Republicans Being Stupid
Republicans can no longer afford to be the Stupid Party. There is too much at stake.
It was probably former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson who first said that the Republicans are the “Stupid Party.” He may not have invented it, but he said it often enough.
American humorist P.J. O’Rourke once said, “The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
Both of those statements seem a lot less funny than they should these days. Some House Republicans — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Bob Good and others — are working very hard to prove both Simpson and O’Rourke were right.
The stupidity of Greene goes back at least to 2021 when she said that the enemies of Christmas were taking their enmity against the holiday to a whole new level, warning against a conspiracy to use “state-of-the-art Jewish space lasers” to shoot down Santa Claus. She added that the Rothschild banking family was behind the plot against Christmas saying, ““The Rothschilds have already celebrated their own holiday with their little Rothschildren. They call it the Festival of Lasers.”
She’s not just anti-Semitic: she’s really stupid.
Gaetz, of course, was one of the ringleaders of the gang that toppled California Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.
Let’s remember that it took the Republican conference fifteen votes to choose McCarthy as speaker. His leadership was no one’s first choice.
When the Gaetz Gang threw McCarthy out of the speakership, they were objecting to Ukraine aid and calling for “regular order” on spending bills.
Now, Greene, Gaetz, and the others would rather fight among themselves than tackle any of the Democrats’ and Biden’s agendas.
See Also:
Mike Johnson’s moral stand on Ukraine
