Trying to Define Themselves....

They struggle to explain their newfound notoriety and ask the media and the public to be patient while they 'try to define themselves'....

For the past several decades they have stood not for policy, but rather obstruction.  Their message is "how can I stop them from doing something; or how can I reverse or cancel what they have done."  Their positions were not empathetic to people's needs.  They were and are only concerned with those who contribute to them, and how they can maintain their power.

 

For the past 9 years they have mostly been concerned with rejecting everything Obama, including his nomination for a Supreme Court Justice even though they knew it was legally and morally wrong.  They have strived to spend as much as possible when in power and then whine incessantly about the 'deficit' and 'debt' when they are not.  Their focus and most significant accomplishments over the past 4 years were to pass a huge tax cut for the wealthy, increase our debt by over 1 trillion dollars, ignore any legislative action with the exception of filling our judicial system with right wing judges and find any way possible to stop Americans from accessing affordable health care.  They presided over the destruction of our institutions and blindly supported a lying autocrat as he systematically deconstructed our government.

 

Most recently, 147 of them rose to reject the results of our LEGAL national election, without any evidence other than their allegiance to a liar.  They supported the lie, and attempted to overturn the will of the people and abort the peaceful transition of power.

 

As soon as the election was over, in response to the overwhelming increase in new voters of color, they mobilized the state legislatures they control to introduce new statutes to further restrict and suppress voting and redraw new voting district borders to increase gerrymandering.  Over 106 new bills have been introduced since November 3rd in 28 state legislatures--3 times as many as the year before.

 

They sent to Congress new freshman members who advocate assassinating other members of Congress, advancing debunked conspiracy theories and who still support the lie that the election was stolen.  When a majority of the House revoked the committee assignments of the most vocal of them, all except 11 of the over 200 of them in the House rose to give her a round of applause when she stepped up to the microphone to lie about her past actions and statements.  A surprising number of them stood in support of the insurrection at the Capitol, and when the person who incited the insurrection was impeached, 45 of the 50 of them in the Senate said we should just 'move on' because the impeachment was unconstitutional.  It isn't.  None of them except 10 have supported accountability for inciting sedition and insurrection.  And when those 10 stood for principle against the insurrectionist, all the rest of them, including their supporters in the electorate have tried to censure and eject them from their elective office.

 

What images do names like Hawley, Green, Cruz, Gohmert, Boebert, Brooks, McCarthy, Gaetz, Scalise, Stefanik, Jordan, Nunes, and Tuberville conjur up in your minds?  And for me, the most disgusting name on this list is Rick Scott of Florida (lives in my hometown--how embarrassing!).

 

And they all ask for our patience as they try to define themselves?  I think they have done that rather well actually.