The ‘Big Lie’ and bigger liars
I keep hearing Republicans are going to annihilate Democrats come November.
Will they?
First, there are lots of Republican candidates who无毛视频檙e still clinging to Donald Trump无毛视频檚 无毛视频淏ig Lie.无毛视频�
If you still don无毛视频檛 know what Trump无毛视频檚 无毛视频淏ig Lie无毛视频� is, I can无毛视频檛 help you.
Let无毛视频檚 just say it has something to do with basic arithmetic.
The 无毛视频淏ig Lie无毛视频� makes 74,216,154 votes more than 81,268,924 votes.
Or that 232 electoral votes are more than 306.
It makes your average third-grader better equipped with basic math than a Pennsylvania state senator, who aspires to occupy the state无毛视频檚 governor无毛视频檚 mansion after November.
Doug Mastriano, though, is certainly not the only Republican running for office these days who is still clinging fast to 无毛视频淭he Big Lie.无毛视频�
There are dozens of them arrayed across the country.
无毛视频淰ote for me. I will always make sure I无毛视频檒l tell you the truth,无毛视频� they无毛视频檒l announce. Then they无毛视频檒l tell the biggest of the 无毛视频淏ig Lies,无毛视频� about Trump 无毛视频渨inning无毛视频� the 2020 presidential election, while they try to convince you that the midterm elections are really about the future.
That无毛视频檚 the twisted logic of more than a hundred Republican candidates for Congress, statehouses, and governorships.
And when they aren无毛视频檛 twisting themselves into human pretzels about their truth-telling inclinations, they无毛视频檙e becoming walking-talking self-contradictions.
Take Glenn Thompson.
He无毛视频檚 the Republican serving the 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania in Congress.
Thompson has a lotta nerve.
He was one of 147 Republicans in the U.S. House to vote against the 无毛视频淩espect for Marriage Act,无毛视频� which would require the U.S. federal government to recognize same-sex marriages in the United States. (The measure easily passed the House by a vote of 267-157)
Thompson无毛视频檚 no vote may have gone unnoticed if it hadn无毛视频檛 been for what took place three days later.
That day, he went to his gay son无毛视频檚 wedding.
So, he voted against gay marriage. Yet, he still solidified his support for gay marriage, when it involved his own son?
That无毛视频檚 the very definition of hypocrisy.
And, by the way, since the bill also has a provision to solidify federal support for interracial marriages, it无毛视频檚 as if Thompson voted against that too.
At least Thompson didn无毛视频檛 cause a spectacle of himself the way Florida无毛视频檚 all-around Republican attack poodle Matt Gaetz has.
Gaetz was one of only 20 members of the House of Representatives to vote against reauthorizing the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act.
The law was designed to give protection to undocumented immigrants who无毛视频檝e become victims of violence and trafficking.
It was first passed into law in 2000. It无毛视频檚 been reauthorized by presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump.
It was reauthorized again last Tuesday, with 401 Republicans and Democrats voting in the affirmative. But not Gaetz, and some of his fellow Republican Trump devotees.
Lauren Boebert (Colorado), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), and Mo Brooks (Alabama) were among them.
But it was Gaetz无毛视频檚 objection that proved to be the most notable of the bunch.
Last year, Gaetz, himself, was placed under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, accused of engaging in sex trafficking with a 17-year-old.
The results of that investigation haven无毛视频檛 been released.
But you无毛视频檇 think that under that kind of scrutiny, he无毛视频檇 come out in support of protections against sex trafficking.
Instead, he无毛视频檚 sounding off about abortions. And a foul sound at that.
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At this point, he was on reasonably firm ground. But Gaetz has a way of, well, going way overboard.
无毛视频淚 find these people who got out and in these pro-abortion pro-murder rallies odious, and just like, ugly on the inside and out. And I make no apology for that,无毛视频� he said.
He could have stopped there. But he didn无毛视频檛.
He was asked, 无毛视频淚s it safe to say that based on your comments, you无毛视频檙e suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?无毛视频�
无毛视频淵es,无毛视频� Gaetz replied.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.