Did She Really Say That?

"We cannot and we must not allow our compassion to blind us to reason and common sense."--Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, March 17, 2022

I never imagined that the day would ever come when an American politician, a member of the House of Representatives, who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, would stand in opposition to helping another country defend its own liberty and democracy, modelled after our own and based on the values and principles that define us as Americans, against an enemy who has openly declared himself diametrically opposed to everything we stand for and is destroying a country to keep it from being free.  

To make such a statement is not only unpatriotic and unAmerican, but separating reason and common sense from compassion makes one a sociopath, and is blatantly selfish, completely inhuman, cruel and barbaric.  It is even more immoral and inhumane in that she is weighing the realities of the indiscriminate and deliberate targeting of civilians in Ukraine to defend her politically indefensible support of the Russian dictator who is committing those war crimes. Compassion doesn't blind us to reason and common sense, it puts it in perspective and shows that we have a conscience.  

It gets worse.  

She, along with seven other members of her party in the House of Representatives, voted against the aid package for Ukraine.  This is a duplicitous attempt to avoid well-deserved criticism for a vote that has been correctly interpreted and labelled as "pro-Putin," because that is exactly what it was.  Being caught off-guard by a sudden, but very overwhelming shift in public opinion is not an excuse for dishonesty and duplicity. She voted against helping Ukraine defend itself against an unprovoked, unjustified attack, and against helping to defend a country that is fighting for the same freedom she has.  She doesn't regret her vote, she only regrets that there will likely be political consequences because she's on the wrong side of public opinion, not because she cares one bit about the innocent civilians who are dying to defend their liberty and their country.  

At least her colleague, Madison Cawthorn, admits he is pro-Putin, anti-American, unpatriotic and stands against the liberty and values that Ukrainians are now fighting to defend.  He's declared that he is politically motivated and that his position is aligned with that of the Russian dictator.  He's made it clear that there is absolutely no compassion on his part, that Ukrainians are not innocent because they are corrupt and "woke" among other things, that his reason and common sense is fully supportive of authoritarian autocracy against representative democracy.  That is, by no means, an admirable position, and it is also immoral and inhumane and completely disqualifying for a member of the House.  But he is apparently willing to be identified as a Pro-Putin conservative.  

All eight of the house members who voted against aid to Ukraine are among those who have closely tied their political fortunes to Trump and promote loyalty to a person over loyalty to the nation.  So is their vote partial re-payment of the debt they owe for Putin's help in getting Trump elected in 2016?  They are all supporters of the January 6th insurrection, several of them participated in it and helped insurrectionists tour the Capitol and lay out their plans.  I think that tells us exactly where they stand.  They should all proudly wear their Pro-Putin label. If you live in one of the congressional districts any of those eight represent, well, they've certainly given you a clear choice.