Here’s one for you:
Really there have been seven votes, however the seventh was Liz Cheney, whose workplace mentioned her vote was a fuckup and she or he’s going to repair it. So it is these six.
A bit more in regards to the invoice:
The bill, launched within the Home on March 29 and sponsored by GOP Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, seeks to “direct the President to undergo Congress a report on United States Authorities efforts to gather, analyze, and protect proof and data associated to warfare crimes and another atrocities dedicated throughout the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022.”
The invoice, titled the Ukraine Invasion Warfare Crimes Deterrence and Accountability Act, asserts that Russian forces have deliberately attacked civilians and nonmilitary buildings, engaged in pointless wanton destruction of property, and unlawfully deported civilians and brought hostages.
Golly, we might spend an entire bunch of time attempting to offer “Paul Gosar” and “Marjorie Taylor Greene” the good thing about the doubt to seek out out if there is a good and mental (LOL) purpose they voted in opposition to saying out loud that Russia did warfare crimes and preserving proof of it, however that might be Chuck Todd ranges of journalistic malpractice. The proper reply is fuck these anti-American items of shit, and that’s truthful and balanced information you need to use.
Final evening, as congressmen had been talking earlier than the contempt votes against Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, Greene tried to heckle Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin. “What about Ashli Babbitt?” she grunted. “What about Russian collusion?” she shouted. So Raskin mentioned, nice, “I settle for the heckling,” and added, “That’s all proper as a result of if she needs to proceed to face with Vladimir Putin and his brutal bloody invasion in opposition to the individuals of Ukraine, she is free to take action. And we perceive there’s a robust Trump-Putin axis within the gentlelady’s get together.”
There certain is.
Earlier this week the Home passed a resolution to precise help for NATO. It known as Russia and China “authoritarian regimes” and blamed the warfare in Ukraine squarely on Russia. It known as on President Joe Biden to “use the voice and vote of the USA to determine a Middle for Democratic Resilience inside NATO headquarters.” And 63 Republicans managed to vote against that one!
It was all the rubbish listed above, plus other garbage like Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Matt Gaetz, Scott DeJarlais, Andrew Clyde, Louie Gohmert, Clay Higgins, Jim Jordan, Matt Rosendale, Troy Nehls, and a bunch of others. What’s their fucking downside? Will Saletan spent some time at The Bulwark going over all of the ideas and emotions of the Republican Anti-Ukraine Caucus earlier than the vote occurred.
After the vote, Aaron Blake on the Washington Publish tried to find out the very critical causes these congressmen could not carry themselves to say NATO is nice and Russia invading Ukraine was flawed and unjustified. He needed to scrape the underside of the barrel:
Among the many few Republicans to touch upon their vote was one of many get together’s most anti-NATO voices, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). He known as NATO “a relic of the Chilly Warfare” and requested, “Why ought to Individuals pay for Europe’s protection?”
Blake says GOP Rep. Warren Davidson, who was additionally one of many six who voted in opposition to preserving proof of warfare crimes, was a bit extra “nuanced.” We’ll grant a minimum of that he used extra large boy phrases than Massie did. He did not like how the invoice provided “unequivocal” help for NATO, and he additionally did not like two different elements. See when you can catch his drift:
“Undertake a brand new Strategic Idea for NATO that’s clear about its help for shared democratic values and dedicated to enhancing NATO’s capability to strengthen democratic establishments inside NATO member, companion, and aspirant international locations.”
“Use the voice and vote of the USA to determine a Middle for Democratic Resilience inside NATO headquarters.”
Of those provisions, Davidson mentioned, “America’s sovereignty is nonnegotiable. I think different international locations really feel the identical. … We needs to be strengthening the alliance, not reimagining it as a software to intrude in each other’s home politics.”
Wait, why would we want a invoice to strengthen democratic establishments inside NATO international locations?
Might a part of or not it’s as a result of, to tug a wild instance out of our asses, NATO member Hungary simply held a basically fake election to protect the facility of its Putin-adjacent autocrat fuckclown chief Viktor Orban, who is the darling of Putin fanboys and Christian supremacist shitweasels in America? You recognize, Hungary, the place CPAC is about to throw its large white get together in Might, with Orban as keynote speaker? As Blake notes, a minimum of one in every of these Republicans, Andy Harris of Maryland, said out loud that his vote was a minimum of partially about the way it was offensive to Hungary and Poland. (That man actually likes Orban.)
You see, this decision, simply after it calls out Russia and China, says NATO international locations face “inside threats from proponents of illiberalism.” So in different phrases, proponents of illiberalism who’re inside threats to America voted in opposition to a decision that known as out the inner threats NATO members face from proponents of illiberalism.
And now all of us get it. In actual fact, seen in that gentle, it is perhaps stunning that solely 63 Republicans voted in opposition to it.
These persons are actually fucking dangerous at “America.” We’re certain Putin appreciates their service, although.
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