Alaskan Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski stuck her neck out and stood with Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins to oppose the horrid cuts to Medicaid this week. Herr Trump attacked her, even using his Interior Secretary to threaten funding for Alaska. On the Senate floor tonight, after casting the deciding vote to end the Skinny Repeal last ditch effort at undermining the Affordable Care Act, Senator McCain intentionally sat next to Senator Murkowski.
This was likely a statement — to Mitch McConnell and to Donald Trump. For McConnell it was about the Senate returning to normalcy. But for Herr Trump it has more ominous signs, especially after Senator Lindsay Graham warned Trump not to fire Mueller. Trump, and his stooge McConnell, have likely lost control of the Senate. A House vote to Impeach after the 2018 election might end this nightmare. I doubt Paul Ryan would allow a vote before that — even if a sex tape dropped, which it might.
The ice in Trump’s glass is shrinking by the moment. Smart power gives and takes. When power only takes it shrinks.
We could have someone carve a tiny appendage on the base of Mount Rushmore to remember him by.