So now 43 Republiscum Senators have ignored their oaths to support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. These 43 Republiscum have endorsed the January 6th attack on the U. S. Capitol, defended the criminal who incited that attempted putsch and allowed an attack meant to do away with American democracy to spawn further attacks.
T. S. Eliot had it correct:
American democracy didn't entirely die today with the whimpering, simpering Republiscum of the Senate but we are picking up speed on the downhill roll toward Fascist Dictatorship. The brakes are not only off, the lines have been cut. There is nearly nothing to halt the rush toward Fascist Dictatorship. If not The Orange Führer it will be some other Republiscum Führer in waiting. Perhaps the Führer will be Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley or some as yet unknown craven villain who wishes nothing but power and has no regard for decency or law.
To return to Eliot's Gerontion once more, the Republiscum who acquitted The Orange Führer, they...
The 43 Republiscum, the hollow men and women voted alphabetically as follows:
- John Barrasso (WY)
- Marsha Blackburn (TN)
- Roy Blunt (MO)
- John Boozman (AR)
- Mike Braun (IN)
- Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
- John Cornyn (TX)
- Tom Cotton (AR)
- Kevin Cramer (ND)
- Mike Crapo (ID)
- Ted Cruz (TX)
- Steve Daines (MT)
- Joni Ernst (IA)
- Deb Fischer (NE)
- Lindsey Graham (SC)
- Chuck Grassley (IA)
- Bill Hagerty (TN)
- Josh Hawley (MO)
- John Hoeven (ND)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
- James M. Inhofe (OK)
- Ron Johnson (WI)
- John Kennedy (LA)
- James Lankford (OK)
- Mike Lee (UT)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (WY)
- Roger Marshall (KS)
- Mitch McConnell (KY)
- Jerry Moran (KS)
- Rand Paul (KY)
- Rob Portman (OH)
- James E. Risch (ID)
- Mike Rounds (SD)
- Marco Rubio (FL)
- Rick Scott (FL)
- Tim Scott (SC)
- Richard C. Shelby (AL)
- Dan Sullivan (AK)
- John Thune (SD)
- Thom Tillis (NC)
- Tommy Tuberville (AL)
- Roger F. Wicker (MS)
- Todd Young (IN)
Following his vote to acquit The Failed Orange Führer of the high crime of trying to invalidate a free and fair election by sponsoring and inciting an armed insurrection at the U. S. Capitol, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a speech excoriating The Failed Orange Führer for exactly those crimes. Some might be willing to gloss over McConnell's reaction as "cognitive dissonance". Some, less kind and more psychologically oriented, might say that McConnell is "bipolar". His attack on The Failed Orange Führer is neither of those facile things. The attack was simply McConnell's baying at the Republiscum electorate that he's now the pack leader of these curs. (My apologies to dogs, even the worst of them, for the insult to all canines that a comparison to Mitch McConnell entails. Then again, I'd have to apologize to reptiles had I compared him to some particularly obnoxious reptile.)
Some neo-Nazis speak of "taking over the Republican Party". Those idiots are 60+ years too late. As late as 1974 there were remnants of a "Republican Party" but that ceased to exist by the time we had reached 1996. The old money, Republiscum Old Guard (now asking themselves what happened in meetings of The Lincoln Project) that had been bankrolling the Tea Party and Birther loonies convinced themselves that they, and their sock puppets like Mitch McConnell, still controlled the Republiscum Party that they had lovingly built out of racists, bigots, neo-Nazis and other scum over decades. They stitched together the Evangelicals, anti-abortionists, gun nuts and conspiracy cultists into a large minority and then committed themselves to suppressing voters in the good, old fashioned way that Strom Thurmond, John Stennis, George Smathers, Richard Russell, William Rhenquist and George Wallace had done in the 1950s and 60s. Keeping legitimate, mostly minority voters out of polling places gave the look and tallies of a majority to their minority party.
What the Republiscum Old Guard in their wealth and entitlement hadn't foreseen was that this Frankenstein monster they had built would go off on its own to lay waste the countryside and, incidentally, the Capitol building, at the behest of one they considered a loud-mouthed one of their own, The Failed Orange Führer.
The Old Guard Republiscum and Mitch McConnell are no more in control of the Republiscum Party than I am. They, like the Krupps, Mengeles, von Witzlebens and Hugenbergs in the Germany of 1933 sit in, let's call it a skybox, overseeing the chaos below and thinking that they control the monster they've unleashed. Down in the field of retail politics they are not in control of their monster's rampage. They will find out how little control they have only when the monster breaks down the door to their "skybox" and defenestrates the lot of them. Let's hope, for our own sakes even though it save the Kochs, Mercers and Mellon-Scaifes among others, that we have our own Nürnberg Trials before the monster does yet more damage.
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