{"id":32913,"date":"2021-05-08T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T03:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32913"},"modified":"2021-05-08T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T03:13:19","slug":"they-might-be-misogynists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/08\/they-might-be-misogynists\/","title":{"rendered":"They Might Be Misogynists"},"content":{"rendered":"

But that’s more a result of what they really are: a pack of third- and fourth-raters. House of Representatives Republicans, that is. Jennifer Rubin, perhaps rhetorically, expresses disbelief at the latest GOP<\/strong><\/em> reaction to the Democrats’ response to the January 6th Insurrection, or Revolution of the Five Year Olds<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) earned kudos from truth-tellers in March when she\u00a0released a report<\/a>\u00a0simply documenting the social media posts of Republicans \u201cwho voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.\u201d She compiled\u00a0their<\/i> words, revealing a hodgepodge of conspiracy-mongering and lying about the 2020 election. This was too much for the snowflake Republicans.<\/p>\n

They have now filed a complaint, a copy of which I have obtained, with the Communication Standards Commission, an obscure body in the House formerly known as the Mailing Standards Commission, as it historically dealt primarily with franking issues.<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed by Rep. Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (R-Ga.), whines: \u201cAt its core, the so-called report repeatedly violates the Commission\u2019s rules of decorum and civility by personalizing and politicizing attacks on more than 100 Members of Congress for public statements they made on social media.\u201d Actually, it simply recorded Republicans\u2019 own words, thereby embarrassing them. He claims the report \u201cengages in speculation as to the motivation or intent of the Members,\u201d but it does no such thing. The giveaway is that Carter claims Lofgren only \u201cinsinuates\u201d members \u201caided and abetted the insurrection or incited the attack\u201d on Jan. 6. [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But it’s merely a compilation of their own self-incriminating words, so that dog won’t hunt with the most important audience – the American electorate.<\/p>\n

Republicans\u2019 political stupidity is hard to fathom. They chose to attack a strong, informed woman (arguably the most knowledgeable on the subject of impeachment and a master of House rules) for airing their own rhetoric. Did they really think they were going to silence Zoe Lofgren, of all people?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to think of a better way for Republicans to remind Americans of their own wholly irresponsible conduct. (The complaint will go nowhere since the commission is split 3-to-3.) What\u2019s more, the timing is priceless. This comes the same week the GOP is attempting to banish Cheney from leadership for the \u201ccrime\u201d of honesty, for refusing to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug and for refusal to kneel (as they have) before the MAGA cult leader. They simply cannot abide truth-telling women.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. But I think that the Republican members are simply overwhelmed. They distrust experts, their concept of a legislative strategy is to say No! No! No!<\/em> to any substantial legislation, and, rather than engage, they have returned to the old strategy of cultural warfare. They do not have the wit or maturity to attempt to govern in a responsible manner, and I believe their ideological and theological roots will prevent them from progressing on the governing front.<\/p>\n

They may think that their former business patrons turning against them can be turned to their advantage through wooden gestures to woke<\/em> culture, but I suspect that the Democrats will beat their political foes to death with the insurrection club. Common political wisdom has the Democrats losing the House and, perhaps, the Senate in 2022. I disagree. I expect the Democrats to strengthen their grip on each wing of the legislature.<\/p>\n

Perhaps substantially<\/em>. The Republicans have to defend a large number of seats in the Senate in 2022, and everything is up for grabs in the House. There may be a very unhappy Mitch McConnell in the Senate in a couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But that’s more a result of what they really are: a pack of third- and fourth-raters. House of Representatives Republicans, that is. Jennifer Rubin, perhaps rhetorically, expresses disbelief at the latest GOP reaction to the Democrats’ response to the January 6th Insurrection, or Revolution of the Five Year Olds: Rep. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32916,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32913\/revisions\/32916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}