No person calls out a Republican coward like Lawrence O’Donnell:
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: It is a recess week for the United States Senate, which usually means for some senators, it is time to go on a codel. Codel is shorthand for a congressional delegation journey. That is the most popular way for United States senators to travel to overseas nations. A group of senators gets jointly, nearly normally a bipartisan group, and patterns a journey that they believe will support them do their jobs greater. It truly is a superior thought. Most codels are legit. Long gone are the times when codels would turn into junkers to Paris, some other exciting spots in which the United States federal government doesn’t precisely have a ton of tricky choices to make. Senators have a responsibility to take part in all of the events scheduled for the codel. If they do not, then they have utilised the taxpayers’money to vacation somewhere exactly where they then failed to do their career. And it, who understands what as a substitute. Which is what the junior senator from Ohio did this weekend. We, the taxpayers of the United States, incredibly a lot including Ohio taxpayers, all paid for Republican Senator J. D. Vance’s trip in a codel of ten senators to the Munich Stability Meeting. The most essential meeting scheduled for the codel was a assembly with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and J. D. Vance made a decision to go do one thing else at your expense, in its place of attending that conference with Ukraine’s president. The function of the codel was to look at concerns of nationwide defense involving our allies. It is an annual codel, named after Senator John McCain, that is termed Codel McCain. J. D. Vance defied the pretty goal of the codel, the pretty justification of his working with taxpayer dollars to vacation to Europe by refusing to satisfy with President Zelenskyy the cause he gave for that is, of system, a lie.
Punchbowl News experiences, “Vance claimed he experienced other meetings and failed to believe he would master something new.”
The truth of the matter is, of course, J. D. Vance is scared of going through President Zelenskyy mainly because J. D. Vance opposes help to Ukraine. He has all the bravery it normally takes to say that in correct-wing media, but he is concerned to say that to President Zelenskyy. If he could hear to President Zelenskyy in a conference and master absolutely nothing, then that tells you every little thing you need to know about J. D. Vance’s mastering ability.
Meanwhile…
NEW Pew Study poll
seventy four% of Us residents look at the Ukraine war as crucial to U.S. national pursuits – with forty three% describing it as quite significant.
Divided by events: eighty one% of Democrats and sixty nine% of Republicans see the war as vital to U.S. nationwide passions
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