demand a retraction from donald trump as a condition for dealing with him. and if they don't, the truth will suffer once again and the future of governance in this country will take yet another turn for the worse. it is against most professional politicians' nature to be confrontational in these situations. they are compromisers by nature, especially in the congressional leadership, and especially when the rationale for compromise is for the good of the country, as it always is when trying to avoid a government shutdown, which is now 11 days away. if congress doesn't pass some kind of spending bill. but sometimes what is more important to the good of the country is not what happens if the government doesn't function properly tomorrow. but what happens to the fundamental integrity of the governing process. and that has been irredeemably corrupted by the lies of donald