The Magnificent Seven?

 It's not the old movie. It's actually a group of Congressional Republicans who came close to doing the right thing but caved at the end to peer pressure.

Newsweek, which at one time was an almost mediocre magazine, ran a story about seven Republicans who did not stand and applaud "Fidel" Zelensky in his joint Congressional session debut the other night. They did not stand in the early parts of speech to applaud but succumbed to peer pressure in the latter parts of the speech and stood with the other sheep to applaud the comedian-turned-dictator. The writer at Newsweek was outraged that people would not stand and applaud Fidel's every word.

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia took the best approach and just did not attend. Maybe if there were more people in Washington worried more about the future of our nation than the future of the Ukraine, life would be better for us.

The elected members of the United States Congress stood to applaud a man who came here to ask us for almost fifty billion dollars in handouts. What next? Will we give a standing ovation for the guy begging at the traffic light? At least the guy on the corner always writes "God Bless" on his signs. 

"Fidel" Zelensky did not have a "Please help" sign. He brought a Ukrainian flag, signed by soldiers, and gave it to Kameltoe Harris and Nancy Pelosi. Is there anyone who really believes that he took this flag to the front and had soldiers sign it? The media reports all show Pelosi and Harris holding up the flag. Have you ever seen a photo of those two holding a United States flag at a joint session of Congress? I don't think so.

The Nancy Pelosi holding the Ukrainian flag at the podium is the same Nancy Pelosi who stood in that same spot and tore up a copy of Trump's State of the Union speech a few years ago. Memo to Nancy, your ass sucks wind.

The alleged freedom fighter Zelensky is the same dictator who has shut down many churches in the Ukraine. He jails his opposition. I can't tell whether he is a Ukrainian fighting Russia or a Democrat claiming to fight COVID. The techniques are similar. Maybe he's just a young Comrade Roy Cooper?

At the end of the day, a Congress of spineless politicians will vote to send this money to the Ukraine. The legislation will be signed by a brain-dead, senile, old fart who will set his ice cream cone aside to sign the legislation. He will probably tell us that his dead uncle is going to win another Purple Heart in this war. 

What's in it for our nation? We are going to have to borrow this money from the Chinese and the Arabs to send our weapons and troops to Europe to defend a dictatorship from another dictatorship. By the time that our grandchildren pay this debt, it will have cost us 150 billion dollars or more. 

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Korea, Iran, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and now Ukraine. The key to success in the future is to learn from your mistakes in the past. Our leaders show no sign of doing that. 

I am going to end this rant with a note from the past. In 1915, Theodore MacManus was in charge of Cadillac's advertising. He ran an ad in The Saturday Evening Post that was more editorial than ad. It was called "The Penalty of Leadership". The last line was everything we need to know about all of our policies. Even the slow among us can understand this.

"That which deserves to live--lives."