Is the GOP Un-American?

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the bill's sponsor, announced earlier Tuesday that [Maine Republican Senator Susan] Collins had signed onto the bill, saying that Congress needed "to make it clear for presidential campaigns going forward: if a foreign power contacts you attempting to interfere in our elections, you call the FBI."

But her support comes as election security legislation has emerged as an increasingly partisan fight in the Senate. Republicans have blocked attempts by Democrats to pass House bills, arguing that they are meant to politically benefit Democrats.

  The Hill

So what they're saying is they can't win without foreign assistance. That's a sad admission.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted his critics on Tuesday accusing them of “lying” and “modern-day McCarthyism.” Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) fired back that the GOP leader should bring a bill up for a vote if he didn’t like the criticism.

Mitch McConnell’s foot-stomping screed on the Senate floor over the nickname “Moscow Mitch” caused the tag to trend Tuesday on Twitter.

The Senate Majority Leader slammed attacks against him as “modern-day McCarthyism” after MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, gave McConnell the pet name for blocking two election security measures late last week.

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“I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of bold-faced lies," he said in the Senate floor. "I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man I’ve singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, Vladimir Putin.

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His denunciation of the moniker only re-fueled the online fire and set #MoscowMitch trending once again on Tuesday.

A pair of similar hashtags, #MoscowMitchMcTreason and #MoscowMitchUnAmericanTraitor, also shot to the top of the trending chart on Twitter along with memes and pictures of McConnell dressed as a Russian soldier.

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The majority leader reacted quite differently the last time he was bestowed with a not-so-endearing nickname.

Don Blankenship, a failed Senate candidate from West Virginia, released a campaign advertisement last year labeling McConnell “Cocaine Mitch” insinuating that a shipping company owned by relatives of his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was involved in shady business.

McConnell’s campaign embraced the label, selling bright red T-shirts featuring a faceless figure over the name “MITCH” with a sprinkling of cocaine blowing around for $35-a-pop.

  NY Daily News

Jesus.




So ignorant he has no idea that sounds like an admission of ignorance.

Why does he always give these mini press conferences under the screaming of a helicopter engine so that everybody - including him - has to shout to be heard?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Interesting note:  Rule of Law is a Republican organization.

Because they can't win if they don't cheat.