GOP Failure Watch Part VI (Majority in House Edition) The Insurrection Caucus Sh*tshow.

It's like Mark Robinson read about Diddy and said, "Hold my beer!"

 

Are you sure it was beer?

 

That's the kind that winds up down here in LA often enough.

 

And be able to use the hard r without consequence.

 

IMO, probably not. I think that after Trump fails this year, it will be the end of Trump as a presidential candidate but not the end of MAGA . Politicians are always talking about their "base" (like a PR person talking about "branding"), and the MAGA base is the easiest to rile up. As long as there is a MAGA type base in the party (Tea Party, John Birch Society, Christian Right Wing, etc) the party is doomed to have the crazies dominate the party and the George H Bush types have no chance. I remember Pat Buchanan once saying that "you have to throw raw meat at the base" - and say the stuff they want you to hear. Crazy.

But to be honest, we've seen the Dems also leaning more and more towards the crazies. We might be screwed.

 

I am super depressed about how we are litigating some social issue. Not to bring stuff up that will send this into a different directions, but a lot of the cultural stuff seems nutty to me. Maybe its my age. But we would've just laughed off a lot of stuff before and not attack other people for it.

One quick example, and its something Bill Maher brought up recently, there were recent public attacks on Cheryl Hines for not denouncing RFK Jr for supporting Trump - the attacks were made by some pretty public liberals. We would've never done that in the past; go after a spouse? What is that solving? I've worked on campaigns and on issues, and stuff like that was waaay off bounds at one point. Now it seems that everyone wants a quick "dunk" so they can get likes.

 

I did a quick search and only came up with one actor, someone I had never heard of before, who attacked her for that.

As far as going after spouses, Republicans have a very long history of doing just that - Bill Clinton's wife and Barack Obama's wife, while those guys were president, come to mind very quickly.

 

Dear sir, Bradley Whitford was the villain in Billy Madison! put some respect on his career.

 

Never saw it. And he was the only name that came up in my search.

 

Good talk Rust.

 

Doesn’t Whitfield have a sibling or cousin that recently ran for office? I think that’s the case.

 

Also a villain on "The Mentalist," but a central figure on "The West Wing." Excellent actor.

 

I went through imdb and found only three shows that I may have seen him in, if I watched that particular episode: X-Files, Parks and Recreation, and one other that I can't remember now.

 

Not a single episode of either.

 

Having never heard of this actor does it mean I'm too old or too young?

 

I get the nitpick argument about Maher. But was there any blow back for Whitford saying that? Or, does anyone here think that its messed up?

 

And then Conservative media spent the next few days saying the guy was her husband's gay lover and they were having a lover's quarrel...