Good for him.

That’s what I’ve been saying about the Tennessee legislature for years.

that it means nothing in the moment and means nothing going forward.

Anyone looking for a GOP hero needs to look elsewhere. Corker's a shill from head to toe.

Jonathan Martin & Mark Landler in the NYT - Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.”

It’s What Bob Corker Does Next That Counts

This situation is not normal. It is not safe. And the group which for now has a monopoly on legislative and investigative power in Washington, Corker’s own Republican Party, has an obligation to the country’s past and its future to do something about it. Talk is better than nothing, but action is what counts

It is good that a Republican Senator is finally speaking the truth about Trump. It is a shame that it takes retiring to give someone elected to Congress the guts to stand up for what is right. Men and women who represent the citizens of our country in Congress have a moral responsibility to condemn a dishonest and crazy person that threatens our democracy and could cause World War III. Corker reveals what is obvious to any reasonable person. The overwhelming majority of Congress thinks Trump is mentally ill and a dangerous leader. The only reason most are not speaking out is fear of not being re-elected. It is disappointing that many good and decent members of Congress are not taking a moral stand against a mentally unstable President. I hope they all will grow a spine soon before it is too late.

Having recently place my mother into a Senior Center, with numberous daily activities for those struggling with Dimentia, I find Corker's remarks wholly and completely insensitive to those care facilities that attempt to bring a quality of life to those struggling with mental memory impairment and disease. Corker's elitist life and attitudes no longer represent the values of rank and file hard working Tennesseans and he should go back to Chattanooga count his millions, count his blessings, and find something else to do other than offend people with his insensitive and short (he is very short) sighted remarks.

Trump no longer wants to compare IQs with Tillerson, Sec. of State. It was a joke. Well, duh!

Bob Corker Is Responsible for Trumpism, Too

Habitues of the shebeen better get used to this right now because I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot of this. Desperate conservative Republicans trying to get out from under this president* by pretending they weren't complicit in the entire decades-long accommodation with unreason and fanaticism that made a president* like him not only possible, but inevitable. We're going to see a lot of people claiming immunity from the prion disease with bits of the monkeybrains still visible on their chins. We will not be buying this here in this establishment, nor will we be buying the argument that "reasonable conservatives" will save us from the catastrophe in which they all are wholly complicit, and that certainly includes Bob Corker, who thought Scott Pruitt was aces for the EPA job, and who thought Merrick Garland unfit for the Supreme Court because a Democratic president had nominated him, and who is now crawling from the wreckage he helped create.

Perhaps the eye only exists when one is running for re-election in a red-state, not so much when tapping out.

Corker is an easy target on policy and enabling like when he applauded the foreign policy that he now so fervently opposes.

I would suggest the necessary question is - how is Trump removed from office? Beyond the most tribal minds, more and more, like Corker, are coming late to - but nevertheless arriving at - the point where they've seen enough to strongly consider what happens when a malignant like Trump unravels, has a psychotic split and sets the world on fire because he "hates everyone." Minus the russian trolls, to many (most?) of us in these pages that he was unfit for office was apparent back when the earth formed. However the likelihood of the left wing of the political spectrum doing anything about Trump's removal in the vital near term is about as likely as (insert UT football joke here ________). This is where, as much as we dislike him for solid reasons, a guy like Corker comes into play. As Bannon knows all too well, the threat of impeachment is lower than the threat that Trump is ousted by his cabinet in a 13 to 24 vote employing the 25th amendment. The opportunist who is also the chair of the Senate foreign relations prolly has a little sway with those folks.

David Frum happened to put it decently recently on O'Donnell's show saying there is a "sick and perverse dynamic" where "the tipping point is always the people who are the biggest opportunists, when you lose the opportunists then you're really in trouble".

Clearly the President* (h/t Charles P) has lost at least one those for the moment. What remains to be seen is whether he acts differently for an important second or just yawns mouth full of prion infested monkey brains dribbling onto his chin. As much as I can't stand the guy politically he's got a much better shot than any Democratic or Democratic Socialist Senator convincing the cabinet that Trump is dangerous an observation which is not exactly of the peanut gallery variety.

Could Corker have split because he's planning to run against Trump in the next primary?

I had assumed Corker retired because A) the Kochs were primarying him and B) he polled at 30% in TN.

I'm not sure how the Moore primary win contributed. Does it mean Corker isn't mean enough to win the TN R vote?

No doubt in my mind he will be running for Prez. For a while in early 2016 Corker was on all the talk shows and it seemed he was auditioning for the job. But too many ums and ers. The man needs eloquence coaching.