Vile Greene, Order & Executive Orders, Public Approval, 2022, GOP Violence

As the scheduled January 6 Capitol riot was preceded by the election, Representative Majorie Taylor Greene explained on video to hesitant right-wingers, that they had to vote, because if they lose the election they will need to join with her in political violence:
The only way you get your freedoms back is it’s earned with the price of blood.

  • Best headline of the week goes to Steve Benen at MSNBC. Steve reports that Republicans are furious that they are not allowed to veto a COVID economic relief package desperately needed by the nation. That fury might strike a reasonable person as weird. The headline is perfect: Republicans outraged by Dems’ willingness to govern without them.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger looks through the polls. Seems the public, by an overwhelming margin is optimistic about President Biden. Also interesting is the approach they would like the Republican Party to take.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever stomps all over The New York Times for their criticism of too many executive orders by our new President. He points out that most of those orders have simply revoked the harmful meanderings of the bigoted mind (guess whose) that disguised themselves as executive orders in the previous administration.
     
    Having brutalized the Times he offers a mitigation of sorts that reminds me of Eugene McCarthy a couple of generations back. McCarthy noted news columns were, by design, rash statements. He suggested that two to three rash statements every week were too much to require from any columnist.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson puts a cautious, Mona Lisa style, happy face on Republican chances in the state’s 2022 Senate race. James links to Sabato’s Crystal Ball, ranking Wisconsin as leans Republican.
     
    Well, maybe. Off-year election and all. But there are some national trends just starting.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil is no fan, nor should we be, of the vile Majorie Taylor Greene. Does she really chase after and harass high school shooting survivors? Well, yes she does. Does she endorse right-wing political violence? Video says uh huh.
     
  • To those preparing for a civil war within the Republican Party, Infidel753 says forget about it. The war is already over. This does give me the opportunity to boast, a sad boast to be sure, about my own observation over a decade ago that the Republican Party was doomed even then.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson describes a national effort to prepare for more violent incidents of domestic terrorism. It is caused by the same extremism taking over the Republican Party.
     
  • In Scotties Toy Box we find some pictures worth thousands, all illustrating the courageous reaction of the GOP to Trump, post officium. Okay, courageous could be the wrong word.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life suggests that the January 6 Trump-riot that killed several police, injured a couple hundred more, took the lives of a few participants, and involved the attempted mass assassination of lawmakers should be more than a flashbulb memory.

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