Barbara Boxer: I Long for Republicans Like Mickey Edwards; Today’s Republicans Are All Lap Dogs for Trump

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BOXER: "There’s no surprise at the way they’re acting, whether these Republicans — and I say to my friend Mickey how I long for Republicans like him because he was an independent voice. But we have these lap dogs, they’re all lap dogs for this president, they’re scared to death of him because he’s so popular with an increasingly right-wing base so that’s why they don’t want to talk and the reality that faces the American people. Ali, here’s the thing. The Supreme Court is the last stop on the American justice train. There is nothing more important than this kind of appointment. It ought to be somebody who can pull more than 51 votes, it ought to be someone that can garner the respect of all sides because every issue that America cares about, whether it’s health care for their families, human rights, civil rights, who they can love and marry, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose, does she have that respect, she has it now, will she lose it? These are critical questions, but my Republican friends are hypocritical because as we know Mcconnell said clearly let’s weight 11 months and not allow Barack Obama to ha appointment but is silent on that issue when it comes to trump. We’ll rush it through, ram it through and trump get to pick a juror on his trial. Wrong."