It hasn’t taken long for
Republicans to expose themselves as complete hypocrites—again. Republicans
started this whole business of hyper-partisan extremism under the “leadership”
of Newt Gingrich, and it has never let-up. Sure, they were embarrassed by the invasion
of the Capitol Building on the instigation of a president of their party, but their recriminations
didn’t last long, did it? They said one thing yesterday, and today they are
singing a completely different tune. They talk about “healing” and ending the
“division” which they themselves created and exacerbated through their sycophantic
support of a fascist authoritarian who spoke for what turned out to be an
extremist fringe—yet they insist that it is Democrats who must compromise their
ideals and ethics to be in line with Republican moral corruption.
What kind of people are Democrats supposed to genuflect before? Rep. Andy Harris, who is being investigated by Capitol police for trying to bring a gun onto the House floor? Rep. Lauren Boebert, insisting on her “right” to carry her Glock everywhere she goes? Boebert has been setting off metal detectors everywhere because of an object in her purse, and she refuses to allow police to look inside of it before she goes onto the House floor. She tweeted “Metal detectors outside of the House would not have stopped the violence we saw last week – it's just another political stunt by Speaker Pelosi.” That’s interesting—Boebert was among those Republicans who engaged in the political “stunt” that brought about that violence in the first place. She and her cohort of hypocrites could have prevented the violence if only they could have just stopped lying.
Republicans are already outraged that Joe Biden would propose to restore the previous top tax rate of 39.6 for the richest one percent, the cut that was shoe-horned in with the massive 40 percent reduction in the corporate tax rate, while the bottom 10 percent saw only a $50 tax savings on average. Republicans are also “outraged” about suggestions of suspending the filibuster, a tactic they used to shove through over 200 judicial positions with mostly under-qualified, far-right activists “approved” by the far-right Federalist Society—half of the vacancies being holdovers from the Obama administration; most of Obama’s nominees were blocked in the final two years of his administration, with the Republican-controlled Senate confirming only 20 of his judicial nominees. Republicans sold-out what shred of credibility they had when after denying a hearing for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland nine months before the 2016 election, they “justified” breaking their own “rule” in shoe-horning in a replacement for the departed Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before this past election by claiming they they had the "right" to do whatever the hell they wanted.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell is complaining about Biden’s executive orders overturning Trump’s criminal and inhuman “legacy.” Biden wasn’t elected to “continue” Trump’s crimes. McConnell apparently isn’t aware that polls show that a majority of Americans opposed Trump’s actions on a wide variety of issues, including the ACA, DACA and environmental regulation. Some Republicans are also complaining about another round of stimulus checks that their Wall Street buddies who pay their rent support, with one Republican, Rep. Steve Stivers, making the ridiculous claim that only those persons who received Covid vaccinations should receive another check—and this after the Trump administration not only completely bungled the vaccine rollout, but didn’t even have a “plan” for it.
And now after the coup attempt that was brought on with the “assistance” of nearly every Congressional Republican, enabling Trump’s election fraud lies and conspiracies no matter how insane, even those who initially decried Trump’s complicity yesterday are today decrying attempts to bring him to justice for the sake of “healing”—but on their terms, meaning we are all supposed to forget their own role in nearly overturning democracy in this country. Republicans who were involved in this crime against America are the ones who need to stand down and seek “forgiveness”—and get out of the way so that Democrats can repair the damage that Trump and his sycophants and enablers allowed to happen.
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