"...To briefly summarize, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, pointing to research on public safety, indoor pollution, and childhood asthma, raised the prospect of new safeguards related to gas stoves. No one would be forced to replace their existing stoves, but a political backlash soon followed anyway — with far too many Republicans effectively telling the public that President Joe Biden was on his way to American kitchens to take their ovens away.
Among the things to remember about this is a simple truth: Republicans know how dumb this is. They know Biden, wrench in hand, will not confiscate any household appliances.
But the party can’t shake its reliance on juvenile antics. The focus on Dr. Seuss, Potato Head dolls, and inefficient lightbulbs has given way to pointless rhetoric about gas ovens and executive orders about critical race theory in states in which no schools teach critical race theory.
Republicans
do this for a variety of reasons, none of which is especially
compelling: The party enjoys scoring cheap points, keeping activists
they see as fools fully engaged, providing fodder for conservative
media, and creating the basis for new fundraising gimmicks..." -- Steve Benen, Maddowblog, on the latest "juvenile antic" of the rotted- out Republican Party. (Whatever happened to "they're comin' to git yer guns!"?) We suppose this is what they think of as a wedge issue for suburban women, but there may be, um, other issues more at the forefront:
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
