How quickly they forget

| 10:00 pm EDT September 6, 2021
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Republicans are howling because President Biden went ahead with the Afghanistan withdrawal brokered by the Big Liar. In the latest attempt to rewrite history, they are claiming the withdrawal would have been a walk in the park if only Biden had followed Stephen Miller’s racist blueprint.

Oh how quickly they forget. As soon as a Biden and Harris were declared the presumptive winners of the 2020 presidential election, a time-honored process was supposed to begin to prepare the incoming administration to take the reins from the outgoing one. But this was inconceivable! The mango-baby couldn’t handle reality, so his enablers coddled him and stonewalled the orderly transition of power.

GSA administrator Emily W. Murphy refused to recognize the Biden victory, causing several weeks of bureaucratic delays for the incoming administration. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in open denial of Trump’s defeat, promising an orderly transition “to a second Trump term.” In doing so, he prevented incoming diplomats from getting up to speed on matters of state until literally the day Biden took office. Senate Republicans slow-walked the confirmation of hundreds of Biden appointees in a process that continues to this day. Trump even sank so low as to fire the usher who was supposed to show the Bidens into the White House on Inauguration Day.

If Trump and Pompeo had a plan that would have saved American lives, they should have made damn sure to communicate it to the folks who were about to take over their jobs. Who is to blame if you lock your brilliant plan in the back of a desk drawer somewhere?

Republicans would like us to forget that they have been not just cheering for Biden to fail from day one, but actively working to undercut his administration from before he even won the primary. Maybe now with American blood on their hands, some will finally begin to understand why true patriots don’t obstruct the functions of their own government.