A Senate Majority Leader that isn't interested in fixing the problems that allow foreign interference in the country's elections; is not worthy of the job. Every American should be up in arms to realize the work of the Special Counsel is being ignored when it comes to USA sovereign elections. This is outrageous and McConnell believes that reform would hurt his party's chances in future elections. What does that say about the Republican Party when it comes to safeguarding USA sovereignty?
People should be afraid, very afraid.
June 10, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
The House Judiciary Committee (click here) held hearings today on the Mueller report and its devastating findings of the Trump campaign efforts to collude with Russia, and Trump’s obstruction of justice thereof. The Republican message, articulated by ranking member Doug Collins, is that this is all in the distant past — the Mueller report came out in early spring; it’s already late spring — and we should focus on the future. “We’re not bringing Russians front and center,” he complained. “If we were attacked, then the priorities should be to go on the battlefields and not to the sideshow.”
Funny thing about that: There actually are a lot of bills to safeguard the 2020 elections from the next Russian attack. Mitch McConnell is blocking all of them.
The New York Times reported a few days ago that McConnell is refusing to bring to a vote any bill to safeguard the elections from foreign attack. There’s a Democratic bill to provide election funding to state and local governments. There’s a bipartisan Senate bill to “codify cyberinformation-sharing initiatives between federal intelligence services and state election officials, speed up the granting of security clearances to state officials, and provide federal incentives for states to adopt paper ballots.” McConnell won’t allow any of them to come to a vote....
It seems obvious to me that McConnell likes the idea of an understood mutual agenda between the Russians and the Republican Party. McConnell is not at all alarmed by the cyber attacks Russia carries out against the USA's elections. That is not reasonable. McConnell is negligent of his duties to the country and is allowing continued cyber warfare by Russia.
If nothing else McConnell should be repeatedly brought up on ethics violations, but, his negligence of the national security of the USA is pre-meditated. That is more than an ethics violation.
