It's so easy to find Republican rot, stinking from the head all the way to the tail. We didn't take long this morning.
Billy Bush, former "Access Hollywood" host, has a searing op/ ed in the New York Times that underscores what everyone, including serial sexual predator Donald "Rump" Trump, knows:
He said it. “Grab ’em by the pussy.”
Of course he said it. And we laughed along, without a single doubt that this was hypothetical hot air from America’s highest-rated bloviator. Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this was real.
We now know better. [snip]
This moment in American life is no doubt painful for many women. It is especially painful for the women who have come forward, at the risk of forever being linked to one event, this man, this president of the United States. (I still can’t believe I just wrote that.)
To these women: I will never know the fear you felt or the frustration of being summarily dismissed and called a liar, but I do know a lot about the anguish of being inexorably linked to Donald Trump. You have my respect and admiration. You are culture warriors at the forefront of necessary change.The monster of whom he speaks came out this morning and tweeted (of course) his endorsement of fellow serial (underage) sexual predator Roy Moore for the Senate seat in Alabama because of course he would:
Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2017
While we're on Alabama, and as a sign of the pervasive Republican rot, look at this recent poll of Alabama Republicans:
A new CBS News poll finds 71 percent of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false, and those who believe this also overwhelmingly believe Democrats and the media are behind those allegations.
And we have to share this country with these pig people. Sic transit gloria, America.
Desiccated Republican corn cob Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa has some contempt for his fellow Americans to share (spoiler alert: it's not the top 1 percent):
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing — as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies,” Grassley told the Des Moines Register in an interview published Saturday. Grassley, who serves on the Finance Committee, made the remark when asked about the Senate tax reform measure which would double the exemption for estates to $11 million for an individual and $22 million for a couple. Heirs would inherit the estates tax-free.Several days ago, we linked to a comment made by fellow desiccated Republican pluto-populist Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, but it's worth displaying again. Here he's bloviating about funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), whose funding has lapsed thanks to his fellow scrotums:
"... I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions, trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves. Won’t lift a finger. Expect the federal government to do everything. [snip]
In unfortunately the liberal philosophy, created millions of people that way [sic]. Believe everything they are or ever hope to be depend on the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them."Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein on the lack of truth, responsibility and respect for American institutions exhibited by Republicans, and how it has "broken" Congress:
Even today, many people like to imagine that the damage has all been President Trump’s doing — that he took the Republican Party hostage. But the problem goes much deeper. [snip]
Mr. Trump’s election and behavior during his first 10 months in office represent not a break with the past but an extreme acceleration of a process that was long underway in conservative politics. The Republican Party is now rationalizing and enabling Mr. Trump’s autocratic, kleptocratic, dangerous and downright embarrassing behavior in hopes of salvaging key elements of its ideological agenda: cutting taxes for the wealthy (as part of possibly the worst tax bill in American history), hobbling the regulatory regime, gutting core government functions and repealing Obamacare without any reasonable plan to replace it.There has always been a core of roughly 25- 30 percent of the adult American population in this rotting tribe that has rationalized the Great Depression and the Great Recession, racism/ segregation, Watergate, police violence, Islamophobia, homophobia, blatant wealth redistribution-- you name the offense. They've been with us since the beginning of the Republic, in one form or another, and they'll continue to be with us in the future, in one form or another. Their rot is an ethical, moral, social and cultural rot, but it won't end their political drive. The challenge we must meet is to defeat them again and again and again.
