June 26, 2019: Welcoming Russian Interference, Ultimate Partisan Hack, Thirty Million Rubles

“Russia, if your listening”...intoned the modern Benedict Arnold as he issued a clarion call to a foreign adversary to come to his political rescue. But Caesar Disgustus was not the only one.

Jamelle Bouie writing in The New York Times attempts to answer the question of why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomes Russian interference.

“Why won't Mitch McConnell protect our elections from outside interference?” (1) Good question.

Noting bipartisan support for measures to, among other things, require Facebook and other mediums to disclose those who purchase political ads and impose “mandatory sanctions on anyone who attacks an American election” (2) McConnell, nevertheless, refuses to allow any such measure to come before the Senate. Why?

The easiest explanation, according to Bouie, is fearing the wrath of GOP or, its present incarnation, tRUMP. McConnell, according to this reasoning, is fearful of raising the issue lest Disgustus go off in a rage because even the hint of Rooskie involvement brings the legitimacy of this president* into question.

The second explanation is that as long as our orange Caesar retrieves from the slag-heap judicial nominees suitable to the knuckle-dragging political base, then Disgustus serves his purpose.

The third possible explanation is that McConnell has always been a common political curb-crawler. As Bouie points out, Mitch was a strong advocate of campaign reform until he reasoned that such reform would favor his opponents. At one time McConnell was pro labor until he realized that his political party is no friend of the working man. Ditto Pro-Choice. According to this line of reasoning McConnell, blissfully unencumbered by any principles or ethics, is the ultimate partisan hack.

All of these are plausible arguments. But what went unmentioned in the essay was the most important and obvious: The ReSCUMlickans are beholden to the Rooskies. It was the political contributions the Russians had made in 2016 to McConnell and his Republican Senate Re-election Committee—the clearinghouse of Republican efforts to retain control of the Senate. Likewise, there were no mentions of the contributions made by the Rooskies to several Republican U.S. Senate campaigns. This is what holds the Senate Republicans together. Quash the investigation, turn a blind eye to the clear and present national security threat facing our electoral system, pretend and insist that 'there is no there...there” because to admit the obvious, to investigate it, would reveal the lengths and depths to which the conservative movement will go in order to hold power.

This is what the ReSCUMlickan congressional caucuses have in common with tRUMP. They have all accepted directly, or indirectly, the assistance of a foreign adversary. Disgustus received tens of millions from the Russians, laundered through the National Rifle Association. So did McConnell and the RNC. That's why Congressional ReSCUMlickans, nearly every man and woman, have not come to the aid of their country. They have sold Lady Liberty for thirty million Rubles.

“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison

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1. Bouie, Jamelle. “Mitch McConnell, Too, Welcomes Russian Interference” The New York Times. Friday, June 14, 2019. Page A22
2. Ibid