It is “chaos and hate from the GOP as Democrats get to work”. And Democrats are coming out of the block like gangbusters ready to put Republicans in their place!
From Alternet
This week, tensions in Washington continued to grow as President Donald Trump tries to leverage his government shutdown to get his border wall. Meanwhile, a number of state legislatures were sworn in, and the newly-empowered House Democrats began to open investigations into the Trump administration. And in the midst of everything, right-wing politicians and activists are still getting themselves into trouble.
Here are five of the craziest right-wing moments this week:
- Steve King says there’s nothing wrong with white supremacy.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is one of the House GOP’s most frequent humiliations. He has a long history of racist comments, has promoted content from neo-Nazis, and gave an interview to a far-right Austrian party founded by an SS officer while on a Holocaust awareness tour of Europe. But this week, he stepped so far over the line that even he seemed to realize he was in trouble.
In an interview with The New York Times this week, King actually said he didn’t see the problem with being a white supremacist. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”
As even fellow Republicans started to condemn him, King put out a statement attacking the Times for reporting what he said. He also denied being a white nationalist, saying that he was simply a regular nationalist, and “an advocate for Western Civilization’s values” — although it is worth noting he has previously claimed he thinks the reason “Western Civilization” is so good is that is has so many white people contributing to it.
While King managed to barely survive a Democratic challenge last year in his deep-red congressional district, he may face an even harder battle the next time around. That’s because Republicans are so fed up with his antics that he is now facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Randy Feenstra.
It should be no surprise then that Rep Steve King tweeted:
Mr. President @RealDonaldTrump if the time comes that it is necessary for you declare a state of emergency for border security, build the whole wall out of concrete. Let it stand forever as a monument to the Rule of Law.
The Rule of Law??? He has to be kidding. Unfortunately he is not. This racist idiot knows nothing of the Rule of Law!
This is just the first of five examples of Republicans lost in the morass of their own making. Undoubtedly there are many more but there is no room to list them all. Click through for the other four.
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Gawd, they’re all out of control !!! Talk about hell in a hand-basket, they certainly are!!
You’re right! Great minds DO fall in the same ditch.
i think the GOPs are pooping themselves!!!
YAY dem’s, go get ’em!!!
As I said when TC posted the link to this, you know you are living in chaos when someone like me, who does follow the news to the best of his/her ability, has only heard of three of them.
I had not heard of the “hallway roulette” quote. My goodness. Did he dream that one up all by himself? Clearly he does not realize that it shows him up as someone with even fewer principles that Orange Judas, who may need a teleprompter to make sense, but doesn’t need one to spout off (idiotic) ideas on the instant.
I also had not heard of Tennessee’s House assigning an accused sexual predator in charge of education. On the grounds that an accusation is not a conviction. Well, no, it isn’t. It would, however, be a real shame if this appointment gives him the green light to turn it into one. I Thessalonians 5:22 must not be in their Bibles … or else they have been suckered into different interpretation of it.
Nothing but a bunch of bozos…maybe, now, a very worried, scared bunch of bozos. I had not heard of anything from Rudi for a while, has he been out wandering the streets in a daze?
Elijah Cummings was just seen on “60 Minutes,” saying that his committee’s capacity to investigate “Anything!” is a boon and a problem, because “There is so much,” to investigate.
He recently said he will be the first person to see Mueller’s report, and he will correct it. Fact. I know, right?
Well, if the great Drumpf thinks there’s nothing wrong with being a white supremacist as they include “some very fine people”, who are we to say that Steve King can’t think he’s on of those fine people?
I’m still very confused about nr 4. Evangelical activists demand LGBTQ protections be removed from anti-lynching bill.
I was very late with my comment yesterday, so perhaps someone can explain the error in my thinking here.
The way I read it, the Liberty Council is upset because “lynchings of LGBTQ persons are included as crimes”, which to me means that the bill must contain a (limited) list of ‘types’ of people which Americans are not supposed to kill in “bias-motivated mob killings”, but that any other ‘types’ not mentioned are quite OK to lynch. Yes, I’m a foreigner, which might explain why I think that ALL mob killings are explicitly not based on jurisdiction and therefore implicitly bias-motivated and criminal. I firmly believe that all lynchings are criminal, no matter who is killed by the mob.
If there is no such list in this bill, as I fervently hope, wouldn’t lobbying for an exemption which allows Talibangelists to lynch LGBTQ persons be absolutely ludicrous and even a crime in itself?