GOP House members work for us, not Putin

Sen. John McCain called out President Donald Trump’s “disgraceful performance” with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Monday.

But what about our members of Congress? Are they still backing Trump’s bromance with Putin? Are they willing to take the word of Putin over our own intelligence agencies and justice department?

In other words, were Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, David Schweikert and Debbie Lesko elected to the U.S. Congress or the Russian politburo? Because I believe they’re confused. Either that, or they’re willingly supporting Putin.

The Justice Department indicted 12 Russian military officers for an attack on our election system, our democracy, and a group of Republican members of Congress — including four from Arizona — want to respond by going after … the deputy attorney general who announced the indictments? Yes.

The oxymoronically named House Freedom Caucus has prepared impeachment documents against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. As if our comrade congress members believe Rosenstein, AND NOT THE RUSSIANS, intervened in our election, and continue to try to do so. As if they believe Rosenstein, and not Putin, is the enemy.

Any rational person (who is not a Republican in the House from Arizona) would call that a bunch of Bolshevik.

On the same day the new indictments against the Russians came out of the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, said of continuing cyberattacks by Russia, “The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point.”

Adding, “Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.”

This explains why so many people referred to Trump’s cozy private meeting with Putin using the hashtag #TreasonSummit.

According to the latest indictments, cyberspies working for Putin hacked into the Democratic National Committee, the Hilary Clinton campaign and other sites with the hope of turning the tide of the election against Clinton. The indictment also says that using stolen passwords, tracked keystrokes and banking information, the Russians got a hold of the names, addresses, partial Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers for roughly 500,000 voters. Then they used Wikileaks to spread as much negative material as they could.

And they started doing all this on the very day that then-candidate Donald Trump asked them to do so.

The indictments read in part:

“For example, on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office. At or around the same time, they also targeted seventysix email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.”

That’s the day Trump said on a campaign stop, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you can find the 33,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

It’s clear now that a foreign adversary launched a cyberattack to help Trump get elected. And since the election, Trump has since catered and deferred to Russia and to Putin.

Meantime, our commissars in Congress, like those four Republicans from Arizona, seem to have no problem with the Russians dictating the outcome of our elections as long as they pick the right political party.

That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

That can’t be how it works. In announcing the indictments, Rosenstein said, “A partisan warfare fueled by modern technology does not fairly reflect the grace, dignity, and unity of the American people. The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference. We need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable. And we need to keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference, and defend America.”

In order to do that, Congress members must decide where they work. The U.S. Capitol.

Or the Kremlin.