GOP Senator's nasty meltdown shows corruption of Trump defenders

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/16/gop-senators-nasty-meltdown-shows-corruption-trump-defenders/

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer

Jan. 16, 2020 at 3:28 p.m. EST

If you were a United States Senator who just snapped angrily at a reporter for politely asking whether compelling new information about a matter of great import to the nation was weighing on your understanding of that consequential matter, you probably wouldn’t see this as something to advertise.

But then again, you’re not Martha McSally of Arizona. McSally just did exactly this -- yet she is now treating it as a badge of honor, as something to boast about.

In a perverse way, it’s fitting that this episode is going viral at exactly the moment when President Trump’s impeachment trial is getting underway -- that is, at exactly the moment when Trump’s defenders in the Senate are set to put on a great show of pretending to give serious consideration to the case against Trump, before voting to acquit him.

McSally’s vile little performance puts the lie to that notion as effectively as anything possibly could.

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AZ's lucky - they can eject this clown and elect a freaking Astronaut!


https://markkelly.com/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I expect the Kelly campaign to use that clip in an ad.

I will be in Arizona for 3 weeks. I will be watching out for it.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Reminds me of Arizona Governor sticking her finger in Obama's face.

Pissed off most of America, but she used it to great effect in fundraising and rallying her base.

Remember, to the Republican electorate, reporters are scum, Enemies of the People.

Just like Jesse Helms' whistling Dixie at a black Senator. Didn't hurt him at all.

Deplorable people think gauche behavior is great.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Well, IMHO, getting these 'rump at all cost' people/supporters to freak out is probably a good...

thing. We all (not just us democrats) actually see these people for what they really are. Wolves at the door, in sheep's clothing, if you will. It's just too bad that they are part of the legislative process, thus hampering good legislation, and the like, based on some half truths and such.

A true shame, as we really do need people in government that will rise above this nonsense and actually govern this great country of ours. Yeah, voices against this or for this type of legislation is of course acceptable, but to mindlessly follow party doctrine, ignoring common human decency? To snap at our press representatives when they ask serious questions? It's all part of the American democracy process. Have they forgotten this?