Sullivan and the art of kowtowing to Trump
Sen. Dan Sullivan, who has mastered the art of kissing up to Trump, hopes that Alaskans won’t notice because his kowtowing almost always goes unreported in Alaska.
At a health care meeting in the White House covered on CSPAN Friday, Sullivan lavished praise on Trump with “yes sirs” and how he agreed with Trump that Trump doesn’t get enough credit on health care, etc.
Trump wanted to know about Murkowski, who was in Denmark trying to clean up Trump’s Greenland mess.
Trump wanted to know if Sullivan was going to get Murkowski to vote for the health care bill he claims he will produce.
“Are you going to get her to vote for the Great Big, Beautiful Health Care Bill that we're doing?” Trump asked four times. Perhaps Trump thinks that Sullivan should somehow force Murkowski to get in line.
Sullivan might have said that Murkowski will make her own decision about a bill that hasn’t been written.
Instead, Sullivan said, “We'll work on it, sir. Um -- we'll work on it.” Sullivan laughed, as did the audience of Trump flatterers and Dr. Oz, who reached over and patted Sullivan on the arm.
Rest assured that Sullivan will vote for whatever Trump wants. Murkowski might or might not. In her case, there is a chance of independent thought.
Trump’s insane Greenland obsession—the latest scam to distract from the Epstein files—has drawn repeated denunciations from Murkowski, but Sullivan can’t even manage a whimper.
Sullivan’s “Greenland is nice, but Alaska is better” pitch is moronic.
Trump announced this weekend he wants to slap a 10 percent tariff on products of eight European nations, rising to 25 percent June 1 if they continue to oppose his scheme to take over Greenland. The tariffs would be paid by Americans, not by Europeans.
The larger point is that this is an attack on our allies. And Sullivan is OK with it. Just as he is OK with every Trump attack on individual rights and every Trump attack on the Constitution.
“Congress must work together to reassert our Constitutional authority over tariffs so that they are not weaponized in ways that harm our alliances and undermine American leadership,” Murkowski said.=
Murkowski should start at home with calling on Sullivan to act. She gave her half-hearted endorsement to him days ago.
He will do nothing to reassert authority over tariffs that have been weaponized by Trump.
Trump took a break from golfing at his club to say Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face tariffs for refusing to bow to his demands.
“It is important to underscore that when you ask the American people whether or not they think it is a good idea for the United States to acquire Greenland, the vast majority — some 75 percent — will say we do not think that that is a good idea,” Murkowski said at a news conference Friday, according to wire service reports.
“This senator from Alaska does not think it is a good idea.”
“Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset,” Murkowski added.
Americans don’t want Greenland. Alaskans don’t want Greenland.
We are only having to deal with this because of the Epstein files and because Trump’s party controls the Congress, populated by sycophants like Sullivan.
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