Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
While we read of world leaders using all their words and all their powers of persuasion to try and convince Congressional Republicans to help Ukraine in its freedom struggle against Russian aggression, we also get to read how these same folks are choosing instead to spend their time.
The new House Rules Committee chair will oversee his first meeting next week to review six bills of extreme importance to us and the world:
“Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
“Liberty in Laundry Act”
“Clothes Dryers Reliability Act”
“Refrigerator Freedom Act”
“Affordable Air Conditioning Act”
“Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act”
Whew. No wonder y’all need so many vacations.
Then Speaker Johnson, entreated by international powers and even his own party to just please do the right thing and pass security funding to help Ukraine (and by extension US as in U.S), will instead jet to Mar-a-Lago to talk about the non-issue of non-citizens being allowed to vote.
You know that’s not a thing, right? These are serious times but these are not serious players. We should demand better.
So I leave you with this observation, which I expect most of the world is agreeing with…
In The Bulwark, conservative commentator Mona Charen noted that Ukraine president Volodomyr Zelensky this week warned the U.S. that Ukraine will lose the war against Russia’s aggression if it does not get U.S. aid.
“Putin seems to have pulled off the most successful foreign influence operation in American history,” Charen wrote. “If Trump were being blackmailed by Putin it’s hard to imagine how he would behave any differently. And though it started with Trump, it has not ended there. Putin now wields more power over the [Republicans] than anyone other than Trump…. [T]hey mouth Russian disinformation without shame. Putin,” she said, “must be pinching himself.”
