhower Republicanism, it hit like a rifle shot”.

The relationship between President Trump and Senate Republicans has deteriorated so sharply in recent days that some are openly defying his directives, bringing long-simmering tensions to a boil as the GOP labors to reorient its stalled legislative agenda. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.

“America – strong & unapologetic under @realDonaldTrump”, tweeted Flake’s GOP primary opponent Kelli Ward.

INSKEEP: When it was over, he said he was ready for a bipartisan approach to the most partisan of issues. “Any honest accounting of how we got to this new day has to reckon with Newt, whose talent for politics exceeded his interest in governing”.