“I Know He Framed Me For Armed Robbery, But I’m Aching For That Upper-Class Tax Cut”
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Dan observes below that “this is far from the first, and likely far from the last, defining moment for Republican elected officials.” Mitch McConnell is staying well within his self-definition:
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, on Wednesday defended President Trump’s firing of the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, resisting Democratic calls to challenge the president and support a broader inquiry of Russian interference in the election.
“Today we’ll no doubt hear calls for a new investigation,” Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor, “which can only serve to impede the current work being done.”
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, frontally questioned Mr. Trump’s stated rationale for dismissing Mr. Comey and renewed a call for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor.
Since the day Mr. Trump was elected, a prevailing theory was that congressional Republicans, especially in the Senate, would be a check and balance on his potential excesses and missteps.
Mr. McConnell has largely avoided that test.
McConnell squarely put party above country during the campaign, and he ain’t stopping now.
To make an unoriginal point, the establishment French right chose not to support an unfit candidate, who lost bigly. The establishment right in the United States was all-in on Trump as soon as he had any chance of winning, and this will get worse before it gets better. It’s a political crisis on multiple levels.
UPDATE: what an amazing coincidence!
Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request.
It’s tragic that Trump and Sessions had no choice but to fire Comey for misconduct they effusively praised at the time.