He Finally Admits...

“The mob was fed lies,” Mr. McConnell said.  After 4 years and a fact-checked total of over 20,000 lies and misstatements, Senator Mitch McConnell finally admits that Donald Trump may have actually told a lie.  There’s probable a psychological term for a slow learner, but for McConnell to take 4 years to realize that Trump tells lies is probably a world record for slow learning.  The next question remaining unanswered is whether or not McConnell can convince any of his fellow Republicans that Trump tells lies.  And it would also be interesting if McConnell will take umbrage with the many lies that emanate from Republicans campaigning for elective office.  Examples of these lies Republicans have told for far more years than Trump’s political derisive lies would include tax cuts increase tax revenue, Democrats are all Socialists, or Obama is not a citizen of the US.  That Trump once again lied about election fraud is not news.  He has done this since the day he was inaugurated President in 2017.  That McConnell has failed to call out the 110 Republican Representatives or the dozen or so Republican Senators for both supporting Trump’s lies about election fraud as well as lying about election fraud themselves is also no surprise.  McConnell and Republicans in Congress are not above doing anything including lying to retain power.  It is only when their continued lying has resulted in losses at the ballot box that McConnell has come to a “come to Jesus” moment.  The very next question, however, is not whether McConnell will confess to the hundreds of other lies he personally uttered over the past 4 years but just what will McConnell as Republican Minority Leader in the Senate do and encourage his fellow Republican Senators to do.  Republicans are famous for action less talk but will they finally back up their condemnation of Trump’s lies with any real action? For Example, Republicans built up QAnon backer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene To which Republican Ben Sasse responded, “She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party,” continuing to describe Greene as “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”  Sasse went on to say, “If the GOP is to have a future outside the fever dreams of internet trolls, we have to call out falsehoods and conspiracy theories unequivocally. We have to repudiate people who peddle those lies,” he added. But, look at Sasses’ votes in the Senate.  When it was time to remove Trump from office, Sasse voted to acquit. Will he vote his talk over the next 6 years remains to be seen.  Will any Republican Senators actually take action to put an end to the division that has plagued the country since the Obama inauguration?  Only time will tell.