Tweets Of The Day -- Republicans Shrug Off Trump Crimes (UPDATED)

The rot of the Republican Party in clear view:

GRASSLEY dismisses the SDNY court filings implicating POTUS.

“As long as Cohen’s a liar I shouldn’t give much credibility to what he says,” senator tells reporters.

Told that it’s prosecutors alleging it, Grassley replies: “He got his information from a liar.”

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 10, 2018

Republican senators react to U.S. prosecutors implicating the president in a crime 👇

THUNE: “We just don’t have the full picture yet.”

CAPITO: “We’ll just have to wait and see where it lands.”

PORTMAN: “I don’t know the details of it... We’ve just got to see where it goes.”

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 10, 2018

Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.
Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 10, 2018

UPDATE:  The Republican party- before- country hacks like those above might want to read the letter in today's WaPo by 44 former Democratic and Republican senators basically telling them to grow a spine.

Is Ted Cruz Just Now Figuring Out That Mitch McConnell Is A Liar?

In a speech that violated norms of Senate decorum and party loyalty, Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz (R-Calgary) called out his Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell on the Senate floor today (!) over what Tailgunner Ted thought were McConnell's assurances that the Export-Import Bank re-authorization would not be coming up for a vote in the Senate (it will):

"Not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie," Cruz said.  [snip]

"We now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eyes and makes an explicit commitment that he is willing to say things that he knows are false."  (our emphasis)

Some people are just slow learners. (Or maybe Tailgunner Ted is a liar?!  This is getting to be like eleventy- dimensional chess.  Let's just posit that all Republicans are liars until proven otherwise.)

It's hard to imagine it getting any crazier, or better.

(Obvious musical accompaniment)

Marco Rubio: Staying Classy

Republican- who- will- never- be- President, Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (R-Lightweight) managed to pinch this out between gulps of water today on that classy show "Fox and Friends:"

“We already have a president now that has no class.”

Spoken as a true arbiter of "class," Glug Glug!  After all, you're a man who:

 - Used his Republican Party credit card for personal items and then failed to report them on his tax returns - classy!

- Lied about Embellished his family's anti-Castro regime roots and reasons for immigrating to the U.S. - classy!

- Abandoned the immigration reform bill he helped author after getting heat from the mouth-frothing Republican base - classy!

- Is petrified to admit that climate change is real, man-made and will devastate his State, for fear of getting more heat from the same mouth-frothing Republican base - classy!

Clearly, there are no classy mirrors in Casa Glug Glug.

(h/t Mock Paper Scissors)