Former GOP Rep. David Jolly on Monday made a stunning remark about his own party’s power, suggesting maybe the United States will be “safer if Democrats take over the House in 2018.”
Jolly and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell were discussing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) recent claim that “the United States Senate” is Congress’ “biggest obstacle to getting tax reform passed.”
“Sen. Mitch McConnell can’t be happy with that,” O’Donnell told his guest.
“No and look, there’s always been a divide—at least in recent history—of the chambers,” Jolly explained. “But listen, the Republican party never really recovered and found their footing from the emergence of the Tea Party, from the emergence of the likes of Sarah Palin, that has now manifested in the likes of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump.”
“What is different now is that we have a president who’s known to be unstable,” he continued. “We have a president who’s known to be risky when it comes to matters of national security.”
Jolly noted what started out as an “emerging rebellion within the Republican party” that McConnell and former House Speaker John Boehner couldn’t figure out has transformed into a much greater threat.
“[McConnell and Boehner] still haven’t figured it out, and now it’s real life consequences and potentially dangerous consequences,” Jolly said. “So I’ll be honest with you: Personally, as a Republican, in the past few weeks I’ve wondered, ‘Is the Republic safer if Democrats take over the House in 2018?’”
“I raised that issue with the leading Republican in D.C. last week and the remarkable thing is he had been thinking exactly the same thing,” Jolly added. “This is a president that needs a greater check on his power than Republicans in Congress have offered.
There are still a few Republicans willing to be honest.
“We have a president who’s known to be risky when it comes to matters of national security.”
And we had a Secretary of State who thought it would cute, clever and convenient, to have an unsecured home server, leaving lots of governmental emails, many of them classified, out there on the Web or in the cloud...just waiting to hacked. Yeah, gives a fuk about national security when the Dems are in charge. Thankfully we'll never have to worry about her being president.
There are still a few democrats disguised as republicans......
They might eventually get the message they need to switch parties....
There is nothing in David Jolly's wiki page that makes him look like a Democrat, although these days he does seem to qualify as a moderate Republican rather than an extreme conservative.
There are still a few republicans disguised as Americans... but they're not fooling anybody...
Everyone says they want to hear from the centrists and moderates. So here is a moderate Republican who says Trump is dangerous and unstable. Will anybody listen?
We will know more in just a little over a year...
What's the point...he's not going anywhere?
If things were done properly in Congress and there was none of the partisan BS that we have now from both sides (although I do see more coming from the democrat side) I would be OK with that. In fact my ideal government has one party in the White House and the Congress in control of the other ( I would however not want the party in control of Congress to have an absolute veto proof control)