I am not a gambler. But if I were, I would always bet against congressional Republicans acting with integrity or demonstrating political courage. As Todd Blanche inches closer to shaking his “acting” title and becoming the permanent attorney general, that has never been more obvious.

Sadly, in the age of Donald Trump, the once-Grand Old Party has become synonymous with capitulation. A congressional party once led by powerful men like Senator Bob Dole and Speaker Joseph Cannon has been reduced to having Mike Johnson and John Thune in charge.

To say they are spineless is unfair to invertebrates — many of which at least have cartilage.

Yet the legacy media, intent on finding heroes where none exist and longing for false equivalency, refuses to learn this lesson.

In 2020, they heaped praise on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for refusing to do the impossible — find 11,000 votes that did not exist. Since then, Raffensperger has proven himself a loyal GOP foot soldier in the fight against voting rights. So, the legacy media is left to look elsewhere.

Its most recent targets for false praise are Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. Both men are retiring — Cornyn after Trump humiliated him by endorsing his primary opponent, Ken Paxton, who beat him decisively.

For a brief period, the senators had been holding out on advancing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination, citing concerns about Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund." The fund was part of a corrupt deal to "settle" Trump's lawsuit against the IRS. The agreement was to use the fund to compensate the president's political allies — including those involved with Jan. 6.

This week, we learned how little it took for Tillis and Cornyn to change their minds. After Blanche issued an order claiming to terminate the fund, Tillis and Cornyn quickly hopped on board with nominating the acting attorney general for the permanent post, with the flair for obsequience we have become accustomed to.

"We want to express our gratitude to Mr. Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to advance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon," Cornyn and Tillis said in a joint statement.

I expect that as they wrote this, they had tears in their eyes...