Shining city on a hill anyone? Anyone?

“We intend to do just that,” remarked a group of senators and representatives at a press conference at the top of the Capitol steps.

“If there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s politicizing things at the cost of our country’s values, general decency, millions of innocent lives abroad, and a stable, prosperous world order in which Russia is diminished by dint of its own savagery so that we can score political points and expand our own power,” said Senator J.D. Vance to the emphatic nods of Senator Tom Cotton and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Congressional leaders have refused to budge in negotiations with the Biden administration on delivering more critical aid to Ukraine in its heroic underdog effort against Vladimir Putin’s loathsome, international norm-destroying onslaught, apparently favoring an outcome where the Russian dictator’s genocidal assault on a sovereign democracy goes unchecked and unpunished.