Senator Tommy Tuberville: “The Covid really brought it out how bad our schools are and how bad our teachers are — in the inner city. Most of them in the inner city, I don’t know how they got degrees, to be honest with you. I don’t know whether they can read and write. … They want a raise, they want less time to work, less time in school. We ruined work ethic in this country.”
Tommy would have been right at home on a southern plantation.
Senator John Kennedy: “Without the people of America, Mexicans would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent.”
International diplomacy at its best.
News report: “The woman who accused Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential race defected to Russia.”
Now, there’s a sentence, I confess, I really enjoyed reading. Republicans sure know how to pick their “whistle blowers.”
Rep. Dan Bishop, threatening McCarthy over the debt ceiling deal: “I’m just fed up with the lies. I’m fed up with the lack of courage — the cowardice. And I intend to see to it that there’s somebody who’s prepared to say what needs to be done.”
Come on Danny! You’ve got lots of Republican leaders who are very good at “saying” what “needs to be done.” Trump was excellent at the mouth part of achievement. What you need are folks who are good at the achieving part of achievement.
Hey, the Democrats have lots of folks like that. We could loan you one if you’re actually serious about doing more than talking.
Lauren Boebert, a year or so ago: “Ladies, all marital difficulties can be solved by the power you have in Christ.”
Boebert last week announced that she is divorcing her husband.
Ah well, I guess there are limits on the “power of Christ.”
Frankly, if you look around the conservative world these days, God is doing an awful lot of losing. That must be a wee bit disconcerting for the good church folk.
But, to be honest, as someone who follows this stuff, and, frankly, knows the Bible a whole lot better than God’s good folk seem to, I’m willing to cut the Almighty some slack.
I seem to remember hearing, from preachers especially, that the reason God isn’t always intervening in spectacular ways in earthly affairs is because he works through human beings to enact his will.
Well I feel for him. It’s got to be tough even for divinity to work through the clowns that make up his team here on earth these days. Not a Moses or Joshua in sight. Just one son of Sceva after the other …