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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

Burr has an online ad promoting his support for clean energy and his record as an independent leader working with both Democrats and Republicans.

Lol.....this election is so strange
 
He also has the distinction of being one of the biggest Trump supporters in the Senate and was the first sitting Senator to appear with Trump on the campaign trail at an event. So there's that too.
 
Trump's so erratic it's silly to pretend there's ever been a master plan, but the conservative media empire escape hatch seems like his best play after the train wreck. Trump and Bannon are going to get paid and Ailes gets some revenge.

While they may not have played their hands perfectly, Pence (avoid a career ending loss in IN, play for 2020), Cruz (2020), Kasich (2020?), Ryan (2020), and Rubio (2020/2024?) made reasonably good moves.

Newt, Rudy, and Christie don't have any other future options, so they had to sign on. Carly's a desperate clown-Cruz was never going to get the nomination and RNC Chair realiy is a crappy job.

Conway doesn't make much sense. Buys time via a pay day and adds another entry on her resume, but that's all dependent on a close loss. Trump goes off the rails again, he destroys the GOP and she takes a fair amount of blame. Also find it hard to believe that she doesn't realize Pence or Cruz and their brand of social conservatism is still going to be viable in 2020. She already may have cynically written off winning national general elections, but knows there's still money to be made in the 'Pub presidential primaries.
 
Trump, LePage, Rudy, and Carson can whine about political correctness all they want, but their time passed long ago and it's never coming back. Can still make a lot of money whining about it to other pissed off OWGs, but GOP has to decide if it wants to be a viable national party or a superstore for con men.
 
LePage says he is considering resignation, apologizes

LePage also apologized repeatedly to Rep. Drew Gattine and his family for leaving a threatening voicemail last week.

He said he plans to invite the Westbrook representative to a face-to-face meeting to talk further.

“When I was called a racist I just lost it, and there’s no excuse,” the governor said. “It’s unacceptable. It’s totally my fault.”

LePage said being called a racist for him was, “like calling a black man the ‘N’ word or a woman the ‘C’ word. It just absolutely knocked me off my feet.”
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While LePage has repeatedly emphasized his concern about the impact of drug addiction in Maine, state spending on the problem during his administration has actually declined.
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HRC & Trump/Pence campaigning in Cleveland, Bubba in Detroit, and Uncle Joe/Kaine in Western PA. Santa Clara Police Union vowing to boycott working Niners games over Kaep. Remains to be seen if Trump has permanently remade the GOP, but his most devoted followers are non-college degreed blue collar working class. "New" GOP can't be knee jerk anti-union if they want to hold the Trump coalition together after November. Can't afford to blow off 14M Trump primary voters. McCain's BFF Joe the Plumber is now a union member.
 
But aren't most of those GOP blue collar workers anti-union as well?
 
As long as Trump's GOP is anti-Latino, CO, NV, and AZ move to the Dems, so they have to win PA, OH, MI, and WI which is extremely difficult without a chunk of union members. Police unions aren't really happy with BLM. Other than police, public unions will stay with the Dems. Trump GOP has to figure a way to avoid completely alienating Rust Belt private union members while still holding onto non-union Southern manufacturers.

Way too many moving parts to keep the GOP together: corporate America, neocons, evangelicals, blue collar Whites, and Main Street small business. Need a clear advantage in educated Whites to offset totally alienating people of color. Need to marginalize social conservatives to avoid losing their advantage in corporate America.
 
NRA endorses Democrat Chris Koster in race for Missouri governor

Democrat Chris Koster won the endorsement of the National Rifle Association on Tuesday, adding to the growing list of traditionally Republican organizations that support his candidacy for Missouri governor.

The influential gun-rights group endorsed Koster just a few weeks after he became the first Democrat running for statwide office to ever win the endorsement of the Missouri Farm Bureau.
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His opponent:

 
Two questions:

What was he aiming at that blew up?
How much of a gun-totin' bad ass must that Dem be to get an NRA endorsement over a Navy SEAL?
 
Congress May Rewrite Saudi 9/11 Law After Veto Override

The two top Republicans in Congress said they’re prepared to rewrite legislation allowing victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia -- less than 24 hours after Congress took the extraordinary step of overriding President Barack Obama’s veto of the measure to make it law.

Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the measure could have unintended consequences -- including the fact that it could leave U.S. soldiers open to retaliation by foreign governments.
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Before the vote, senior administration officials warned lawmakers of this exact problem -- that weakening the concept of sovereign immunity could backfire if foreign countries tried to do the same for the U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter sent House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry of Texas a letter saying that could potentially expose Americans to lawsuits and “an intrusive discovery process” even if the U.S. is ultimately found not to be responsible for a particular event.

But Republicans said the White House didn’t make a forceful case, putting themselves in the awkward position of blaming the president for a bill they enacted into law over Obama’s veto.
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