A GOP Primary Loss Couldn't Have Happened to a Nicer Guy: The Andy Ogles Story

Originally published at: A GOP Primary Loss Couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer Guy: The Andy Ogles Story

Good Riddance It takes a lot to be among the most odious Republican members of this Congress. Let me reacquaint you with Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN). What makes Ogles special is that he managed to be a virulent Islamophobe, Christian nationalist, and fabulist — really the trifecta of qualifications for current House GOPers — and…

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An incredible unsurprise! Simply incredible! The unsurprise of the century!

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Why people vote Republican

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This was obvious the moment Murkowski announced she was voting no.

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They are all of them simply horrible people.

Horrible, irredeemable miscreants.

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As Charles Pierce writes, these really are the Mole People. Thanks, Senator Cassidy, you’re a true, red-blooded American…idiot.

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He also didn’t held off ruling on Hearn’s alternative request for access to the grand jury materials that could potentially make D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro squirm even more than she already is. Stay tuned on this one.

“Whaddaya mean DC courts are not as corrupt as Westchester County? That’s not what my sources on Faux and in the Oval tell me!”

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Shit on him. Good kitty!

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Suboptimal, but we’ll take it.

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I’m pretty sure abusing your wife (must be wife) is a tenet of Johnson’s faith. {Sarcasm}We’re discriminating against Christians by wanting to discipline Miller and expecting Johnson to support that. He has religious liberty on his side.{/Sarcasm}

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THIS needs to be hung around the neck of EVERY Gooper in the House – they are CONDONING wife beating and child abuse.

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In the US, there has been a huge uptick in occurrences of a fungal infection known as Valley Fever, and dust storms have been fingered as the cause. The illness, which often presents similarly to bronchitis or pneumonia, can last for months and is sometimes fatal. Valley fever is endemic to the dry and dusty southwest, but it is being diagnosed increasingly often in other parts of the country.

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I’ve been exposed to Coccidioidomycosis and have the static pulmonary nodules to show for it. I’ve known two people that’ve died from it. Serious disease for certain ethnic groups, especially, for some reason, Black folks and Filipinos, who are at a higher risk that the spores, when inhaled, will progress to a more serious illness.

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I’d be up for it if the cat’d step down on his chest and walk along the tie on its way to the podium.
Oh, and is their any chance of spraying here?

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Many of us native to AZ and the rest of the southwest show the results of Valley Fever on our lungs at X-ray. One of the perks of living here.

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The dumb and despicable M.D. caucus strikes again.

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