No. of Recommendations: 3
I thought the amendments were both amusing and sad. I don't know if the article I read yesterday had the complete list, but I remember one saying that anyone who voted for the bill had to "conscript" in the Ukrainian Army. (I think she meant "enlist".)
I agree that the Republican Party has fallen to depths I never could have imagined. I always had my qualms about their close ties to religion (remember: I was a registered Republican for 20 years). But I could support a lot of other stuff, like them not giving into the USSR on pretty much anything. Now they didn't bat an eye when Russia took Crimea (though, to be fair, most Dems didn't either), and now they actively want to allow Russia to conquer a neighbor that wasn't provoking them. The Republican Party I was a part of all those years ago NEVER would have tolerated that. I was a member of the Party that was funneling money and weapons to the mujahideen to thwart Russia in Afghanistan in the 80s. Today's party bears no resemblance to that Party.
Greene (MTG) apparently is pushing to remove Johnson now. I have no love for Johnson, but I'm torn. He -finally- did the right thing and let people have a vote.** On the other hand, he thinks our problems are because we aren't pious enough. I did read that they want to rename MTG's office "The Neville Chamberlain Room", and she as "Putin's Special Envoy to the US Congress".
I don't think Greene has as much going on between her ears as Chamberlain did, but they both misjudge(d) the global situations. Chamberlain was shown to be fantastically wrong. Greene didn't even have to wait as long as Chamberlain did to be shown to be wrong. She was wrong the moment she opened her mouth because the invasion has been going for two years now. Chamberlain (having been wrong already, that Germany would be satisfied with the Rhineland in 1936) had to wait a full year after "there will be peace in our time" to be shown to be wrong (when the Germans invaded Poland).
**If it had failed, I would have been disappointed, but at least the democratic process would have been observed. Instead of governing by extortion, i.e. "put that bill up for a vote and we'll fire you".
