Democrats should be shouting everywhere about this
Republicans on Russia trip face scorn and ridicule from critics at home
Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a country that interfered in the U.S. presidential election and continues to deny it.
“Cannot believe GOP, once the party that stood strong against Soviets & only a decade ago sought to democratize the Middle East, is now surrendering so foolishly to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Kremlin’s kleptocracy — only two years after Russia interfered in U.S. election,” tweeted Clint Watts, an information warfare specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and frequent featured expert before congressional panels examining Russian influence operations.
“Russians wooing with a shopworn song — repugnant as nails on a blackboard,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote in a Twitter post in response to the delegation’s trip. “They are enemies and adversaries, attacking us.”
Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) led the eight-member delegation on a multiday tour of St. Petersburg and Moscow, a trip that included meetings with Russia’s foreign minister and parliamentarians. It did not include a session that senators had been hoping for: a meeting with Putin, whom President Trump is scheduled to meet at a summit this month.
Members of the delegation set off on their trip late last week promising to be tough with Russian officials ahead of the president’s visit, especially on matters of election interference. But they struck a conciliatory tone once there: The point of their visit, Shelby stressed to the Duma leader, was to “strive for a better relationship” with Moscow, not “accuse Russia of this or that or so forth.”
It played well in Moscow, but not on the home front.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-on-russia-trip-face-scorn-and-ridicule-from-critics-at-home/ar-AAzDMAv?li=BBnb7Kz
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It's bad form to call out your colleagues traitorous behavior on the 4th of July. Or the 5th or the 6th... 
Blumenthal is the only response I've read. The dems continue to bring a butter knife to a gun fight. Like it or not, agree with it or not, they are perceived as weak & this is one reason why. We're gonna lose our country while the Democratic Party is being civil.
because if they don't hear from you.....crickets. 
