The obsequiousness, the timidity, the shamelessness, the cowardice and praise of reality turned upside down just never end.
I applaud President Trump’s decision to get hundreds of billions of dollars of crucial Covid-19 relief out the door and into the hands of American families as quickly as possible….
His leadership has prevented a government shutdown at a time when our nation could not have afforded one.
— Mitch McConnell, 27 Dec. 2020
Thank you, Mr. President, for putting people over politics.
— Kevin McCarthy, 27 Dec. 2020
The least the Senate majority and House minority leaders could have done was to let the president's calamitously belated signature pass without comment, to try to ignore the rattling skeleton now forever in Republicans' closet, to simply overlook the dayslong conflagration which has come to define this infantile, tantrum-throwing, authoritarian narcissist and sociopathic "disgrace" — the infant's ironic, preferred description of all things anti-Trump.
But, hell no. Praising the arsonist for not striking the last match and dousing the fire he ignited is always the go-to indemnification of the party that, for five years, has handed the firebug all the kindling he needed.
A disgrace indeed.