A remarkable Republican statement on the Ukraine invasion

[andym]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/elise-stefanik-biden-putin-russia-ukraine-invasion/index.html
A remarkable Republican statement on the Ukraine invasion
Chris Cillizza
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 3:00 PM ET, Thu February 24, 2022


"While many of her GOP colleagues were heavily ridiculing Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for his invasion of Ukraine, Stefanik took a different tack, focusing her criticism on President Joe Biden and laying Russian aggression at his feet.
Here's the key bit of her statement:
"After just one year of a weak, feckless, and unfit President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief, the world is less safe. Rather than peace through strength, we are witnessing Joe Biden's foreign policy of war through weakness. For the past year, our adversaries around the world have been assessing and measuring Joe Biden's leadership on the world stage, and he has abysmally failed on every metric. From kinetic and deadly attacks on our allies and partners, to the catastrophic withdrawal and surrender in Afghanistan, to the cyber attacks impeding American industry and infrastructure, to today's Russian invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden and his Administration have failed America and the world."...
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What Trump did -- and continues to do -- to the Republican Party is defining downward the idea of acceptable rhetoric. Stefanik has made political hay out of her willingness to support Trump at every turn. She was elevated into House GOP leadership after Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was removed from her post as conference chair for criticizing Trump's actions around the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

Stefanik releases a statement like this one because she knows the MAGA wing of the Republican Party (and Trump himself) will likely eat it up. She appears either unaware or unconcerned about what sort of message it sends the country and the world when you refer to the American president as "unfit" in a time of war.
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Basically Republican like Stefanik should be called out for un-American behavior/disloyalty to the USA.

[msongs]

1. one wonders if these repubs are being called out in a forceful manner ... and not just DU nt

[czarjak]

2. A-P-P-R-E-N-T-I-C-E

[lees1975]

3. I wouldn't call her statement remarkable

I'd call it pitiful in its servility and lack of original thought, the work of an idiot or a moron, not a patriotic member of the house of representatives.

We really need to be calling this idiocy and these anti-American traitors out.

[andym]

4. The statement is remarkable for reporters and editorialists who don't understand where the GOP is

Many of the members of the press think that political norms haven't really changed. Now they are beginning to see just how much they are in error.

[Rebl2]

5. She's

a useless idiot and moron.