OK. Time to turn the national spotlight on Mitch McConnell to ask some serious questions. Today’s burning one of course is – Why won’t McConnell let the Senate vote on the bill to open up the government which was passed in the House? If it passed, it would force Trump to veto it – making him look like the obvious guilty party that he is. It would put more pressure on Trump and certainly hasten the government opening. So why the refusal from McConnell? His stance makes him a co-equal partner with Trump as the shutdown increases the burdens on people, businesses and now the safety of the flying public. (See the next article.)
Greg Sargent, in this excellent article in The Salt Lake Tribune today, asks this question and an even a broader one. In the past two years at critical stages in the Russian interference saga why has McConnell worked to enable Trump when evidence pointed to Trump’s national security malfeasance? This enabling does not qualify as simply a Senate Majority Leaders supporting the President of the same party. Rather McConnell’s decisions to acquiesce to Trump involved matters concerning the nation’s safety where partisanship should not play a role.
Sargent points to another example of McConnell’s dangerous enabling. McConnell has maintained his absolute refusal to allow the bill to protect Mueller be taken up in the Senate. After more and more information keeps being revealed about the scope of the Russian interference in the election, and the many Russian contacts by Trump officials, the Mueller investigation findings has escalated to the peak of national security importance
Yet McConnell stands firm on not bringing up the bill to keep Mueller safe for a vote. Sargent even suggests the plausibility that McConnell may have been told that the FBI had opened an investigation on Trump’s support of Russia over that of the U.S. If true, McConnell’s thwarting of the protect Mueller bill, looks even more questionable..
Now is the time to clog the government lines with demands that McConnell allow a vote on the government shutdown in the Senate. Lets call Stabenow, Bergman and Peters and register our grievance.. Send McConnell an email (could not get through on phone). senator@mcconnell.senate.gov Let him know how his obstruction of the protect Mueller bill and the opening of the government bill are no longer defensible.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/c ommentary/2019/01/14/greg-sargent-trump-is/
Another reason why the government needs to open.Here is a short article detailing a scary incident on a flight out of Atlanta yesterday from Daily Kos..
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/14/1826096/-Thanks-Trump-TSA-Slips-Up-Big-Time-Woman-Boards-Plane-With-Gun-and-Ammunition-in-Atlanta