Corker is alone

At least in the public forum. If any Republican's who wish to jump on the Harvey Weinstein horror show convey in the slightest that his victims should have come forward decades ago may also reveal themselves to be the same people who cower in the back of the room, shaking, terrified to say anything about the mental fitness of DJT's ability to be president. The hypocrisy gets louder and louder.

Corker is not running for reelection.  If he was he would be spineless as well.

FilmCarp said:

Corker is not running for reelection.  If he was he would be spineless as well.

...which points up the hypocrisy even more. 

Kinda like all the cons hopping on the Weinstein bandwagon after silence about Ailes, O'Reilly, and other reptiles at Fox.

Hey, he's just saying what all the other Republicans are thinking......

Stupid question. I always wonder, what's the big deal (to them) if they don't get re-elected? We all quit jobs, change jobs, get fired from jobs. Many times we do so to maintain our integrity. It's not like any of them will go hungry and lose their homes if they don't get re-elected. They will all get other jobs AND maintain their integrity.

It's power. They are not willing to give up the power and the perks. They feel as though once on the other side of the door, they are unable to get things done. Sad part is, on the inside, they are not getting anything done. It doesn't matter, in or out.

shoshannah said:

Stupid question. I always wonder, what's the big deal (to them) if they don't get re-elected? We all quit jobs, change jobs, get fired from jobs. Many times we do so to maintain our integrity. It's not like any of them will go hungry and lose their homes if they don't get re-elected. They will all get other jobs AND maintain their integrity.

kibbegirl said:

It's power. They are not willing to give up the power and the perks. They feel as though once on the other side of the door, they are unable to get things done. Sad part is, on the inside, they are not getting anything done. It doesn't matter, in or out.

shoshannah said:

Stupid question. I always wonder, what's the big deal (to them) if they don't get re-elected? We all quit jobs, change jobs, get fired from jobs. Many times we do so to maintain our integrity. It's not like any of them will go hungry and lose their homes if they don't get re-elected. They will all get other jobs AND maintain their integrity.

It's such a losing thought process. Being an elected official is by far not the only way to accumulate power.

This reminds me of a story about "Saturday Night Live" when the women in the cast were being mistreated. They got together with some sympathetic male cast members and everyone agreed that the they'd present a unified front with the producers.

The cast member who was designated as the spokeswoman made her points in the meeting, and the men all shriveled, cowed into silence by the presence of the bosses.

Afterward, the woman who had stood up was livid and confronted the male cast members:

"I didn't hear any of you backing me up!"

"Well, you didn't hear us not backing you up, did you?"

Anybody who spoke truth to power in your career, risking the loss of a job you loved, let’s hear about it.

Just my two cents, fwiw -

Corker is extremely wealthy (so he doesn't need the job).  He also doesn't need the job to have a megaphone to try to influence policy.

I think he's setting himself up as a Trump alternative.  He's playing a "long game" (or maybe not so long, if GOP disillusionment with Trump grows in the run up to 2020).  I think he's going to try to "inherit" the McCain republicans, to add to his base.  

In short, I don't think his retirement from the Senate is the last we'll hear from Bob Corker.

I once called a boss that I thought I was friendly enough with a hypocrite in a quarterly review once and mentioned some general things that other employees had complained about (nothing salacious, just things people were constantly frustrated about that didn't fit with what he was claiming was his management style) and he didn't believe me that others thought that way. He started surveying the employees and asking their opinions, and of course people weren't going to be upfront with him about it. That was the beginning of the end there, and this was a situation where I was telling truths and it was a non-sensitive subject (no sexual harassment, nothing potentially illegal or unethical was going on).

DaveSchmidt said:

Anybody who spoke truth to power in your career, risking the loss of a job you loved, let’s hear hear about it.

I went to Human Resources about some issues with my boss. I was not the only one in my group that experienced these issues.  After outlining several things, the HR rep just kept turning things back on me, "did you try this?" or "why don't you do this differently."  After I told the rep one specific statement my boss made to me, she just sighed as if there was nothing she could do about it.

It was then realized that HR's primary goal is to protect the company and not the individual employee.  I never bothered going to HR again and left the company within a couple of years.

qrysdonnell said:

I once called a boss that I thought I was friendly enough with a hypocrite in a quarterly review once and mentioned some general things that other employees had complained about (nothing salacious, just things people were constantly frustrated about that didn't fit with what he was claiming was his management style) and he didn't believe me that others thought that way. He started surveying the employees and asking their opinions, and of course people weren't going to be upfront with him about it. That was the beginning of the end there, and this was a situation where I was telling truths and it was a non-sensitive subject (no sexual harassment, nothing potentially illegal or unethical was going on).

DaveSchmidt said:

Anybody who spoke truth to power in your career, risking the loss of a job you loved, let’s hear hear about it.

U.S. Senators are some of the most powerful people on the entire planet. There are very few ways to accumulate that much power.

shoshannah said:

kibbegirl said:

It's power. They are not willing to give up the power and the perks. They feel as though once on the other side of the door, they are unable to get things done. Sad part is, on the inside, they are not getting anything done. It doesn't matter, in or out.

shoshannah said:

Stupid question. I always wonder, what's the big deal (to them) if they don't get re-elected? We all quit jobs, change jobs, get fired from jobs. Many times we do so to maintain our integrity. It's not like any of them will go hungry and lose their homes if they don't get re-elected. They will all get other jobs AND maintain their integrity.

It's such a losing thought process. Being an elected official is by far not the only way to accumulate power.

I'm reading that there are rumblings in the senate from other Republicans. Whether they'll eventually act remains to be seen, and timing is essential.

I keep thinking about the Entmoot. I hope it isn't wishful thinking.

Tom_Reingold said:

I'm reading that there are rumblings in the senate from other Republicans. Whether they'll eventually act remains to be seen, and timing is essential.