Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Sunday brushed off Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) threat to vote against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) if he doesn’t “effectively work” with former President Trump.
It’s a moot point because the GOP is not going to win back the Senate.
Mitt: you will never be POTUS.
That said, “Please keep whistling, Senator.”
More of a swat at Trump.
“I haven’t heard anything other than a solid support for his continued leadership.”
I think that Romney meant to say “severely solid support.”
How about stepping up to support a filibuster carve out for voting rights, Mitt. Otherwise, you’re still just a member of the party of evil so shut the funk up
The least repellent and cowardly Republican serving in the Senate. That’s something, I guess.
Senator Mitt “Etch-A-Sketch” Romney blathers again. The sound of one hand clapping…
Here’s Thune recapitulating Romney who’s recapitulating Rounds. The lines are clearly drawn, but Lindsay continues to try to straddle it.
Meanwhile, on Trump’s southern front, he’s fighting this battle. This guy’s picking more fights than Putin.
Fuck mannequin Mitch and fuck Miss Lindsay. That is all.
It’s on, folks. The Dullard vs. the Dotard.
This can be read several ways:
Romney ain’t scare of old Trump
Lindsey needs a big strong man to take care of him
Rounds is tired of Trump’s BS and wants more tax cuts
And Mitch is just being mean to everyone
I have sort of wondered who is the heir apparent to Mitch.
In the Republican Party the divide is between what I think of as the white glove fascists and the bare knuckle fascists, McConnell, Romney, Rounds, Hogan, Thune, etc. vs. Trump, DeSantis and the goon cult. Or the Richie Rich vs the Magats. There’s a big fat class division there and contending political styles. They vote together in a highly successful but unstable marriage of convenience. This is at a time when Trump and the magats dominate, so the white gloves are carving out some safe space to await their return to control.
It’s a conflict worth our attention. How it plays out will impact all of us.
Romney is a Republican for a reason and the only real problem he has with Trump is TFG doesn’t share the grift and his dementia is making the grift too nakedly open so …
Years ago I came across a superb post at alicublog about Ron Paul (including why Paul could play the libertarian and still be comfortable in the Republican party) and kept the link because this paragraph captured an essential piece of what makes the Republican party, including its more extreme elements, work effectively as a party;
These guys can always work together, because they all came out of the same Big Bang of hatred for the New Deal and its legacy: Big Government and the coalition that sustains it -- blacks, gays, unionized workers, women, et alia. Each conservative tribe has its own relationship to that legacy -- some of them (the more intelligent ones, generally) are deeply cynical, and some are as sincere as any schizophrenic street preacher. But all of them deeply hate that a bunch of minorities have coalesced to get something that they think belongs by right to them and people like them, and many of them have learned that it would be more effective (and, these days, more popular) to strike at the state that enables that coalition than at the minorities themselves. – Roy Edroso
I have not kept good tabs on Mittens…but he appears to have disappeared into his shell. If he ever thought we were on a precipice and needed brave, solid Americans…he has reconsidered.
I wish that I was as sure, but…
RIP Marlon Bundo You Gay Icon
Full story:
Marlon Bundo, beloved pet rabbit of the Pence family and celebrated BOTUS (Bunny of the United States), has died. He was between 8 and 10 years old. Bundo’s death was announced by former second daughter Charlotte Pence Bond, who took to social media on Saturday to mourn the family’s loss. “Marlon, you came into our lives at just the moment we needed you most,” she wrote. “I never could have predicted that a little bunny I found on Craigslist for a college student film would give me the courage to write my first book and be the inspiration for two more.” Bundo was the hero of three children’s books, penned by Pence Bond and illustrated by her mother, Karen Pence. Infamously, the rabbit was also the star of a parody story from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver , in which he marries another boy bunny in a pointed jab at former Vice President Mike Pence’s anti-LGBTQ stance. Oliver revealed in March 2018 that his parody book had sold 180,000 copies. In response, Pence Bond commended the fact that the book’s proceeds were being donated to pro-LGBTQ charities. On Saturday, she remembered Bundo as a “ball of love.”
From your lips to dog’s ears.
It’s either one of these guys or one of his car elevators.
(Pro tip: My money’s on one of the car elevators, because they seem more authentic.)
