If the diagnosis fits From Hullabaloo’s earliest days, Digby has attributed juvenile behavior on the part of the GOP’s most unwanted to an epidemic of arrested development. “Maybe the only thing we need to know about Trump and his followers is that they are all suffering from arrested development. It really could be just that simple,” she wrote in 2015 as the Trump train picked up steam. One suspects that cultural historians will explain the last couple of decades as a period of mass cultural insanity (my expectation). In the end, Digby’s arrested development take may be more accurate. Speaking of arrested devlopment, if you missed the crackup on the set of Deadline White House on Wednesday (at MTG’s expense), it’s in the first minute. Enjoy.
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Sarah Sanders acted like Trumpie didn’t exist and turned that hokey secret Iraq trip into a story about her. It didn’t go over well with some of the MAGAs: Prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Sanders, who served as Trump’s White House press secretary, delivered a rebuttal to the president’s speech that largely focused on Republican culture war issues and accused Biden of surrendering his presidency to a “woke mob that can’t even tell you what a woman is.” “Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace, but we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn’t start and never wanted to fight. Every day, we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols, all while big government colludes with Big Tech to strip away the most American thing there is—your freedom of speech. That’s not normal.
James O’Keefe wants to be the next … Robert Preston? Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe has always been a little bit nuts. But now his own organization has turned on him, and he’s reportedly taking a break from being a dirty trickster for a while. The staff has produced a memo to the board saying that he’s abusive and crude (you don’t say!) and that donors are sick of his antics. Apparently, he’s been spending money like a drunken sailor. All of this is par for the course for a standard right wing grifter, which he is (among other things) but I have to admit that this surprised me: The memo’s authors also raised concerns about O’Keefe’s use of Project Veritas money to promote his own theatrical ambitions. Project Veritas is best known for its undercover stings against Democratic groups and other Republican targets. But O’Keefe, who performed in high-school musicals, has added a series of musical productions to the group’s repertoire, including an elaborate “Project Veritas” experience that involves O’Keefe dancing while wearing a bulletproof vest.
For some reason the new “weaponization committee” called Tulsi Gabbard, Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and Jamie Raskin as their first witnesses. You can imagine how the first three testified. It was the predictable shit show. But Raskin was magnificent. This is how you do it: Fox didn’t show this? How interesting. I wonder why?
They are on track to destroy Social Security and medicare so the Republicans don’t have to Mark Joseph Stern at Slate brings the bad news: During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden criticized Republicans for proposing to “sunset” Medicare and Social Security every five years. In response, many Republican lawmakers booed the president, prompting him to quip, “So, folks, as we all apparently agree: Social Security and Medicare is off the books now.” Perhaps these Republicans really do disagree with a plan put forth by a member of their leadership mandating periodic expiration of popular entitlement spending. But at least some of their judges are all for it—and want to transform the idea into constitution law. Recently, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals crafted a theory that would empower courts to strike down mandatory spending on federal programs, compelling Congress to either reappropriate the money or let the programs die.
They never learn I think this is the real Dark Brandon super-power. Everyone always thinks he’s a doddering fool and when he turns out not to be they are completely unprepared: Since the 2020 Democratic primary, Biden’s secret weapon has been the low expectations set for him by his opponents. Rather than approach him as the flawed but formidable politician that he is, Biden’s critics on the left and right have consistently presented him as a befuddled individual who is unable to finish his sentences. They have cocooned themselves in clips of his gaffes, both real and fabricated, and convinced themselves that the Biden they see in their social-media bubble is the Biden that exists in actuality. The only problem with this caricature is that it does not survive contact with reality. It’s true that at 80 years old, Biden is no longer as adept an operator as he once was. He speaks slower and struggles more to control his stutter. And of course, he has been prone to comical verbal stumbles his entire career. But Biden’s experience working a crowd, his empathetic human touch, and his sense of humor remain intact.
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Biden’s State of the Union address was a triumph Last weekend Donald Trump gave a speech in South Carolina where he announced his state leadership team. Among them was Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, whom he introduced by saying: A friend of mine — that voice, that voice was so beautiful as he called it out in Congress, Congressman Joe Wilson. That was done from the heart, that was — I don’t know if you know or not but at the time people loved you for that because it showed honesty, dedication and the love of your country, right? He was referring to Wilson’s notorious outburst at the 2009 State of the Union address in which he shouted “you lie” at Barack Obama when the former president denied that his health care plan would cover undocumented immigrants. (It was not a lie.) The pundits all called for the smelling salts and Wilson was later reprimanded by Congress and subsequently issued an apology. At the time, it was a shocking breach of decorum that stunned the nation.
It was very, very bad. When she wasn’t talking about herself she was casting very ugly aspersions on her political rivals and then telling an interminable story about flying to Iraq on Christmas without ever saying Donald Trump’s name. These speeches are almost always bad but this one was for the books. Here’s how it started: Trump had a rebuttal too. Oy vey: This video campaign of his is bizarre. The dilated pupils (which appear in all of them) are very suspicious. Maybe it’s just the lighting or something but they’re weird. I think he and Huckasanders are pretty representative of the GOP in general. And that’s frightening.