Just got an assignment from a RootsAction email blast. I had assumed them another left outfit with a website, but this led me to look closer. The assignment is to ask Congress to lay off on the Russia stuff. RootsAction.org’s website is on the server of CongressFoundation.org, the Congressional Management Foundation, which is by mission of centrist partisanship, with a board from both parties. (Being a centrist is a partisan position, not “nonpartisan.”) So what does Roots Action urge?

So much is at stake in U.S.-Russian relations, including the potential for nuclear annihilation…. [T]he escalation of hostility toward Russia could lead to unfathomable disaster. With the dangers of military confrontation very real -- and with several thousand nuclear weapons pointed in both directions across the U.S.-Russian divide -- it's crucial to take a fresh look at what is at stake.

We should, the “RootsAction Team” urges, contact our senators and representatives, urging them to turn away from the investigations of Russian-linked treason, and focus elsewhere.