Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan of Punchbowl News confirmed this evening that although MAGA Republicans have insisted the border is such a crisis that no aid to Ukraine can pass until it is addressed, Trump is preventing congressional action on the border because he wants to run on the issue of immigration. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told a closed meeting of Senate Republicans that “the nominee” wants to run his campaign on immigration, adding, “We don’t want to do anything to undermine him.” “We’re in a quandary,” McConnell said. https://substack.com/home/post/p-141025314?source=queue

Really, Mitch McConnell? You don’t know whether to support a bill that could save the lives of Ukrainians, Palestinians, and immigrants at the southern border, because the rogue, Donald Trump, wants immigration to be HIS campaign issue and supporting it would diminish the effectiveness of HIS campaign?

Do you, Senator McConnell, care about anything beside massaging the ego of a narcissist who calls you “disloyal” any chance he gets?

“Why do Republican Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate?” Trump wrote, following your thoughtful comment that Republicans would have a hard time flipping the Senate in 2022. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3797518-trump-attacks-mcconnell-wife-over-gop-turmoil-after-mccarthy-fails-to-win-speakership/

He further insulted your wife, Elaine Chao, concerning her apparent conflict of interest over her father’s company, the Foremost Group. “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them [Republican candidates] get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!”

So now you are willing to scuttle a bill that aids struggling refugees from Texas to Ukraine to Palestine, so that the ex-President has a better  edge on Democrats, who are extending their best compromise to get this aid bill passed. Can you hear yourself, supporting the giant ego of a candidate, who thinks the lives of innocent people are less important than his Presidential campaign?

Perhaps you think being a faithful Party member is more important than your unsinkable pride, but are you really supporting a Party that seeks the trust of the American people or deepening the moral Black Hole who can not fathom the humanity of anyone who stands in his way?  Surely there is a principle that would prevent you from sinking a worthy compromise with so much capacity to help those too weak to help themselves?

You have shown the depths you could plumb by blocking the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court with ten months left till the end of an election year. That was a feat of diabolical strategy that should keep you up at night. Perhaps that is no different than placating a man who will continue to insult you anytime you comment on the obvious, if it is not in his interest to recognize you.

Yet you have shown integrity

• in rejecting the Election deniers [ https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/mitch-mcconnell-trump-electoral-vote/index.html ],
• emphatically supporting aid to Ukraine, [https://apnews.com/article/mcconnell-ukraine-russia-senate-israel-bf8dc4899d1e99fd186028a387023b57] and
• supporting moderate gun control [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mitch-mcconnells-support-tougher-gun-laws-reflects-changed-political-l-rcna33537].

Sometimes you look like the only clear-headed adult in your party.

But now you are tarnishing your legacy by putting Trump over democracy. You could be retiring with a resurgent conscience. You could lead the Republican Party when it is so desperate for heroes. You could stand up to a man who rules that Party for his own gratification.

Is it integrity or expedience that animates your political soul? Are you willing to follow the former President into the cesspool of self-interest? Or will you stand for something you believe in, such as compromise for the sake of the suffering people of the earth?  Whom do you serve, Mitch McConnell? God or Mammon?