GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert rode her fame as a pistol-packing restaurant owner (photo, left) in Rifle, Colorado, to Congress, where her specialty is being obnoxious (see, e.g., article here). I endorsed her Republican primary opponent (see article here) even before her restaurant poisoned a bunch of peo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Election’
May 20th, 2022 - 11:07 pm § in Politics
No wonder they call him “Doctor Oz”
This guy wants to be a U.S. senator. Fortunately, Pennsylvania voters have an alternative, a down-to-earth guy named John Fetterman. By the way, did he smoke pot before this interview? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 1st, 2022 - 12:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
J. D. Vance goes all-in looneytunes
J. D. Vance (bio here), a rich guy who got famous by writing a book about poor people, wants to be a U.S. senator. Badly. So badly he’s sold out his credibility and dignity in pursuit of a raw ambition that requires him to pander to crazy people. Vance, in his relatively more lucid days, gras[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Joe Crackpot for Congress
Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]
April 1st, 2022 - 11:37 am § in Politics
Do you want crazy people to run elections?
Kristina Karamo’s sole claim to fame is that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. That might be enough to turn her into Michigan’s top elections official. During the 2020 election, when a tumultuous mob tried to force its way into a Detroit elections office, Karamo thou[...]
GOP candidate threatens doctors who refuse to prescribe ivermectin
A GOP candidate for Wisconsin attorney general says she’ll prosecute doctors for murder if they refuse to prescribe ivermectin to dying Covid-19 patients (read story here). Karen Mueller (photo, left), who runs a solo practice in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, also has brought lawsuits against mas[...]
Hawley’s hypocrisy
Eric Greitens (photo, left; profile here), a former governor of Missouri who was forced to resign in disgrace, is trying for a comeback in the 2022 Missouri GOP Senate primary. It doesn’t help that he’s an accused wife-beater, too, and also allegedly smacked the kids around, too (read st[...]
February 1st, 2022 - 5:42 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Schools & Colleges
2/1/22 free speech roundup
Georgetown Law Center, one of America’s top law schools, suspended a newly hired lecturer a day before he was to start work for tweeting that Biden, instead of choosing “the objectively best pick” for the Supreme Court, instead plans to pick “a lesser black woman,” whic[...]
We’re in the silly season now
Election-year campaigns are called the “silly season” because that’s when normally irrational politicians go completely over-the-top bonkers. There’s an election later this year, and we must be in silly season now. Case in point: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a friend of Trump, who[...]
Another GOPer breaks a term limits pledge
Term limits are mostly a Republican thing, and they don’t honor their term limits pledges, so they’re hardly anything at all. “When Sen. Ron Johnson ran for re-election six years ago,” MSNBC says (here), “the Wisconsin Republican made a public commitment: He believed in[...]