Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[Chicks]

The Birthplace of the Republican Party Buckles After Trump Nearly Blew Up the GOP

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...-up-gop-469155

[Chicks]

Republicans have tied themselves to an anvil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...lves-an-anvil/

The decision should have been easy: Do you want to stick by an overwhelmingly unpopular former president who potentially has both civil and criminal liabilities, or do you want a fresh start for a party in need of new ideas? Republicans, remarkably, chose the former.

Quinnipiac’s most recent poll highlights the Republicans’ dilemma. By a 75 percent to 21 percent margin, Republicans “would like to see [former president Donald Trump] play a prominent role in the Republican Party.” However, overall, “Americans say 60-34 percent that they do not want Trump to play a prominent role in the Republican Party.” Even worse: “A majority of Americans, 55-43 percent, say Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office in the future. Republicans say 87-11 percent that Trump should be allowed to hold elected office in the future.”

Further, a majority of Americans (54 percent) think Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. An even higher percentage (55 percent) think the assault would not have happened without him. An astounding 68 percent think the former commander in chief did not do enough to stop the siege.

...yet these idiot Trumpkins are tied to their boat anchor, because it's a cult...

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Republicans have tied themselves to an anvil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...lves-an-anvil/



...yet these idiot Trumpkins are tied to their boat anchor, because it's a cult...

[Chicks]

How Much the Oil and Gas Industry Paid Texas Republicans Who Are Lying About Wind Energy

https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-much...can-1846288505

[RickeyM]

I had to correct a family member that started on about "those turbines that froze up". I told her about the actual percentage of the grid that wind provides and told her that picture of deicer being sprayed on a frozen wind turbine that's circulating on the internet is actually from Sweden.

[Chicks]

Capitol Police Investigate 2 GOP Lawmakers Over House Metal Detector Incidents

The agency is looking at whether a lawmaker assaulted a police officer and an alleged attempt by another lawmaker to carry a gun into the House Chamber.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6...32961b2d8e?aod

The lawless and disorderly party. SMH.

[Chicks]

Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...n-you-lie-lot/

Incompetence is not the purview of one party. But when you view politics as theater and grievance-mongering, chances are you are going to shortchange governance. Elect a president with no public-sector experience, no interest in learning, no desire to hire competent people and no ability to accept responsibility, and you get something like the covid-19 debacle. Moreover, if your party is hostile to government and exercising regulatory power because it is beholden to a donor class and right-wing ideologues, you will not be prepared for disasters when they strike.

And that brings us to Texas. The Post reports, “As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed his ire at one particular failure in the state’s independent energy grid: frozen wind turbines.” There is one problem: That is not remotely true (as you might have guessed from a state with an enormous oil and gas sector). “The governor’s arguments were contradicted by his own energy department, which outlined how most of Texas’s energy losses came from failures to winterize the power-generating systems, including fossil fuel pipelines.”

In other words, rotten policy and management are to blame. “What has sent Texas reeling is not an engineering problem, nor is it the frozen wind turbines blamed by prominent Republicans,” The Post reports. “It is a financial structure for power generation that offers no incentives to power plant operators to prepare for winter. In the name of deregulation and free markets, critics say, Texas has created an electric grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices over reliable service.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who had declared during last summer’s wildfires that California is “unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity,” had to eat crow.

Republicans such as Cruz need to stop looking for ways to disenfranchise voters, engaging in climate change denial, fanning the flames of anti-immigrant hysteria and sustaining an economic environment that puts millions of his constituents in peril year after year. Abbott needs to take responsibility for a natural disaster made worse by a governing fiasco. Right now, Texas is not looking good. If only someone there could step up and govern.

[Chicks]

Texas governor walks back Fox News comments on Green New Deal, says gas, coal failed in Texas freeze

https://theweek.com/speedreads/96754...d-texas-freeze

Doh! Caught in a lie. Sad.

[Chicks]

TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ
Screw The Cold!!!
... CANCUN, HERE I COME!!!


https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/18/ted-c...ater-freezing/

Typical Repube “leadership”.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ
Screw The Cold!!!
... CANCUN, HERE I COME!!!


https://www.tmz.com/2021/02/18/ted-c...ater-freezing/

Typical Repube “leadership”.

Is there any way to keep him from returning? An immigrant seditionist shouldn't be allowed back in.