The GOP's new name should be: “Got Our Putin” based on the following very concerning article from NBC News with this headline (story edited and formatted to fit the blog):
“GOP Rep. Mike
Turner: Russian propaganda is being uttered on the House floor”
House Intelligence
Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) said several of his GOP colleagues have repeated
Russian propaganda on the House floor.
First watch this short YouTube video to go with the three slides above, then post below will make sense. The video is from FOX News via MSNBC in Trump’s own words – not mine or anyone else’s. His words and his alone; he owns them:
GOP Rep. Mike Turner
said in an interview on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday (April 7): “Russian
propaganda has taken hold among some of my House Republican colleagues. It is
even being uttered on the House floor that we see directly coming from Russia
... communications that are Anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we
even hear being uttered on the House floor. There are members of Congress today
who still incorrectly say that this conflict
between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not.”
[Note: Turner's
office did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for clarification about
which members of Congress he was referring to].
Turner’s comments come on the heels of remarks from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) who this week also mentioned how Russian propaganda has taken root among the GOP saying on Puck News: “I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
Turner and McCaul
each tied Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, to other authoritarian
leaders, including China’s President Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un,
with Turner telling CNN: “The propaganda makes it more difficult for us to
really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it
is with Xi and Putin identified as such.”
McCaul then described
explaining to colleagues that the threat of Russian propaganda is similar to
threats made by other U.S. adversaries, saying: “I have to explain to them
what’s at stake, why Ukraine is in our national security interest. By the way,
you don’t like Communist China? Well, guess what? They’re aligned with Russia,
along with the Ayatollah of Iran. So when you explain it that way, they kind of
start understanding it.”
The committee chairs'
remarks about Russian propaganda came as they also spoke about the need for
Congress to approve more military aid to Ukraine, with Turner telling CNN:
“Ukraine needs our help and assistance now, and this is a very critical time
for the U.S. Congress to step up and provide that aid.”
The House GOP has stalled all efforts to pass Ukraine aid,
with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refusing to put an aid package the Senate passed in
February that would provide resources to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on the
House floor.
Also last week, Bacon said on NBC “Meet the Press”
that he had commitments from Johnson and McCaul that they
would allow a bipartisan Ukraine military aid package to advance to a vote.
[NOTE: Bacon also
warned that Johnson could face a vote to oust him from the speakership if he
moves forward with Ukraine aid].
Rep. French Hill (R-AR) echoed that point on CBS “Face the Nation saying: “I believe Johnson will bring Ukraine aid to the floor immediately after completing the work on FISA bill extension. That has a deadline of April 19 and that makes it a priority for the first few days we're back. I believe he's fully committed to bringing it up to the floor immediately thereafter.”
Turner also downplayed
the notion that Johnson's position was at risk over Ukraine aid saying: “I
don't think he's at any risk. I think that what people have been referring to
as the “chaos caucus,” those individuals who are seeking attention for
themselves and trying to stop all of the important work in Congress, are now
seen as merely disruptive.”
Hey, all you GOP chairmen mentioned in the above story, what do have to say about this story now breaking from the top contender for president from the GOP in 2024 (at least for now)?
Check out this
startling headline story from USA TODAY from Trump:
“Trump reportedly would pressure Ukraine
into ceding land to Russia to end war”
Who in their right mind
could ever imagine any American president – or any American running for president
– who would advocate such a crazy thing as: Telling a country that had been
invaded and attacked like Ukraine was by Russia, and then tell now to give up
and give in to the ones who invaded them?
Well that’s what Trump said is how he would end the war in Ukraine in 5
words: “JUST GIVE UP TO PUTIN.”
Noteworthy: Democrats meanwhile have signaled that they could join several Republicans in helping to save Johnson's
speakership if a motion to vacate, such as the one that was filed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA)
before the two-week Easter recess, were brought to a vote.
My 2 Cents: Finally some
level-headed Republicans are popping up and sounding off about the nutty
members of their own so-called “chaos caucus” (their label, not mine) are actually now sounding rational and a big normal - good for them, too I say.
I just hope it’s not too
late for the good of the country and not for the nutty members now in this
GOP-run House.
We shall see, but we also know that more than half of the GOP now is tainted and infected not only with Putin-style propaganda, but downright craziness, too.
Hopefully the voters will
in fact give those radicals the boot in November – fingers crossed on that. But, it would be at least good for the country and not lop-sided GOP politics per se. We shall
see.
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