What would possibly we name this second? The politics of pouting? To paraphrase the late comic Henny Youngman, Take Rick Scott, please!
Florida’s most junior Sen. Rick Scott, R-”I’m Gonna Inform Mother!” has been in a self-righteous hissy-fit mode these days, to not point out full-blown hypocrisy.
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The Fifth Modification senator was outraged, shocked, miffed and scandalized, that President Joe Biden had the gall to go on trip.
It appears the Senate’s reply to “The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless’s” Gort, slammed Biden for heading off to his Delaware house as an alternative of burning the midnight oil within the White Home.
What an inspiration, Scott was, managing to search out the time to drag himself away from the poop deck on a luxurious yacht he occurred to be vacationing on off the coast of Italy to castigate Biden for going to Delaware, which is a mere 111 miles from Washington.
All presidents are incessantly knocked for taking time away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. George W. Bush typically visited that dreadful ranch in Crawford, Texas, the place he spent a lot of his time clearing brush. Ronald Reagan went to California, to additionally (sigh) clear brush. (What’s it about some presidents and the epidemic of brush to clear?) Barack Obama jetted off to vacation pretty occasionally in comparison with his friends. And, in fact, Donald Trump put in loads of time at his varied resorts, maybe to spend time caressing high secret categorised paperwork.
It’s attainable Scott, the Senate’s token hologram, doesn’t notice presidents don’t “trip” like the remainder of us. The place the president goes so does the equipment of the White Home. Except, maybe, should you’re Donald Trump and you must be watched continuously to be sure you don’t flush the nuclear codes down the bathroom. However we digress.
Do you recognize the sense of ironic balderdash that Scott was lambasting Biden for merely happening the highway a bit to his home from a person whose get together is much less productive within the Senate than Lucille Ball and Ethel on the sweet wrapper meeting line. Actually now, Uday and Qusay confirmed up for work extra typically than the U.S. Senate.
Certainly, Scott himself got here in for some flack for operating off to Italy as an alternative of performing his personal duties because the chairman of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee, which is meant to be working to elect GOP candidates to the world’s foremost assortment of right-wing demagogues.
Who is aware of? It’s attainable Scott was attempting to lock up that essential Amalfi Coast vote.
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To be truthful, Scott’s job attempting to elect Republican candidates has been, uh, “difficult” inasmuch because the crop of aspirants typically appears to be like like “Dumb & Dumber” meets “Triumph of the Will.”
The sector is littered (actually) with election deniers, sexists, head circumstances, Trump-loving garden jockeys and the odd antisemite thrown in only for chuckles.
In Georgia, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker who has been dogged by revelations of youngsters he has sired after which deserted, spousal abuse and being simply plain silly, stated this lately about Democrats’ local weather, well being care and taxes invoice: “They’re not serving to you out as a result of some huge cash, it’s going to timber. … Don’t we’ve sufficient timber round right here?”
Blake Masters, who’s operating for the Senate from Arizona, has advised World Battle I used to be instigated by Jewish banking homes and employed two pretend electors from the 2020 presidential election to work on his marketing campaign.
Mehmet Oz, vying for a Pennsylvania Senate seat, till lately lived in New Jersey and incumbent Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson remains to be ducking questions on his efforts at hand over a slate of fraudulent electors to then Vice President Mike Pence in an effort to overturn the lawful election of Biden.
Scott’s already daunting prospects weren’t made any simpler when Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, in a uncommon act of candor, famous the Republicans had a “candidate high quality” downside, which was actually one other of claiming, “We’re doomed by this assortment of dopes.”
That prompted an indignant Scott to rebuke McConnell by suggesting his get together’s chief had dedicated: “A tremendous act of cowardice, and finally treasonous to the trigger.”
Is that so? Actually? Stating the apparent is cowardice and treasonous, too?
What is actually cowardly shouldn’t be standing as much as the seditious loser of Mar-a-Lago, who’s liable for selling a slate of grifters, insurrectionists and dimbulbs. What’s treasonous is cooking the books to repair the midterm elections and past by attempting to elect, ahem, to place it gently, “semi-fascists” to workplace.
And that, Sen. Scott is like crusing your yacht into an iceberg of tyranny. Bon voyage.
