I was reading the Washington Post today and Ruth Marcus, a journalist I have high regard for, did something I believe should be happening on all “fronts.” “We the people” can not allow ourselves to forget who the republicans were who signed on to the FRIVOLOUS lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an UN-AMERICAN attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election which was HANDILY WON by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I’m no lawyer, but it wasn’t hard to understand how ridiculous this move was – simply designed, at least on the surface, to get Mr. Paxton a pardon from the pardoner in chief, individual 1. And, large swaths of elected republicans in Congress and across the country felt the obligation to sign on to this abhorrent attempt at what amounted to a coup d’etat.

Ms. Marcus pointed out the obvious, “we the people” should not forget who these republicans who don’t have the slightest bit of COURAGE or, for that matter, respect for their OATH to our constitution as they attempt to avoid the nasty “tweet” from our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president. Apparently, even after he was SOUNDLY defeated at the polls they still FEAR him. Hard for me to understand, be easy for me to feel a sense of contempt for them as members of our government who are SUPPOSED to be the DEFENDERS of said constitution. Ms. Marcus listed them all by NAME and I decided I would do the same – hoping that many others would follow suit so these politicians will not be able to run away from the lack of patriotism in the next election. Obviously, they FEAR individual 1 more than their voters, but I have to believe there are voters, even in “red” districts, who are turned off by having a COWARD for a representative. Here they are:

First, the attorneys general, the chief law enforcement officers of their states, who joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in this legal monstrosity: Eric Schmitt, Missouri (he goes first because Missouri filed the brief); Steve Marshall, Alabama; Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas; Ashley Moody, Florida; Curtis Hill, Indiana; Derek Schmidt, Kansas; Jeff Landry, Louisiana; Lynn Fitch, Mississippi; Tim Fox, Montana; Doug Peterson, Nebraska; Wayne Stenehjem, North Dakota; Mike Hunter, Oklahoma; Alan Wilson, South Carolina; Jason Ravnsborg, South Dakota; Herbert H. Slatery III, Tennessee; Sean Reyes, Utah; Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia.

Second, the House members, including McCarthy, Whip Steve Scalise (La.); Jim Jordan (Ohio), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee; Kevin Brady (Tex.), ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee; Rep. Gary Palmer (Ala.), head of the Republican Policy Committee; and Mike Johnson (La.), who organized this constitutional abomination.

The rest, listed in order of their home state: Alabama (Robert B. Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Bradley Byrne), Arizona (Andy Biggs, Debbie Lesko), Arkansas (Eric A. “Rick” Crawford, Bruce Westerman), California (Ken Calvert, Doug LaMalfa, Tom McClintock), Colorado (Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn), Florida (Gus M. Bilirakis, Mario Diaz-Balart, Neal Dunn, Matt Gaetz, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Ross Spano, Michael Waltz, Daniel Webster, Ted Yoho), Georgia (Rick Allen, Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Douglas A. Collins, Drew Ferguson, Jody Hice, Barry Loudermilk, Austin Scott), Idaho (Russ Fulcher, Mike Simpson), Illinois (Mike Bost, Darin LaHood), Indiana (Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Trey Hollingsworth, Greg Pence, Jackie Walorski), Iowa (Steve King), Kansas (Ron Estes, Roger Marshall), Louisiana (Ralph Abraham, Clay Higgins).

Maryland (Andy Harris), Michigan (Jack Bergman, Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar, Tim Walberg), Minnesota (Tom Emmer, Jim Hagedorn, Pete Stauber), Mississippi (Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, Steven M. Palazzo), Missouri (Sam Graves, Billy Long, Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason T. Smith, Ann Wagner), Montana (Greg Gianforte), Nebraska (Jeff Fortenberry, Adrian Smith), New Jersey (Gregory Steube, Jeff Van Drew), New York (Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin), North Carolina (Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Greg Murphy, David Rouzer, Mark Walker), Ohio (Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, Robert E. Latta, Brad Wenstrup), Oklahoma (Kevin Hern, Markwayne Mullin).

Pennsylvania (John Joyce, Frederick B. Keller, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Glenn Thompson), South Carolina (Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, Joe Wilson), Tennessee (Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Charles J. “Chuck” Fleischmann, Mark Green, David Kustoff, John Rose), Texas (Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C. Burgess, Michael Cloud, K. Michael Conaway, Dan Crenshaw, Bill Flores, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Kenny Marchant, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, Ron Wright), Virginia (Ben Cline, H. Morgan Griffith, Rob Wittman, Ron Wright), Washington (Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Dan Newhouse), West Virginia (Carol Miller, Alex Mooney), Wisconsin (Tom Tiffany).

This second group, 126 members of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, all belong, instead, in the “House of Shame.” Let us not forget. The next time, for example, we’re forced to listen to some of the self righteous blather coming from the mouth of Jim Jordan we should remind him of this SHAMEFUL moment and question whether he continues to live in FEAR of individual 1? And, Kevin McCarthy, the House member who bragged about how the Ben Ghazi fiasco in the House was fully for the purpose of tearing down Hillary Clinton’s “approval rating” – well, he should be reminded of this abomination every time he opens his mouth in public. Of course, both him and Jordan are likely to be leading the smear campaign against Kamala Harris I’ve written about in the past few weeks. It’s already started and it will come from these members of Congress who’ve just put their names on this lawsuit which was designed to overthrow our election.

As myself, and any other rational thinking American, predicted the lawsuit would be summarily THROWN out of court – 9 – 0 at the Supreme Court with even individual 1’s “pet” justices voting as anyone who’s made even a basic read of our constitution would have voted – but, apparently, their FEAR of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president was too much for all of these republicans listed above and they put their names on the lawsuit. SHAME ON all of them! Will this have lasting DAMAGE – I’ve been writing about the DAMAGE individual 1 has done to our nation for four years now and it will continue to mount right up till he’s out of the “White House” and, likely, beyond – but, yes, this will be lasting.

The CULT of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president is so ingrained, the republican party is so BRAINWASHED, that these people believe anything they’re “fed” by the right wing “message machine.” And, as I’ve said, these people are all about POWER and they’re not going “anywhere” until we vote them into the history books with a massive response. As much as I’m sick of one election piling on top of the next I can guarantee you the tendency of “progressives” is to kick back, take a deep breath, and feel the job is done because individual 1 has been defeated. But, that’s a “fool’s errand.” If “we the people” want to get anything significant accomplished we need to take full control of the U.S. Senate and strengthen democratic control of the House.

And, I write this as if I’m a “democrat” – which, I’ve NEVER been a “democrat” – always an “independent” voter. However, since the days of Ronald Reagan I’ve found myself voting AGAINST republicans and that tendency hit high gear with the Bush/Cheney regime when they invaded Iraq (of course, based on LIES – that’s the republican “way”) and, worse yet, publicly authorized TORTURE and then, for all intents and purposes, bragged about it. And, their disregard of the FISA laws via surveilling “we the people” without warrants wasn’t a “selling point” for me either. Since I’ve been writing this “blog” (essentially, my personal diary in cyberspace which a few people somehow find each day) I’ve been lobbying for the “present day” republican party to be voted into the history books.

Well, it won’t be easy to do this – and, what I’m talking about is purging the republican party of it’s history of RACISM which was put on “steroids” with the election of Barack Obama, leading to the so-called “tea party” which, essentially has controlled the republican caucus since 2010. And, of course, that was the ultimate “turn to the right” which made it possible for individual 1. Sadly, America’s history with racism is, and has been, much worse than I had allowed myself to believe. I actually thought Obama’s election represented a sign America had moved forward and was ready to heal some of the wounds still existing in relation to our “original sin.” But, obviously, I was wrong, and the opposite has happened.

Now, we’ve evolved to the place where we have right wing white nationalist, neo-Nazi groups filtered all around the country who feel emboldened to take their automatic weapons out into the political “realm” with no fear of retribution. They’re acting empowered to BULLY those of us who STILL believe in our constitution by the reality “we the people” allowed a right wing white nationalist BULLY into the “White House” four years ago. I’ve read in several instances over the past four years, as I was attempting to understand who some of these right wing groups are, where various neo-Nazi groups refer to individual 1 as their “fuhrer.” I’ve read on several occasions where groups referring to themselves as “conservative ‘Christians'” suggest individual 1, who CLEARLY has a rough allegiance to the “Ten Commandments,” as sent to them by “God.”

Honestly, the level of intelligence which comes across from the supporters of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president is embarrassing when I think about how “we the people” are viewed by those around the world (save for the right wing neo-Nazi’s who are part of this movement in Europe). Our allies, despite knowing Joe Biden will be a rational leader for them to deal with as the world, hopefully, will push back on Vladimir Putin – understands “we the people” are just four years away from possibly a “redo.” And, trust me, that’s the plan of all these republicans listed above – they’re NOT in this to “defend our constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic,” they’re in this for the POWER.

So, the fight for the “heart and soul” of our nation Joe Biden referred to is simply at the beginning stage and I worry the “troops” on the “left” (ie “we the people”) will tire, lose focus and, then, “here we go again.” You can see the republicans who have NO moral compass (apparently, a requirement) lining up – ie, Marko Rubio (“little Marko”), Ted Cruz (he with the “ugly wife” and “father who conspired to murder JFK”), and Tom Cotton (totally lives in FEAR of an individual 1 nasty “tweet”) and who knows how many listed above. I applaud Ruth Marcus for LISTING every one of them in the Washington Post and I’m doing whatever I can to help. “We the people” should NEVER forget the SHAMEFUL cowardice of every one of them!

Final (lazy?) thought: I’m posting this without re-reading and editing (as I often do) – my apologies for the foopahs. Remember, I was ONLY a sixth grade teacher. (Although, most of my 6th graders were/are smart enough to see past the MOUNTAIN of LIES “we the people” have had to endure over the previous four years! And, DON’T tell me “all politicians LIE.” Of course, “all” of us have stretched the truth into our own understanding, but out and out LYING to people’s FACES is also SHAMEFUL. As SHAMEFUL as the disregard of their oath’s of office from those mentioned above. God help us!