(#5428) The republican party has sided with the tyrant putin!

      I often leave off punctuation marks at the end of my titles but not in this case. An exclamation point was needed to make sure there is no doubt as to my disgust and shame for what has become of the republican party. Ukraine through its President Zelenskyy was in Washington yesterday pleading with republican leaders for the aid package democrats have proposed to help Ukraine defeat the democracy destroying attempts of putin and his Russian allies. Well it was shown that the republican party is not an ally of democracy but instead an ally of Russia. We know that republicans are against democracy in principle through their actions here in America but to abandon Ukraine to Russia is another step down for them.
     The republican representatives in the Senate and House have enough power to stop the aid package from ever being voted on in an up or down fashion. The Senate rule that a 60 vote threshold has to be reached before a bill can be voted on with a simple majority clearance stops bills in the Senate as only 51 voting for democrats are available. So the republicans would need to provide 9 votes out of their 49 votes for the aid package bill to get to an up or down vote. Yet no republican will vote to help democracy in Ukraine. In the House the republicans have the slim majority but they won't vote to produce a bill of their own to help Ukraine.
     The idea that the republican party can thwart democracy in favor of the tyrant putin who is overjoyed by the republican stance to kill democracy is the furthest thing from being a hero. All American heroes who are/were, present and past defenders of democracy are as nothing to the republican party. The anti American republican party must be chastised and punished for their betrayal to the ideal of democracy. Those who vote for these anti American creatures are themselves an abomination to our constitution and our Declaration of Independence. These republican supporters are either ignorant in their own perceptions or are of the same stripe. The republican party wants to destroy democracy in Ukraine, much like they are trying to destroy democratic ideals here in America. The rest of us have a duty to stop them from doing either!