Traitors

Companion articles to the New Civil War? posted a few days ago. These are the names of the Republican traitors that have violated their Oaths of Office and the United States Constitution.

Unhappy with the 2020 Election results, they’ve decided to betray hundreds of millions of Americans and simply try to overturn the election. They’ve miserably failed, but that does not mean we should ever forgive them. None of them deserve to be still in office and all should be prosecuted.

They decided to attack democracy itself when the results did not go their way.

Don’t be fooled by whatever ornate excuses they make. This was not an attempt to find new evidence or even more absurdly “defend the constitution”. It was objectively the opposite. Perhaps some of these 126 believed this a way to raise money from the base, insurance against a difficult partisan primary, or more to the point, insurance against an uncomfortable tweet from President Donald Trump. They surrendered their conscience and common sense because of fear and greed. Rarely have so many sold out their country for so little.

These chose to support a case based on false claims and lack of evidence. And it’s particularly pathetic to see them do it for a weak and insecure lame duck President Trump, a would-be autocrat who’s driving this nation to some kind of desperate reckoning based on nothing more than his own psychological inability to deal with the fact he lost an election and lost the ability to recognize reality as well. In most cases, that would be dismissed as a sad form of sickness that’s incompatible with the power of the presidency, but these folks chose to trade their integrity to support Trump’s delusion all the way up to the Supreme Court.

They followed the lead of the indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who has been accused by his closest aides of bribery and abuse of power.

As conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg wrote with moral clarity in the Dispatch: “It is an act of cynical, unpatriotic, undemocratic hypocrisy unrivaled in American history, a pure power play on behalf of a president whose disregard for the very Constitution these people have long claimed to adore is total. It is shameful. Infuriatingly shameful.” History will judge them as cowards and villains.

The full list of the 126, all Republicans:

Alabama
Robert B. Aderholt
Mo Brooks
Bradley Byrne
Gary Palmer
Mike D. Rogers

Arizona
Andy Biggs
Debbie Lesko

Arkansas
Rick Crawford

California
Ken Calvert
Doug LaMalfa
Kevin McCarthy
Tom McClintock

Colorado
Ken Buck
Doug Lamborn

Florida
Gus Bilirakis
Mario Diaz-Balart
Neal Dunn
Matt Gaetz
Bill Posey
John Rutherford
Ross Spano
Greg Steube
Michael Waltz
Daniel Webster
Ted Yoho

Georgia
Rick Allen
Buddy Carter
Doug Collins
A. Drew Ferguson
Jody Hice
Barry Loudermilk
Austin Scott

Idaho
Russ Fulcher
Mike Simpson

Illinois
Mike Bost
Darin M. LaHood

Indiana
James Baird
Jim Banks
Trey Hollingsworth
Greg Pence
Jackie Walorski

Iowa
Steve King

Kansas
Ron Estes
Roger Marshall

Louisiana
Ralph Abraham
Clay Higgins
Mike Johnson
Steve Scalise

Maryland
Andy Harris

Michigan
Jack Bergman
Bill Huizenga
John Moolenaar
Tim Walberg

Minnesota
Tom Emmer
Jim Hagedorn
Pete Stauber

Mississippi
Michael Guest
Trent Kelly
Steven Palazzo

Missouri
Sam Graves
Vicky Hartzler
Billy Long
Blaine Luetkemeyer
Jason Smith
Ann Wagner

Montana
Greg Gianforte

Nebraska
Jeff Fortenberry
Adrian Smith

New Jersey
Jefferson Van Drew

New York
Elise Stefanik
Lee Zeldin

North Carolina
Dan Bishop
Ted Budd
Virginia Foxx
Richard Hudson
Greg Murphy
David Rouzer
Mark Walker

Ohio
Bob Gibbs
Bill Johnson
Jim Jordan
Robert E. Latta
Brad Wenstrup

Oklahoma
Kevin Hern
Markwayne Mullin

Pennsylvania
John Joyce
Fred Keller
Mike Kelly
Daniel Meuser
Scott Perry
Guy Reschenthaler
Glenn Thompson

South Carolina
Jeffrey Duncan
Ralph Norman
Tom Rice
William Timmons
Joe Wilson

Tennessee
Tim Burchett
Scott DesJarlais
Chuck Fleischmann
Mike Green
David Kustoff
John Rose

Texas
Jodey Arrington
Brian Babin
Kevin Brady
Michael C. Burgess
Michael Cloud
K. Michael Conaway
Dan Crenshaw
Bill Flores
Louie Gohmert
Lance Gooden
Kenny Marchant
Randy Weber
Roger Williams
Ron Wright

Virginia
Ben Cline
Morgan Griffith
Robert J. Wittman

Washington
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Dan Newhouse

West Virginia
Carol Miller
Alex Mooney

Wisconsin
Tom Tiffany