As I reluctantly sip my day-old coffee this morning, I am nodding my head in agreement with George Will, the venerable, and very articulate conservative who was one of the first old establishment legends to have the courage and integrity to split with Trump.
His latest work of 'heresy' is to suggest that it is time to purge the Republicans from Washington, specifically the Senate,
and rebuild the thing into a viable party again. To quote from his column yesterday,
"Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for … what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body."
His anger continues, "In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies..." I love the term "invertebrates" since many of us have been been pained by the absence of any backbone from his enablers that has resulted in a body under the thumb of Mitch McConnell who has his head so far up Cheeto's ass that we can see him coming out his nose.
Is the final indignity the removal of any checks and balances with the purge of five inspector generals? It is unimaginable that congress (the Senate) would sit silently as the executive branch rapes and pillages the landscape without independent audit of its behavior. Taxpayers should be enraged that this is happening while the Senate idly sits by and "sheds it principles."
Hear hear George Will.
Now that I did justice to yesterday's blend, it is time to make a fresh batch.