During a broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC last month, the host, former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough gave Mitch McConnell the well-deserved nickname of Moscow Mitch, which has rightfully stuck to McConnell’s ass like Russian glue to a shingle.
 
Now, after the three mass killings in El Paso, Dayton and the Garlic Festival in California, when Mitch made his disdain for supporting any type of reasonable gun safety laws crystal clear, by refusing to call the Senate back from summer break to attend an emergency session to address this National Security issue, another well-deserved moniker has been plastered to his Russian buttocks, that of “Massacre Mitch”. 
 
Clearly, Massacre Mitch was too busy collecting his ill-gotten gains from his swindling deal to bring Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s money into Kentucky (after arranging for U.S. sanctions against Deripaska to be lifted--against the will of the House and the Democratic Senate and against American National Security interests) to bother with holding an emergency session to save his fellow Americans from more mass murder. Indeed, Massacre McConnell has sold out his state and our country to the highest bidder (i.e., Putin). 
 
As the treachery of Moscow Mitch and Massacre McConnell is exposed to the light of day, he should also become infamous as “Mitch the Menace,” as he alone presents a clear and present danger and menace to our National Security. Not only are McConnell and his Republican-Russian comrades acting as well-paid “Russian Assets,” they are also acting in a deeply un-American manner, and collectively betraying our country and our countrymen.
 
Not only is Moscow Mitch a Russian asset, dedicated to allowing the Russian government to infiltrate our entire political and electoral system while his party accepts untold amounts of bribes through the NRA to do Putin’s bidding, he and all of the members of his Russian Republican Federation are also acting as stooges for the NRA agenda, which is to flood our country with as many weapons of war as possible.
 
Russia’s goal appears to be to get as many Americans as possible to kill each other, first by flooding our streets with assault weapons designed only to kill as many people as possible within a war zone, and second by taking over our entire electoral system. Moscow Mitch is obviously fully onboard with this Russian anti-America strategy. I certainly hope he is being paid handsomely for such treachery. 
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again during the election and presidential campaign of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let him bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he doesn’t like his other nickname of Massacre Mitch, let him bring to the floor all of the gun safety laws already passed by the House as well, and waiting on his desk.
 
And if he doesn’t like his new nickname, Mitch the Menace, he should start acting like an adversary for America. But clearly his allegiance lies elsewhere, with those who secretly fill his pockets and his campaign chest.
 
Russian Republicans, as led by Mitch the Menace and His Assholiness, our 45thpresident and the first U.S. president ever appointed by Russian Oligarchs, are both doing everything they can to welcome and give aid and comfort to our Russian enemy. Indeed, if a war had been officially declared against Russia when they first began their plan of attack against our democracy in 2014, most of currently elected Republican members in the House of Representatives and the US Senate, particularly Senator McConnell, along with His Assholiness, our 45thpresident, could be officially accused of treason. 
 
In time, and hopefully sooner than later, most of the Republicans in Washington will be shown to have accepted illegal contributions from Russian Oligarchs, funneled through the equally corrupt NRA, which might as well stand for the National Russian Associationat this point. 
 
If this treason were not enough, His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere, while his Repugnant Racist Republicans have stood silently by and placidly supported him in doing so.
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. Forget the normal issues of a presidential year: the economy, health care, etc. The election in November 2020 is going to be an existential question: Americans will have to vote either for or against our Democracy. Which will it be: Will we have a Dictator or will we choose the Rule of Law? Will we allow Moscow Mitchand His Assholinessto hand our country over to Vladimir Putin, or will we choose to end this abject corruption?
 
Voting for the Republicans—any Republican—is a vote for Putin and the Russian Oligarchs. So prepare far in advance to make your choice, America. And make it wisely. As this may be the last election held in our country—at least the last one with even the slightest semblance of fairness.
 
I pray to God that we collectively vote out Moscow Mitch, His Assholiness, the NRA, and the Russian-Republican Federation. 

"As I pointed out in last Sunday’s blog posting, “Moscow Mitch” has blocked all attempts to stop Russian and other foreign governments from attacking our democracy and our voting system. According to Dana Milbank’s column in last week’s Washington Post:
 
"McConnell has blocked all such attempts, including: 
A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence. 
A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies.
A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election.
 A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes."
 
"McConnell has prevented them all from being considered — over and over again. This is the same McConnell who, in the summer of 2016, when briefed by the CIA along with other congressional leaders on Russia’s electoral attacks, questioned the validity of the intelligence and forced a watering down of a warning letter to state officials about the threat, omitting any mention of Russia."
 
Clearly, McConnell’s acts are that of a Russian stooge and a traitor to America. Further, McConnell, is acting as a Russian Asset, quite willing to do anything to aid and to abet our sworn enemies so that he and our Russian-appointed president retain his power. And McConnell seems quite willing to let foreign actors invade and attack our country, just so that he and his fellow Russian-Republican stooges can retain their power.
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again in the election of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let it bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he proves his allegiance to America by putting these bills forward for debate on the Senate floor, then we can stop calling him Moscow Mitch. If, on the other hand, he proves that he and our president and their Russian-backed party are beholding to Russian influence, as I believe he will, by not allowing any of these bills that would protect America come forward, then the name of Moscow Mitch should not only stick to him forever after, he should be renounced and chastised by every American who loves our country. A traitor is a traitor and an enemy is an enemy. If McConnell continues to betray our country, the nickname of Moscow Mitch, like that of Benedict Arnold and others whose stains outlast the time in which they betrayed their country, should be emblazoned on his tombstone, in all of the history books, as a name that will live in infamy.
 
The hatred that is espoused daily from the loathsome White Nationalist creature who became our 45thpresident, is now spreading hate and violence throughout our land, quite awash in guns thanks to the Republicans and the NRA. In the last two days, two mass killings have taken place, both killers being racist white followers of their Racist in Chief. And rather than tone down his hate-filled rhetoric His Assholinessonly spouts and spreads more hatred, and more contempt for the Rule of Law. Clearly, His Assholiness is also a Russian appointee, precisely in the same mold of Moscow Mitch. These traitors to the Constitution, to the Rule of Law, and to any remaining sanity in our society, must be removed soon. Indeed, the current president presents a clear and present danger to our country, to our national security, and to our democracy. He, like the Russian asset Moscow Mitch, must be removed as soon as possible.
 
The call for the impeachment of the unworthy and unlawful monster in the Oval Office is finally growing in the House of Representatives, such that a majority of the Democratic members of the House now support an impeachment hearing. Most if not all of the Republican members of the House (i.e., the Russian Republicans), appear to want to stay onboard the Trumptanic as it veers toward the ultimate iceberg; history should judge them, too, as traitors to America and the American way, even as they sink while still happily aboard their Racist and White Nationalist flagship, a most deserved outcome. 
 
His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere. Now, on a nearly daily basis, we see his racist killers using their assault weapons to kill as many of their fellow Americans as possible.  
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. If Americans want to see daily carnage in a nation swimming with insanity and guns, by all means vote for the Russian Republicans and vote for the White Nationalist pig now snorting from the bully pulpit. You, too, can joins the Russians who want to see America sink into the abyss. OR you can vote for America, for decency, for the Rule of Law, for the expulsion of Moscow Mitch and every other Russian-backed traitor, be they Republican or Democrat (I’m looking at you, Tulsi Gabbard!). You can vote for hate and White Nationalism and turn our current president into an Russian-appointed Emperor who will never need to step down or ever hold national elections again. OR you can vote for a return to sanity, to civility, to Rule of Law. That is the choice, clear and simple. Just what in God’s name, do Americans want our country to become? We can be Fascist or we can be Free but we cannot be both. We can be a nation where there are more guns than people OR we can decide we have had enough of the violence, the racism, the hatred, the contempt for law, but we cannot continue to be both, a nation torn apart from within, divisible and hate-filled. 

We can continue to drown in guns and killing OR we can stop the violence by choosing to get most of the guns off the street, but we can't have both situations. It's either the right to guns or the right to life, but you cannot have both!
 
We can continue to allow the occupant of the Oval Office to shout his racist hatred across all of our media, or we can choose to have his sorry ass thrown out of office. We can keep the outlaw president we now have OR we can send him to prison where he deservedly belongs as soon as possible.
 
At the very least, every thinking American should want impeachment hearings to begin immediately, before our Russian-appointed president is allowed to spew any more of his racist bile and before any more innocent Americans are shot down at the local mall, the theatre, or your local public school.
 
In essence, we can choose hatred or we can follow our Better Angels and choose love. But we can’t go forward into the future, holding both in our hearts.

Right now, Russia has us right where they always wanted us: at each other's throats and killing each other.