Senator Bob Corker’s Remarkable Response To Trump’s Latest Twitter Tirade
Republican Senator Bob Corker has responded to President Trump’s Twitter tantrum against him this morning. The response will raise some eyebrows:
It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.
— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017
Wow.
Corker is a lame duck — and as such is free to say out loud what other members of the Senate may be thinking, but unwilling to say in public.
Trump’s strategy of alienating one Republican Senator after another, with an extremely thin margin in the Senate, is obviously part of some diabolical eight-dimensional chess tactic. Maybe we can get the Dilbert guy in here to run an op-ed explaining the brilliance of this strategy to all of us rubes.
[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]
I’ll be running the comment script on this one and the next post as well.
Patterico (115b1f) — 10/8/2017 @ 11:33 amMy point about insanity, he seems to be deadest in preventing any changes in legislation, including tax, and he might have some other issues that caused to him not to seek reelection.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 11:38 amPre-emptive Mean Girl Strategy… fiendishly clever!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/8/2017 @ 11:42 amNews flash… Trump is buffoonish! Who knew?
Corker should’ve retired a few years ago.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 10/8/2017 @ 11:45 amIf you suspected why he behaved the way he does
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-probes-real-estate-firm-with-ties-to-sen-bob-corker-1464133933
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 11:52 amthis is the filthy anti-semitic p.o.s. what gave us the iran deal and is now resigning in disgrace, yes?
and now all he has left is his juvenile tweets
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:14 pmThis is why you can’t give an inch.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:20 pmhttp://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/10/08/dem-sen-murphy-bump-stock-ban-universal-background-checks-next-step-gun-control
If what Trump tweeted was true, they gave the public some useful information.
Previously, it had been reported that Trump asked Corker to run for re-election. Now Trump says he told him he would not endorse him.
Of course, both reports could be true. Maybe first he did one thing (ask him to run for re-election) and then the other, (tell him that he would not endorse him.) It could even be that Trump didn’t see these two things as contradicting each other. It is known that Trump felt it was a mistake for him (and probably also futile) to endorse and campaign for Luther Strange. So maybe he wanted Corker to run but wanted to stay publicly neutral in a Republican primary.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:30 pmIncidentally I read that people who were involved in Thad Cochrans’s primary in Mississippi were wondering they were not contacted by the Luthwr Starnge campaign. I don’t know the party registration rules in Alabama, but what Luther Strange could have done was go after people who thought of themselevs as Democrats – on the grounds that after all, they’d prefer him to Roy Moore.
Roy Moore claimed Mitch McConnell was doing it, r\or going to do it, anyway.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/08/roy_moore_claims_mitch_mcconne.html
But the Luther Strange campaign didn’t take one step in that direction – and he lost.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:32 pmsleazy corker already said he was gonna tank tax reform mccain-style (filthy war hero coward) unless it was a phony reform what paid fulsome obeisance to the static analysis of the corrupt CBO
marsha blackburn will replace him and do right by the people of tennessee while filthy bob prostitutes himself to the highest bidder (no moral compass)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:38 pmCooker’s tweet is funny and similar to comments I’ve made myself.
But then, I’m not a U.S. senator. And I’m personally sympathetic to, and rooting for, the day-care staff. So I end up thinking this isn’t helpful.
Is Twitter is the bump-stock of internet media?
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:38 pmOther news that dropped out of the cycle:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/10/08/police-to-probe-links-of-filipino-doctor-suspected-of-financing-movida-attack
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 12:40 pmCorker and his sweetheart deals down in Mobile at the expense of tax-payers also have the govna Haslam. Swamp republicans can’t drown quick enough. Corker is a main player in Iran FU##ING Americans. Good riddance you traitorous pos.
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:03 pmHallam is quitting cause – he needs more billions?
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:05 pmRepublicans suck
In some romance languages there’s just one letter difference between a cork and a wad of cotton- and a castrated rooster.
They harvest cork every eight years don’t they?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:05 pmThe sort of thing that involved the first clan
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:09 pmIt begins here:
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:13 pmhttp://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/02/former_president_of_haslams_pi.html
Corker is clan with the Iranians.
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:15 pmMarsha Blackburn will be an asset for America as the next Senator from Tennessee. She won’t be hiding behind some burka.
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:17 pmThanks to twitter we don’t have to wait for the typical score-settling book to be written anymore to find out what the numbskulls in DC think of one another.
crazy (d99a88) — 10/8/2017 @ 1:49 pmIt IS a fact that Corker couldn’t win in TN without Trump’s endorsement. That doesn’t make it a good thing.
Every time I consider whether President Trump is better for the country and Republicans than President Hillary would be for the country and Republicans, I come up with a grudging Yes. But it IS grudging, and I keep having to rethink the issue, so it isn’t one of those “no-brainers” the President so loves.
Kevin M (752a26) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:13 pmIs Twitter is the bump-stock of internet media?
It seems largely a host of ill-considered thoughts and half-baked notions.
Kevin M (752a26) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:17 pmThe framework re north Korea, didn’t have a patsy like corker. Or even a possible ringer like fideloflake, one wonders abiut a ringer like fincher
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:18 pmTrump is lost in the forest wanting to back Iran Bob
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:18 pmIt’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.
Now ain’t that a corker?!?! Congress may be a joke these days, but this fella has a future as a comedy writer. ‘Operator, get me Lorne Michaels at NBC…’
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:20 pmSammy,does Alabama have open primaries? If it doesn’t, going after Democrats is mostly a waste.
Is Twitter is the bump-stock of internet media?
kishnevi (3734a9) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:37 pmBeldar, I’m appropriating that line. But if you want royalties, you can have them.
Good for Corker. I admire the fairness, truthfulness and, most of all, kindness, in his description of the White House.
nk (dbc370) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:48 pmThe corker bill was the epitome of unaccountability, you can see why corker diesnt like any interference in it
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 2:57 pmStay on script, Mikie:
Players take knee;
Pence takes leave.
“That’s Entertainment!”
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:07 pmLike I say the fujimori template appeals.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/359861-details-emerge-on-trumps-plan-to-sell-insurance-across-state-lines/
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:08 pm24 you mean Baghdad Bob?
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:10 pmFrom another one of corkers collabirators
https://mobile.twitter.com/EliLake/status/917107451610193920
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:17 pmIs Twitter is the bump-stock of internet media?
No.
Bump-stocks turn a profit.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:19 pmIran Bob is retiring knowing he is exposed and has made enough money off the tax-payer so he will just flip us the bird and exit.
mg (31009b) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:23 pmBob ‘corked’ Iran
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:27 pmAn awful lot of those “child of the 60’s” types need some adult supervision. Left, right, and center.
Bang Gunley (5a4596) — 10/8/2017 @ 3:40 pmKoOL
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2017/10/08/why-decertify-irans-nuke-program-looks-like-its-hiding-in-n-korea/3/#33fdaab2713d
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 5:35 pm37. Well, of course, but do Trump and his people realize this?
You could call this the Axis of Evil.
Sammy Finkelman (9f1a19) — 10/8/2017 @ 6:05 pmkishnevi @26
This article seems to think Alabama doe have an open primary.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/08/primary_crossover_voting_advan.html
Of course if someone voted in the Democratic primary they probably couldn’t vote in the Republican runoff, but that was case in Mississippi too, but theer enough people who didn’t vote in the first primary to make this worthwhile for Cochran. (who is not suffering from an illness, by the way, but still shows up in the Senate part time.)
Sammy Finkelman (9f1a19) — 10/8/2017 @ 6:11 pmNarco…”there are persistent rumors
And this too..”If the American intelligence community has evidence that Iran’s nuke program is in North Korea, it should openly share the information”
Dang those Iranians…they haven’t proven they aren’t still involved in NK!
Ben burn (b3d5ab) — 10/8/2017 @ 6:12 pmRe another dead thread:
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 6:20 pmhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/08/catalonias-silent-majority-stage-huge-backlash-against-independence
The nevertrumpers love them some Corker. The Iran thing where he turned 1/3 to oppose into 2/3 to oppose was the thing that makes them all sexy for the Cork.
jcurtis (e6bb6a) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:02 pmHe’s an idiot, but you know … blind hogs and acorns and stopped clocks. Besides, I thought you guys liked guys who fight back.
nk (dbc370) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:05 pmThe George Aitken thing, no actually.
http://therightscoop.com/repost-mark-levin-exposes-how-us-senate-just-gutted-constitutional-treaty-power-and-gave-it-to-obama
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:08 pmAnd nit when they serve as the sepahs flack either, he is as bad as Luger why helped disarm the Ukraine with his new pal Obama.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:17 pmSan Francisco 49ers. Yes, their fan base might very well be a market for designer yogurts. And football pants by Dolce & Gabbana.
nk (dbc370) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:25 pmSorry, wrong thread.
nk (dbc370) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:26 pmCommenting on his loss in his 1835 bid for reelection to Congress from Tennessee, another politician whose name sounds not unlike “Corker” said:
And he did.
Beldar (fa637a) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:41 pmIs that blount fellow you mentioned earlier, because corker doesn’t resemble any other figure i can think of.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 7:45 pmVery subtle:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59dad12de4b0f6eed3513cf8?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
No that’s you champ.
narciso (d1f714) — 10/8/2017 @ 10:25 pmhe wants to do a carbon tax
and he arranged for the genocide of israel
this is bob corker
and he is no good
happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/9/2017 @ 11:16 amWell either he gets done in by cartel or Mars inhabitants.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 10/9/2017 @ 11:18 amCorker says Trump lied about saying he wasn’t going to endorse him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html
Also in the artivle:
Sammy Finkelman (9f1a19) — 10/9/2017 @ 11:42 amIran Bob was the one in 2014 that made a killing on inside the beltway knowledge about foreign companies. Something around 3/4 of a million in a short time. Very few trades, big gains.
mg (31009b) — 10/9/2017 @ 12:04 pm