For Goodness Sake

“A bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate voted 70-to-29 to advance a $95 billion foreign aid package” to support Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. But it’s in serious danger of getting blocked by Mike Johnson and the House GOP, who are kowtowing to the demands of a 91-time indictee who just invited Russia to attack our NATO allies. The excuse is that the bill doesn’t include any border funding … which was rejected by Mike Johnson and the House GOP. Sad times.

+ Many GOP senators teamed with Dems to get the Senate deal done. But the House is more rabid. Who will win? David Frum calls this The Good Republicans’ Last Stand. (Lately, the Good Republicans winning percentage is about as high as the Washington Generals.)

+ Biden on the stakes: “The stakes were already high for American security before this bill was passed in the Senate last night. But in recent days, those stakes have risen. That’s because the former president has set a dangerous and shockingly, frankly, un-American signal to the world. Just a few days ago, Trump gave an invitation to Putin to invade some of our allies, Nato allies. He said if an ally didn’t spend enough money on defence, he would encourage Russia to quote, ‘Do whatever the hell they want’. Can you imagine a former president of the United States saying that? The whole world heard it. The worst thing is, he means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator.'” (At any other time in history, the anti-NATO comment would doom a presidential candidate. But this is this time in history, and we’ve got big problems.)