Members of Congress do diplomatic damage control after Trump blusters

Posted by | February 3, 2017 13:58 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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How often is this going to have to happen?

Congress is already in diplomatic damage control.

Senators are huddling in meetings or on embarrassing phone calls with ambassadors of major allies, assuring them that, yes, America is still their friend.

They are cobbling together visits to other nations, something that members of Congress regularly do, but this time with the goal of assuring world leaders that powerful lawmakers do not walk in lock step with Mr. Trump.

Others are drafting legislation to blunt the force of Russia, with which the Trump administration has been uncharacteristically aligned.

They are also trying to discern some kind of consistency from the White House, which was made far more difficult when the administration seemed on Thursday to essentially be embracing President Barack Obama’s positions by demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea, that Israel curb settlement construction and that Iran face more sanctions for ballistic missile tests.

“Congress will have to take a much more active role than usual in foreign policy,” said Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “In part, to try and move the Trump administration to support more traditional American values abroad and to counter some of the damage he has done. It’s going to be necessary and it’s going to be bipartisan.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan had to make a call to Australia’s prime minister, and

Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a remarkable public statement Thursday noting that he had called Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, to express his “unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance,” after a contentious phone call between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull concerning the status of refugees from an Australian detention center.


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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

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25 responses to Members of Congress do diplomatic damage control after Trump blusters

  1. anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 14:14

    A sad day for congress.

    They actually have to do some work.

    • granpa.usthai February 4th, 2017 at 00:34

      baby sitting a 70 year old CRYBABY!

      sheesh.

  2. amersham1046 February 3rd, 2017 at 15:43

    half a dozen GOP Senators show march into the Oval Office and lay down the law, or Mr Trump will be facing a Dem control Senate

    • Willys41 February 3rd, 2017 at 16:18

      There is no law in Trumpville.

  3. bpollen February 3rd, 2017 at 15:56

    Remember this guy from “Fractured Fairy Tales?”
    .
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1a5073a0512d9f80495755b2208aeb63a393dffc28ee38dee7b878df5ffd8839.jpg

    This is what the Republican Congress is becoming – they clean up the Elephant Shite behind the Trump Parade.

    • Jack E Raynbeau February 3rd, 2017 at 22:00

      How does one define behind the Trump* parade? The Trump* parade is endless.

      • granpa.usthai February 4th, 2017 at 00:32

        kinda like his expanding behind?

      • bpollen February 4th, 2017 at 01:50

        It just SEEMS endless. It may be a large number, but there are a finite number of idiots and bigots in any culture.

  4. Willys41 February 3rd, 2017 at 16:18

    And thus I present to you the “future.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hasGoAUeJAA

  5. Red Mann February 3rd, 2017 at 19:52

    Who will change “אמת” to “מת” on GolemTrump’s forehead?

    • Jungle_Bhoy February 3rd, 2017 at 19:57

      A death threat is a death threat in any language.

    • PattyJM February 3rd, 2017 at 22:43

      For us non-Hebrew speakers, what does “אמת” and “מת” say?

      • Red Mann February 3rd, 2017 at 22:52

        From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem

        A golem is inscribed with Hebrew words in some tales (for example, some versions of Chełm and Prague, as well as in Polish tales and versions of Brothers Grimm), such as the word emet (אמת, “truth” in Hebrew) written on its forehead. The golem could then be deactivated by removing the aleph (א) in emet,[5] thus changing the inscription from “truth” to “death” (met מת, meaning “dead”)

  6. majii February 3rd, 2017 at 21:38

    Trump is finding out the hard way that what he thought was possible in regard to U.S. foreign policy before he became POTUS doesn’t work so well when one is POTUS. He’s made a mess of things, and no one in his party who is a member of Congress has the b*lls to inform him that he’s wrong. Sad, very sad.

    • granpa.usthai February 4th, 2017 at 00:38

      well, if we had Ambassadors like most other countries ……

      hell, even DPRK has Ambassadors.

  7. Jack E Raynbeau February 3rd, 2017 at 21:58

    “And the toys…. go winding down…”

    • The Original Just Me February 4th, 2017 at 09:56

      The Viagra wore off.

  8. granpa.usthai February 4th, 2017 at 00:30

    who would have thought our representatives would have to go around the world changing the diapers of a 70 year old CRYBABY in public, instead of representing the peoples of their district/state?

    • The Original Just Me February 4th, 2017 at 09:55

      This sure isn’t what our Brilliant Coal Miners had in mind when they chose to Vote foo Prickident Trump.

  9. Larry Schmitt February 4th, 2017 at 08:25

    This is a little long, but the payoff is worth it. I tried to copy and paste, but it’s a single image so you will have to open the link.

    http://storycrash.com/a-politician-dies-and-has-to-spend-just-one-day-in-hell-this-is-priceless/

    • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 08:40

      Good one.

    • The Original Just Me February 4th, 2017 at 10:10

      Very Republican fitting. Another version of Hell. A man wakes up after dying and finds himself sitting at at table in a bar. He has a half naked beautiful woman on his lap and a bottle of his favorite in front of him. Satan walks over and the man asks; Is this Hell ? Satan says to look closely at the bottle. The man looks and says; there is no hole in it. Satan says; The women are the same way.

  10. The Original Just Me February 4th, 2017 at 09:53

    Well, He is Their ” PRICKIDENT ” .

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