Meet the Press is the kind of Sunday talk show that Republican senators would usually climb over each other’s bodies to go on. But not this week. “We invited every single Republican senator to appear here on Meet the Press this morning,” host Chuck Todd said. “They all declined.”
It wasn’t some kind of Meet the Press boycott, either. The only Sunday talk show to snag a Republican member of Congress was Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. Gee, what could they possibly be afraid of answering questions about?
Could it be Donald Trump refusing to concede that he lost, and holding up the transition even as doing so could slow down the process of distributing COVID-19 vaccines? This means that Donald Trump being a sore loser could literally kill people. Talk about a tough question for Republicans to answer. Anyway, they’ve let us know why they won’t stand up to him, as if we needed the confirmation: "We need his voters" in the Georgia Senate runoffs, Senate Majority Whip John Thune said last week.
Control of the Senate is on the line. Can you chip in $3 each to Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock?
Republicans have spent the past four years doing Trump’s bidding, whether because they liked what they got from him enough to overlook what they didn’t like, or because secretly even those of them who sometimes pretend disapproval at his worst abuses are in their heart of hearts on board with every bit of Trump’s Trumpiness.
And now, with national security and pandemic response on the line in a presidential transition, they’re still unwilling to challenge him. Be it simple fear, be it agreement with his efforts to overturn the results of the election, be it those two Georgia Senate seats, Republicans are not willing to do the right thing.
That tells you what to expect if they hold the Senate on Jan. 5: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will keep upholding the basic values Trump has brought to the table. McConnell will obstruct and blockade and prevent President Biden from getting anything done for the nation. Republicans will hurt the public in order to hurt Democratic election chances going forward, just as they are right this instant hurting the public by not challenging Trump to accept his defeat and begin the transition process. Republicans will do anything to win. But Democrats have to find a way to beat them.
Source: Daily Kos
No comments:
Post a Comment