Within twenty-four hours of these revelations the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill calling for immediate measures to protect our elections from Russian meddling.
Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell killed the bill. No amount of reasoning, disputing, arguing, accusing, or pleading could move Mitch McConnell to put forward a vote for on the Senate floor to take action to protect our democracy. And there was nothing we the American people could do about it.
Until one clever American came up with a simple but brilliant idea. He pinned Mitch McConnell with the nickname “Moscow Mitch.”
It was MSNBC news commentator Joe Scarborough,
“Moscow Mitch” has gotten under Mitch McConnell’s skin immensely, especially since it began trending on Twitter along with the hashtag #MoscowMitchMcTraitor. McConnell even whined about it on the Senate floor, saying, “I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous.”
One could practically hear the violins weeping in the background.
...was infiltrated by protesters holding signs and chanting “Moscow Mitch.” |
That statement from Mitch McConnell, pallid and wishy-washy as it was, has been interpreted as McConnell moving an inch on territory upon which he previously refused to budge. And he hasn’t moved that inch because he suddenly developed and inch-worth of concern for the welfare of the country he was elected to lead; it’s because he’s now worried that if “Moscow Mitch” sticks he won’t be re-elected next year.
But an inch is only an inch, and Mitch McConnell likely needs to be pushed many more inches before he'll allow an election protection bill on the Senate floor.
So let’s all make sure “Moscow Mitch” sticks to Mitch McConnell like Crazy Glue. Let's make sure this handle lives, thrives, follows and worries Moscow Mitch everywhere he goes. Everybody say it every chance you get. Post #MoscowMitchMcTraitor on your Facebook page. Post it on your Twitter page, Instagram page, and Pinterest Fail page. Get together with your friends and rent a billboard. Rent three outside your town.
In two words we’ve been handed the means to fight for our American democracy, free from the grip of a tyrant,
Let’s fight.
Epilogue:
Three day ago there were two more mass murders in this country, one in El Paso, Texas and one in Dayton, Ohio.
Thirty one graves new graves to be dug.
And so a second hashtag has been added on to Mitch McConnell’s name of shame: #MassacreMitch.
As for me, I would have chosen Mass Murder Mitch, but Massacre Mitch is already trending.
And so every day I intend to post #MoscowMitchMcTraitor and #MassacreMitch on my Twitter page.
You do what you can.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/politics/moscow-mitch-mcconnell.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/politics/sherrod-brown-mitch-mcconnell-mass-shootings-guns-congress-cnntv/index.html