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Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
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GoldenRod
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Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-senate-republicans-opposition_us_583478b7e4b01ba68ac2e1b0
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A small number of influential Republicans in the Senate are threatening to block appointments to Trump’s administration, derail his thaw with Russia and prevent the planned wall on the border with Mexico.
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Paul, a libertarian lone wolf, says he will block Senate confirmations if Trump nominates either former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to be secretary of state.
South Carolina’s Lindsay Graham has started publicly outlining places he might be willing to oppose Trump. He is against the Mexican border wall and is delivering warnings against Trump’s intention to revoke legal status for undocumented immigrants brought here as children - although that would not require congressional approval.
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Other Senators who might defy Trump are Arizona’s John McCain and Jeff Flake, Nebraska’s Ben Sasse, Florida’s Marco Rubio, Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, said senior Senate aides and lawmakers.
These lawmakers have ruffled feathers in the past and some have a good political reason not to fear Trump: Paul, McCain, Murkowski and Rubio do not have to run for reelection until 2022. Graham, Collins and Sasse will have to face the voters in 2020; Cruz and Flake have an earlier election, in 2018.
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So Trump may actual help Congress "reach across the aisle" to agree on some things.... 
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Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
I really hope they get a spine and hold to this and don't feel the need to fall in with party lines
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| Posted 11/22/16 1:19 PM |
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Pumpkin1
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Re: Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
Posted by chilltocam
I really hope they get a spine and hold to this and don't feel the need to fall in with party lines
It'll never happen. The only one I see sticking to his guns is Rand Paul but the rest of the spineless jellyfish will just bend over and ask for more (my reference is for a spanking, nothing more).
Message edited 11/22/2016 1:23:24 PM.
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| Posted 11/22/16 1:22 PM |
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MC09
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Re: Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
Sure they will 
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| Posted 11/22/16 2:46 PM |
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MC09
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Re: Willing To Oppose Trump, Some Senate Republicans Gain Leverage
Posted by Pumpkin1
Posted by chilltocam
I really hope they get a spine and hold to this and don't feel the need to fall in with party lines
It'll never happen. The only one I see sticking to his guns is Rand Paul but the rest of the spineless jellyfish will just bend over and ask for more (my reference is for a spanking, nothing more).
Well, the other thing too! 
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| Posted 11/22/16 2:47 PM |
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