Putin It On the Line

Even though the Senate passed a military aid package for Ukraine that also includes military aid for Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, and humanitarian aid for the Palestinians, Mike Johnson refuses to let the aid come up for a vote in the House until President Biden and congressional Democrats address the southern border.  They did that already, and Mike Johnson wouldn't let that come to a vote either.  Why?  Ask Mike Johnson.  I would love to hear his answer, because I know it won't include the sentence "Trump told me not to."  Even though that's the actual answer.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are letting Vladimir Putin become the most powerful leader in the Eastern Hemisphere.  And Trump will let him become the most powerful leader in the world if he himself gets back in power as a result of this year's U.S. presidential election.  But, that's probably going to happen . . . because Americans only care about the economy and think Trump will do a better job on the economy than Joe Biden by twenty points. 

House Democrats hope to get enough pro-Ukraine Republicans to sign a discharge petition to allow the Senate bill to come to a vote in the House, but pundits say the odds are against that.  How many GOP votes do the Democrats need to pass a discharge petition?

Five.

Five.  Only five.

And that's a long shot? 

And by the way, progressive Democrats, especially a certain bird from the Bronx (I won't mention her name, but her initials are A-O-C) also might oppose the bill because it gives military aid to the Israelis.  And oh yeah, I didn't want to bring it up, but the left famously ignored the struggle against Communism in Poland in the 1980s because they couldn't conceive the possibility that you could support Solidarity in Poland and the fight against apartheid in South Africa at the same time.  Or maybe they just didn't care about the Poles.

Gosh darn it, Putin is planning to put a weapon in space that can destroy American satellites!  And Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, just got killed while living in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle.  And President Biden can't get the support of House Republicans to help Ukraine?  How is he going to get aid to the Ukrainians?  We need a way to funnel aid to Ukraine under the table without anyone, not even the President, aware of it.

Dammit, we need Oliver North!

It's a thought.