Letters We Wish We'd Written Dept.

In today's Washington Post:

Paul Kane’s March 18 @PKCapitol column,“Retirement frees congressional Republicans to break with Trump-era party,” said that retiring gives Republican Reps. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida and Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona “the freedom to speak their minds, about Trump and their congressional leaders.” They and the rest of the GOP have always had that freedom. They have just chosen to keep quiet so as not to jeopardize their reelections. For them, it’s party first and the American people second. 

We should not congratulate these retirees for their honesty. Nor should we forget the complicity Republicans and their leaders have exercised in turning a convenient blind eye to the destruction of the American ideal. The poor and middle class are being hurt by the actions of the Trump administration, to say nothing of the disenfranchised. This sad period of history will eventually end. But we won’t forget when that day of reckoning is upon us.  

Jeff Gates, Silver Spring

They're a party of cowards and collaborators.  Never forget that.

Wow! That's Not A BOMBSHELL, Cadet Bone Spurs (And You Know It)

The evermore desperate compulsion of un- indicted co- conspirator and Putin asset Donald "Rump" Trump to distract and discredit revealed itself again today.  Playing off a piece of agitprop from water carrier Ed Henry at Fox "News," Cadet Bone Spurs thought he 'sploded the latest BOMBSHELL! that would lead to his total vindication!

Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught having extensive contact with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a “paper trail” on a “private” meeting (in London) he requested with Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into Crooked Hillary.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2018

Not so fast, nitwit!  You need to stop playing with those dud BOMBSHELLS!

You see, several hours earlier, none other than Republican Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (R- Ambition) had already 'sploded the BOMBSHELL! right back in Fox's and Cadet Bone Spurs' faces:

Sen.Warner fully disclosed this to the committee four months ago.Has had zero impact on our work. https://t.co/bnmI2Thedt #FoxNews

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 9, 2018

Not to be outdone, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. Warner also issued a joint statement popping the latest distraction balloon (but not until the original BOMBSHELL! distraction was making all the headlines in the right- wing media bubble).  Via TPM:

“From the beginning of our investigation, we have taken each step in a bipartisan way, and we intend to continue to do so. Leaks of incomplete information out of context by anyone, inside or outside our committee, are unacceptable,” Burr and Warner said in the statement. “The Senate Intelligence Committee has been in possession of this material for several months. The full committee has had access to the material and been brief on its content, and committee investigators have pursued all relevant investigative leads related to this material.”

Three things:  investigation- obsessed Cadet Bone Spurs basically has "consciousness of guilt" tattooed on his forehead at this point;  second, the vast majority of the right- wing media (Fox "News," Washington Times, The Blaze and all the other lickspittle fauna in that hothouse of treason, bigotry and stupidity) are going to actively follow this utterly compromised, unfit, authoritarian nitwit down whatever rabbit hole in which he decides to take refuge; and third, there may be enough Republicans -- especially on the Senate committees -- who have been privy to enough classified material to keep them from embracing Cadet Bone Spurs and his increasingly transparent efforts to stop the investigations.

Photo Of The Day - Complicit Weasels

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On the same day as his notorious tweets, and days after more evidence of his complete unfitness for office, A Very Stable Genius holds a press conference at Camp David where his Republican "leadership" is plotting its 2018 agenda. They know he's not well, they know none of this is normal, and yet... there they are literally and figuratively standing behind him in their dress casual dickwear.*

History will not look kindly on these complicit bootlicks: (left to right) Sen. John Cornyn, House Speaker Paul Ryan, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Mike Pence, A Very Stable Genius, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Steve Scalise, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

* What are the odds that the Very Stable Genius told the bootlicks to go casual so that he could dress up and one-up them?

(Photo: Yuri Gripas, Reuters)