Archive for August, 2021
DL Open Thread Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021
Everyone acts surprised that Republicans “don’t believe in science,” but they shouldn’t be — conservatives have never bothered to support any of their arguments with data that go beyond anecdotes. To pick the most obvious example, they prattle on and on about trickle-down economics yet have never produced any evidence that it works — indeed, […]
What would the GOP have to do for Coons to lose faith in bipartisanship?
That’s a rhetorical question. The Congressional Republicans are now in open rebellion against our constitutional democracy. There is literally nothing his friends in the GOP could do that would undermine Coons’ idiotic and dangerous faith in bipartisanship.
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative
No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, (congressional Republicans) concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.
Their new claims, some voiced from the highest levels of House Republican leadership, amount to a disinformation campaign being promulgated from the steps of the Capitol, aimed at giving cover to their party and intensifying the threats to political accountability.
DL Celebrates ‘Freedumbs’: Week Of July 25-31
Chronicling this week’s capers and consequences of the anti-vax imbeciles: Maine Legislator, Outspoken Anti-Vaxxer, Gets Covid. So does his wife: Rep. Chris Johansen, a Republican legislator from the Aroostook County town of Monticello who has been an outspoken opponent of coronavirus restrictions, has reportedly contracted COVID-19. The lawmaker’s wife, Cindy Johansen, who is the corresponding […]
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