Naming names

Several years ago a German friend of mine, looking at what the US electorate (or rather the country’s ridiculous electoral college system) had just unleashed on the world stage, said to me, “No one can now ask me how it was possible for the German people to elect Hitler.” 

And now the Tangerine Wankmaggot has given up all pretence, sounding increasingly unhinged and more and more like the Führer. 

The only thing more alarming than the Republican front runner referring to “vermin” and threatening to build camps into which he will place all his enemies is the appallingly large number of US citizens who are absolutely lapping this shit up.

It didn’t have to be this way. In January 2021 this menace could have been stopped in his tracks, prohibited from ever running for elected office again. All it needed was sixteen people to put the good of the nation above their own political careers. And, yes, I am talking about Republican senators.

Seven did just that: Richard Burr, North Carolina: Bill Cassidy of Louisiana; Susan Collins, Maine;  Lisa Murkowski, Alaska; Mitt Romney, Utah; Ben Sasse, Nebraska; and Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania.  The reasons they gave for their votes to impeach are provided in this article.  

As for the remaining 43 toadies, these 32, despite voicing criticism of the Wankmaggot in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection he’d inspired, found various mealy-mouthed excuses to vote against impeachment, as detailed here.

John Boozman, Arkansas

Shelly Moore Capito, West Virginia 

John Hoeven, North Dakota

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

Rob Portman, Ohio

Dan Sullivan, Arkansas

John Thune, South Dakota

John Cornyn, Texas

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Chuck Grassley, Iowa 

Mike Lee, Utah

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

John Barrasso, Wyoming

Roy Blunt, Missouri 

Steve Daines, Montana 

Joni Ernst, Iowa 

Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma 

James Lankford, Oklahoma 

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming 

Jim Risch, Idaho 

Mike Rounds, South Dakota 

Marco Rubio, Florida 

Rick Scott, Florida

Richard Shelby, Alabama

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama 

Roger Wicker, Missouri

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Todd Young, Indiana

Mike Braun, Indiana 

Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

These seven Republican senators offered nothing but statements of support for the Wankmaggot in explaining their decisions not to vote to impeach:

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Ted Cruz, Texas

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Roger Marshall, Kansas

And these four clowns offered no explanation whatsoever for their decisions to vote against impeachment:

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Tim Scott, South Carolina

You wanna talk about vermin? Look no further than these 43 names. The last eleven are complete no hopers. (It’s hard to believe I used to have a bit of a soft spot for that weasel Lindsey Graham.)

As for the other 32, I’d like to think at least nine of them are having trouble sleeping at night. Sadly, I doubt they are.