It seemed like Kevin McCarthy had thrown Democrats a lifeline. When the likely future Speaker of the House absentmindedly mused about his conference’s willingness to cut off America’s support for Ukraine’s war effort, Democrats were quick to leverage his disparagement of this popular initiative for all it was worth. But just as Democrats like President Joe Biden began to retail this new line of attack against the GOP, progressives swooped in to pull the rug out from under their own party. Again.
In an inexplicably bizarre episode on Monday, 30 House progressives sent a co-signed letter to the White House urging Joe Biden to seek a negotiated settlement with Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine. The letter was incoherent. It urges Biden to find a way to preserve a “free and independent Ukraine,” while appeasing both Moscow and Kyiv—a lovely idea no one had previously considered. It legitimized Russia’s nuclear brinkmanship by insisting that the risk of “World War III” is so pronounced that the West must pare back its objectives in Eastern Europe, but without sacrificing the interests of any party to this conflict.
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