Not too many years have passed since being a Russian spy was enough to get a person the firing squad. Apparently, we now give them seats in Congress. The level of betrayal is significant and what is even more amazing is that they’re attempting to mask their actions as some form of patriotism. I’m not sure how that works since, legally, they’re US citizens, but idealistically, among Russia’s strongest supporters. Even actual Russians are not as fervent.
Of course, I’m talking about U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). They were elected as super-conservative Republicans, which was bad enough, but now they’re outright supporting Russia by clamoring to impeach fellow Republican, House Speaker Mike Johnson, for daring to bring a funding bill for Ukraine to the House floor. Never mind the fact that there is nothing in the Constitution that actually gives the Speaker the authority to completely deny the House the right to vote on its own bill. Greene and Massie are glued tight to the pro-Putin agenda of leaving Ukraine to fall under the continual onslaught from Russia’s military.
So far, it seems that only two of the Russian cohorts are willing to make themselves so visible. U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a three-term Texas Republican rated a hard-core conservative told CNN’s Manu Raju, in a video posted Thursday, “I guess their reasoning is they want Russia to win so badly that they want to oust the Speaker over it. I mean that’s a strange position to take. “I think they want to be in the minority too. I think that’s an obvious reality.”
Other Republicans are more quiet in expressing their concern, though, and that itself is concerning. U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, one of several Republicans who won their New York districts in 2022 couched his words to support the funding bill but at the same time, tried to not piss off Greene. “Marjorie Taylor Greene, I respect her, she works hard for her district…” he said in an interview. The question we’re all asking, though, is whether it’s the Georgia district in the US, or a Russian district close to the Ukranian front line that she’s supporting.
Other Republicans are saying that the majority of the Republican caucus wants the bill on the floor and some are even calling for the resignation of Greene and Massie if they don’t support the bill coming to the floor. But no one is talking about bringing them up on charges for directly giving aid and support to a known US enemy actively engaged in war against a US ally.
In my opinion, the Department of Justice needs to open an investigation now into the degree to which Reps. Green and Massie are involved with, communicating with, and taking directives from Russian intelligence figures. There is little question that there are foxes in the henhouse and someone needs to get the shotgun out and remove the fuckers now.
We simply can’t play stupid games with Russian spys.
