Up-dated: Mitch McConnel Has Been Behaving Like a Russian Asset

But is he one?

I s Mitch McConnel what is called a Russian asset?  Perhaps not officially, but the effect is very nearly the same.  

Is one of the many outcomes of being an enabler of Trump, also the enabling of heightened Russian influence in U. S. politics?   That is a question for others to answer after proper investigation.   But it would seem to follow that the Republicans in Congress,  including Mr. McConnel, have done nothing to hinder this or other difficult and nefarious developments.

Your Musical Patriot, like other Americans, is virtually bombarded and overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of unprecedented news stories surrounding this Administration.  Not the least of this is the cessation of the daily press briefing at the White House.  (We shouldn't worry, as the President will one day wish the press could still fend for his legitimacy to power.)

So, we are at a critical time, and have been.  But I should like to let our foreign friends know that the America you have always known and loved is still here, suffering and bewildered by what is going on in Washington.   And yet we are still working hard, hoping for better, knowing something is wrong, even though we do not always know just what.

This confusion is the responsibility of the media largely.  The American media at this time has to be among the worst in the industrialized world, even if it is large, and even if there are a few (very few) honest reporters.   The media knows things it is not telling.   It does not know things it should know (about vote suppression, e.g.*).   And the things it does know it so often tells in either incomplete or distorted form.  These facts are known.  

No, Mitch McConnel is not a Russian agent.  And this week, Sen. McConnel has seemed to perhaps get a little clearer about what is true.  But we still have a Republican Party which is dominated by a fascist-type agenda of serious government-business collusion.  It is the kind of collusion many dictators around the world can only envy.  


*And exception is an article in yesterday's Washington Post.  I will reference this later.