Senator
McConnell: I remain shocked and incredulous that you refused to send
two bills to the floor which would shore up our electoral security at
this most threatening time. I think you have shown a side of you that
is unethical, self centered and one who does not give a damn about this
nation except to secure your own next election and power. This time you
will not secure it. This above any other obstruction you have done remains the most egregious and almost, I dare say, treasonous.
We
have been told many times by our intelligence services and now
Republican Special Counsel Robert Mueller how Russia, a nation you and
Republicans thought an adversary for so long, has been involved in
breaching this nation's democratic electoral system the essence of what
our democracy is all about. They will continue to do so both here and
in Western Europe, Australia and all free democracies of the world.
Russia
does not give a damn about our nation, Trump or you except to use you
as compromat useful to their goals and that is sowing division among us
and electing a president Trump who takes the authoritarian Putin's side
over the
best information of our national intelligence agencies. Putin has
method to his madness and that is to recoup what Russia during
Gorbachev's Glasnost (a freeing up of Russia's autocratic norms) lost.
Communist Russia fell and lost its empire. It lost the Eastern European
nations like Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, East Berlin, the
Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, and more. Putin, a
former KGB agent, wants his empire back, the glory it would bring to him
and wants Russia on top of the international power pile. He is using
his best efforts at subverting this nation, the crown jewel of democracy
by sowing extremist nationalist discord, electing an American president
Trump who kisses Putin's ring, dismembering NATO and more. He is doing
this not only to us but to all western democracies. The Republican
Party, you in particular and, of course, Trump, are helping him do this.
Moreover,
Steve Bannon's original wish for supporting a populist right wing white
racist autocrat Trump and his power broker Putin is to make America
white again. His nefarious goal is part of the strategy too. You by
not allowing election security legislation are helping all of Putin's
goals. Please, quoting Joseph Welch at his finest moment during the
Army/McCarthy hearings against phony red bating by Joseph McCarthy "At
long last, sir, do you have no sense of decency left?"
I,
with intensity, ask you as part of a Republican Party which used to be
against Russian domination to bring these pieces of legislation to the
floor to secure our national elections which at this moment and beyond
Russia is trying to subvert and are at risk. Our nation and all
democratically elected nations are in peril. If you can do nothing
else for our democratic humanity do that. We are all in danger
including you! I believe you will lose your 30 year seat in 2020
because you are now on the wrong side of history! Bring this election
security legislation to the floor with all deliberate speed before it is
too late!
