Sen. Cotton and Rep. Womack,
It has been unbearable enough, throughout the last half of 2016, to have to imagine Russians in Moscow giggling while they jiggered our election. And it got worse, during the early part of 2017, to have to picture them laughing out loud at how hugely they succeeded.
Because Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov stood right here on American soil in front of American cameras at the side of American Secretary of State Rexxon Tillerson and laughed right in our faces when he and his little “Order of Friendship” chum were asked if “our” president’s firing of James Comey, the man tasked with investigating The Russian Connection, had “cast a shadow” over negotiations between the U.S. and his murderous sneak-dog nation.
What Lavrov replied is, “Was he fired? Was he fired? You are kidding!” all the while wiggling his eyebrows faux-quizzically. Then he just waved and chuckled and shrugged off the entire American press before going off to meet in private with Damnable J. Trump like he was the winning contestant on Celebrity Apprentice, because by God, now he is: Tell him what he’s won, Don Pardo.
Another Sergei, this one a Kislyak, a known Russian spy, got his photo taken with the Skunk In Chief, ol’ Sergei smiling and grinning with his “trophy president.”
I guess it’s funny, from their point of view: The president fired the man who was investigating the president’s Russian connections, and possible treason. But down here in Arkansas, I don’t find it nearly so funny, sirs.
I have just witnessed the legislative branch of the government prove it is more than willing to put a party’s agenda over country, and an executive branch put personal profit over everything else, including world peace.
At this point, you can only imagine my outrage, and that of my fellow Arkansans. Our anger is still “at a remove.” But it will very soon become up close and personal, and “in your face,” not just in Arkansas but all over this country. We are starting to get a real clear idea of how to truly “make America great again.”
We’ve now got one hell of a swamp to drain.
Brad Bailey