Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[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.

[Rajoo]

[Chicks]

Romney releases statement for the record on impeachment trial.

“There is a thin line that separates our democratic republic from an autocracy: it is a free and fair election and the peaceful transfer of power that follows it. President[*] Trump attempted to breach that line, again.

There is one untruth that divides the nation today like none other: it is that the election was stolen, that there was a massive conspiracy, more secret and widespread than any in human history, so brilliant in execution that no evidence can be found of it ...

That lie brought our nation to a dark and dangerous place. Invented and disseminated by the President[*], it poisoned our politics and our public discourse”

[Yggdrasill]

This is in part a massive failure of regulators, one that people saw coming years ago. even worse, it's a bit of a repeat. This is one of the results when you elect people to govern who don't believe in government.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...photo-20619322

[Chicks]

Ari Berman @AriBerman

Georgia House Republicans just introduced a bill to ban early voting on Sundays prior to election, when Black churches do Souls to the Polls get out the vote drives

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status...91495178252291

11:57 AM · Feb 18, 2021·Twitter Web App

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Repube voter suppression at its "finest".

[Chicks]

Arkansas state senator says he's leaving Republican Party
A longtime Arkansas legislator and nephew of the state's Republican governor says he's leaving the GOP

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wire...party-75971878

Hendren, the nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, had been more willing than other Republican figures in the state to criticize Trump. In a nine-minute video announcing his decision, he cited Trump's insults about immigrants, women, and John McCain, as well as his false attacks on the election's legitimacy leading up to the Jan. 6 riot.

“For me, that day was the final straw," Hendren said. “I asked myself, what in the world would I tell my grandchildren when they ask one day, what happened and what did I do about it?"

Honest Republicans can't stay in the Trumpublican party, which requires them to lie through their teeth. Sad.