I'd have to go find it, but the leaked sessions of the last meetings are actually where I get the strong sense that they're well aware they're already at the very least teetering precariously over trouble, or at least the smart ones are. They're already trying to figure out how to spin shit, up to and including the . . .what to even call it? It's not defunding, it's blocking medicare users from using, Planned Parenthood - they already KNOW that's unpopular and aren't sure how to spin it, and the leaked documents pretty clearly showed they're already scared about the knock-on effects of the immigration ban/etc.
I identify it as "tharn" because it's still in that stage of "if we hold very frozen still maybe the bad will go away" - it's not yet the mad sinking-ship-rat-scramble, it's the "FREEZE AND MAYBE THE PREDATOR WON'T SEE US?"instead. Dithering, basically. Because the thing is, opposing him is ALSO going to fuck them over - there ARE people who approve of them, and mostly those are the people they can count on to vote Republican. They just can't ONLY skate by on those people. So they're between a rock and a hard place.
Gallups was the highest of the ratings, tho, which was the 42 one - the others were in the thirties, and he'd dropped 8 points even on Gallup by the second day of the presidency. And even that much is shockingly lower than any recent president at this point in his term (ie less than two full weeks in).
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I identify it as "tharn" because it's still in that stage of "if we hold very frozen still maybe the bad will go away" - it's not yet the mad sinking-ship-rat-scramble, it's the "FREEZE AND MAYBE THE PREDATOR WON'T SEE US?"instead. Dithering, basically. Because the thing is, opposing him is ALSO going to fuck them over - there ARE people who approve of them, and mostly those are the people they can count on to vote Republican. They just can't ONLY skate by on those people. So they're between a rock and a hard place.
Gallups was the highest of the ratings, tho, which was the 42 one - the others were in the thirties, and he'd dropped 8 points even on Gallup by the second day of the presidency. And even that much is shockingly lower than any recent president at this point in his term (ie less than two full weeks in).