That’s what Republicans are like now, and you have to expect it, ever since Trump gave them permission to do it. What am I talking about? Well, a lot of incidents, but the latest one is this: “Nebraska Republican state Sen. Julie Slama said she was ‘in shock’ when Donald Tru[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
April 11th, 2022 - 9:49 pm § in Politics
GOP senate candidate lied on his resume
Herschel Walker, the GOP frontrunner in Georgia’s Senate primary, spent years claiming he was a high school valedictorian and graduated from the University of Georgia in the “top 1%” of his college class. The ex-NFL player was lying. He wasn’t a valedictorian, and he didnR[...]
April 10th, 2022 - 3:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
The big squeeze
Mark Brnovich (photo, left) is Arizona’s ambitious GOP attorney general who badly wants to be a U.S. senator. To get there he has to suck up to Trump’s fans, which requires sucking up to Trump, who wants him to produce “evidence” that Trump won Arizona in 2020. The official v[...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 2:21 pm § in Politics
“Decertifiers” are defrauding GOP primary voters
I won’t touch fundraising or money issues here. This article is about swindling Republican primary voters out of their votes by promising to repeal the 2020 presidential election. In my book, that’s like eBay seller fraud. For example, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), who’s challenging Georg[...]
March 22nd, 2022 - 5:52 pm § in Politics
McConnell waffles on GOP accused wife-beater
GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell either can’t decide, or doesn’t want to say, whether a Republican candidate accused of physically abusing his wife and children should drop out of Missouri’s 2022 Senate race. “Well look I think all of the developments of the last 24 hours ar[...]
March 18th, 2022 - 10:44 pm § in Politics
“Hillbilly Elegy” author trailing in Ohio Senate polls
J. D. Vance (profile here), the Tucker Carlson-endorsed candidate in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, is struggling in polls. Meanwhile, the frontrunners nearly came to blows at a debate (story here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 18th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in Politics
Meet California’s next (?) secretary of state
Probably not. But in the category of “this is a free country, and anyone can run for anything,” this one’s a doozy. Meet the candidate in the video below. Go here for a short video in which she explains why and how she decided to run. Go here to find out what elections would be [&h[...]
March 1st, 2022 - 1:33 am § in Politics
Sen. Patty Murray will be re-elected; who’ll be the GOP human sacrifice this time?
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) will be 72 when she’s re-elected in November 2022. This will be her 6th term; she’s been a senator since January 1993. Her GOP opponent will get ±42% of the statewide vote. Republicans have thrown every big name they have at her. Dino Rossi, who narrowly missed [...]
February 28th, 2022 - 4:29 pm § in Politics
These Republicans have no class
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, and his wife and daughter “were accosted and threatened at a Las Vegas restaurant on Sunday by at least two men who shouted racial and anti-government epithets at them,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday, February 28, 2022 (see story a[...]
The underbelly of democracy
I forget who said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” (Churchill?) Democracy does have weaknesses. For one thing, it depends on consent of the governed, a potential for chaos (as we saw in 1861-1865) that doesn’t exist in, say, North Korea (a ve[...]