QOTD -- The Russo-Republican Party

"Had public life in America not been completely deformed by blizzards of official lies, right-wing propaganda and the immovable wall of Republican bad faith, the Mueller report would have ended Trump’s minoritarian presidency. Instead, something utterly perverse happened. Democrats, deflated by the Mueller report’s anticlimactic rollout, decided to move on rather than keep the focus on Trump’s world-historic treachery. Republicans, meanwhile, started screaming about a 'Russia hoax' ostensibly perpetrated on their dear leader. Among them was the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, who in 2016 was surreptitiously recorded telling his congressional colleagues that he thinks President Vladimir Putin of Russia pays Trump. 'Swear to God,' he said at the time. [snip]

"Rather, it’s Republicans, with their heroic capacity for shamelessness, who want to talk about Russia. They’ve set out to investigate the investigators, trying to make efforts to uncover the truth about Trump’s Russia connections, rather than the connections themselves, into a scandal. And now they’re trying to expand their big lie about Russia to cover Ukraine as well. The president, McCarthy said last month, 'was trying to get to the bottom, just as every American would want to know, why did we have this Russia hoax that actually started within Ukraine.'”  -- Michelle Goldberg, writing about "Republicans' Big Lie About Trump and Russia."   People like McCarthy and Republican Sen. John "Cornpone" Kennedy (see below) are but a few of the reasons why the corrupt, rotted- out Russo- Republican Party needs to be utterly defeated at every level at every election, and the ground salted over their political grave.