‘BLOOD ON HIS HANDS’: Even before President Joe Biden addressed the nation to defend his decision to end the U.S. military evacuation operation in Kabul, Republicans furious with what they saw as capitulation to the Taliban began issuing blistering howls of protest.

“Damn the deadline,” said Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse in a statement. “The American people are not going to surrender our fellow citizens to the Taliban. Americans want us to stay until we get our people out, and so do our allies.”