The modern GOP

As represented by John Cornyn.

Reporters asked Cornyn where he stands on an incipient bipartisan agreement to shore up the Obamacare exchanges. “I’m with the president,” Cornyn said. Asked where Trump was on it – the president has vacillated repeatedly – Cornyn threw up his hands.

The gesture may have been ironic, but it was no joke. Cornyn does not have an independent position on this policy question. He views his role as adopting whatever stance the president takes. His frustration is that he does not yet know what that stance is. Cornyn does not consider it part of his job to form an independent judgment on the policy. He sees his job as merely supporting Trump’s preferences.

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Republicans who are not retiring have – almost without exception – made their peace with the bully-in-chief. Some of them are actually angry at the dissenters. “Many GOP senators friendly to Corker are furious at his latest comments, making tax reform harder,” a “GOP, estab-friendly insider” tells Josh Kraushaar. The rest are simply going along. They’re blocking Democratic bills to force the release of Trump’s tax returns. They’re endorsing a corrupt bigot in Alabama who openly flouts the rule of law.

  NY Magazine

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.