R4I: Tillis says Miller gotta go
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Where the GOP is concerned, any infighting is good infighting. But persnickety arguments about style and scope of influence are far more tepid than the biting, gouging and chainsawing I would like to see.
Plus, calling for Miller’s ouster is like trying to treat a nasty symptom while ignoring the much nastier disease that’s causing it.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday he believes White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the Trump administration has been a “big problem”.
The senior senator representing North Carolina, when asked on CNN’s State of the Union if he thinks Miller should go, during a conversation about the administration’s immigration crackdown, responded to host Jake Tapper stating “Oh, of course I do.”
“He is not worried about substance. He’s more worried about form, but I also think that he has an outsized influence over the operations of the cabinet. And I believe we’ve got qualified cabinet members there that sometimes are doing less than what they want to, because of his direction and his outsized influence. He’s a big problem in this administration. He has been from the beginning,” said Tillis.
Every cabinet member is craven and depraved enough to suit tRump. But Tillis avoids the question of why Miller has so much influence. I assume he’s the best at saying what Dear Leader wants to hear exactly how he wants to hear it. I bet the other lackeys take notes.
“It gives me pause that you had people like Stephen Miller calling the shots,” Tillis added. “It was Stephen Miller who said it was the position of the United States that we should go after Greenland. And Stephen Miller, that’s been repeatedly responsible for embarrassments for the President of the United States by acting too quickly speaking, first, and thinking later.”
I should not have to say this: Miller’s boss and the leader-for-life of Tillis’ party is infamous for his habit of firing off rants about vital national and international matters in the dead of night. His boss attacked Iran and can’t make up his mind why.
Miller is a nasty symptom a virulent disease called Trump. Not the other way around. But the 175th edition of the Revised Republican History of Everything will claim that Brave and Kindly King Theotrump could not send to Rohirrim to the rescue because he had been weakened by Stephen Wormtongue. Who was working for Saruman. Who had been subverted by Sauron. Once they figure out who Saruman and Sauron are, they will make sure that never happens again.
Tillis’ complaint is unlikely to come to anything. But remember, it is never the wrong time to root for multiple painful and ultimately fatal injuries.
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