Opinion: Republicans believe in presidential power only when the president is a Republican
President Trump with Sens. Marco Rubio , center left, and Rick Scott , center right, as he tours damage by Hurricane Michael at Tyndall Air Force Base on Wednesday. By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist May 9 at 2:26 PM “In scandals such as this, it is always members of the president’s party who have particular leverage, and therefore who have a particular responsibility, to hold the president accountable for his actions.
How much more shameful is it now that the members of the president’s party — Bennett’s party — will not come out “forcefully, unambiguously, publicly” to call out President Trump for his illegal and unethical conduct and insist that he comply with congressional attempts to unearth the facts. Bennett was writing when a Democratic president was accused of lying about sex. Today, special counsel Robert S.
In a 2012 video unearthed by Republicans for the Rule of Law, Sen. Marco Rubio excoriated then-Attorney General Eric Holder for not providing more documents to a House probe of a gun-running sting: “I think that it is outrageous that any attorney general — Republican or Democrat — refuses to comply with Congress’s constitutional right to hold them accountable and the Justice Department accountable. I would say that if that if this was a Republican just like I do now because it’s a Democrat.
The Republicans’ reluctance to investigate Trump is sometimes explained by pointing to their devotion to unlimited executive power — a GOP obsession ever since Watergate. But their past statements make clear that this is not the case. Republicans believe in presidential power only when the president is a Republican. When it’s a Democrat, they suddenly discover the importance of congressional oversight. There is no disinterested principle that could possibly explain or excuse Republican conduct.
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