Did we need yet more proof that the GOP has no interest in America anymore? That their support of democracy is paper thin, that their very souls are for sale?
The point of Congress is to serve as a balance and check on imperial power, the power a president might seize if left, like an emperor, without representatives of the people to counter the worst impulses of a despot.
The Founding Fathers were well aware of the impulse to unbridled, unchecked power. They knew at first hand the whip, worse the power of Church married to State.
Wisely they embodied the voices of the people in Article 1 — Congress.
Congress is supposed to stand against the complicity with and the shameful annointing of kings. Congress, direct representatives of the people, is supposed to defend us from absolute rulers.
I thought even Republicans believed in the American system.
Clearly I was wrong.