Corker, fired up on floor, says GOP won’t let him get a vote on floor because they are scared about fighting w Trump. “We might poke the bear!” referring to Trump. “My gosh if the president gets upset with us we might not be in the majority,” he says, referring to his colleagues

Corker, fired up on floor, says GOP won’t let him get a vote on floor because they are scared about fighting w Trump. “We might poke the bear!” referring to Trump. “My gosh if the president gets upset with us we might not be in the majority,” he says, referring to his colleagues

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 12, 2018

I like and admire Corker, Flake, McCain for their willingness to publicly push back on Trump.

But it's hard to take this sort of comment seriously when (1) they could use their three votes to force the Senate to tangibly constrain Trump, and (2) they are not doing so. https://t.co/dLntUWW44H

— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) June 12, 2018