Yesterday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) announced he would not run for reelection. That announcement came just as The Atlantic published an excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Romney by McKay Coppins in which Romney expressed disgust with his Republican colleagues for feeding Trump’s lies to their voters in exchange for power and acknowledged that “[a] very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”
President Biden is right. I lament again that the media reports every shameful, stupid, criminal, appalling thing the former president and his supporters do and say. Yet, for one of the best president's we've had-crickets, except when they comment about his age.
Once again, HCR, a masterful weaving together in one post of all these appalling developments I've been reading about for a couple of hours, now, over several newspapers.
That last line of President Biden's about the ideal of the nation made me cry, and I'm not a crier:
“We’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it. These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
It's worse than walking away from it. They're trying to blow it up. Today's stories make that even more clear than usual.
A large percentage of people who voted for Trump in 2016, and then again in 2020 simply seek to burn down democratic institutions of the United States in retribution for all they have heard reported by Fox 'News'. Cries of 'government out of my health care' by those depending upon Medicare or Medicaid. Those directed to worry about immigrants taking 'good American jobs' -that no other American would take -back breaking work, exploitation, and abuse in the agricultural farmlands or dangerous exploitative work in meatpacking plants. They are told that a solar farm in Nevada is why gasoline prices are so high (without questioning record profits at Exxon or Chevron -or the billions of taxpayer-funded oil company subsidies). They are told to laugh at the climate hoax while the world burns and floods. They are told that journalists are enemies of the people and they are still anxiously waiting for the Obama administration to 'take their guns'.
These voters, initially driven by Rupert Murdoch and Fox 'News' blame everything and everyone around them for their narrow lives. They have long ago given up on the 'American Dream' and now seek to destroy the few shreds that remain for everyone else -without regard for the impact upon themselves, their families, and their own communities. These voters send incompetent 'D-list' entertainers to Congress like Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, and Jordan (and why not? -they elevated Trump, and prior to that made a President out of a co-star to Bonzo the chimp.)
It is brutally ironic that so many Dreamers and others seek a path to citizenship and what was the American Dream, while so many who gained citizenship simply by being born at the right latitude and longitude seek to burn it all down.
I wonder if Mitt Romney would be willing to testify at Trump's January 6 trial? What Romney related to Mitch McConnell about extreme violence coming to the capital is explosive. It completely debunks the MAGA narrative of J6 being "a peaceful protest that spontaneously got out of control." That attack was as "spontaneous" as a Kardashian plotline.
[[Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has led calls to impeach Biden, told the reporters that she told Trump she wanted the impeachment inquiry to be “long and excruciatingly painful for Joe Biden.” Ultimately, she says, she wants a “long list of names” of those she claims are involved in crimes with the Bidens, and when Trump wins the presidency in 2024, she wants “to go after every single one of them and use the Department of Justice to prosecute them.”]]
These people are Leninists. They just want to burn it all down so that in the ensuing chaos, they can seize absolute power. They are both psychopaths and incredibly stupid. And yet people keep electing them. Racism is a helluva drug.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
“These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
Sounds to me like the ‘Pubbies are now supporters of gun control. Look at the charges against Hunter Biden. Two counts of lying on a firearms application and being a drug addict. One count of being a drug addict in possession of a firearm. Never mind he owned said firearm for all of 11 days, never put any ammo in it or fired it.
Sounds like gun control to me.
And then there’s the case of Kyle Rittenhouse. In possession of weapons while underage, carrying those weapons across state lines, murdering 2 people—one of whom was mentally ill, the other was threatening him with a skateboard.
But what do I know? I’m just a simple girl from the country.
This column is part of what appears to be shift toward recognizing and publicizing Joe Biden's extraordinary accomplishments and the Republicans' despicable approach to dealing with America's public policy toward what are, to me, inexplicable goals. Every reporter. Every columnist. Every leader of the media in the country has to choose between a false even-handedness and integrity as they report in the run up to the election. That choice will chart the direction of the country. If they choose integrity, they will follow Heather Cox Richardson's lead.
I am sorry that Mitt Romney is walking away, but I don't blame him. When the majority of party succumbed to trump's fascism in pursuit of power, the Republican Party of Lincoln died. I am also sorry that Hunter Biden turned to drugs and wealth to prop up his sagging ego, but Hunter is 53 years old, hardly a child. President Biden has neither legal, nor moral responsibility for his son's behavior. I hope when all this mess is behind us Hunter can receive the mental health treatment he so obviously needs.
As to the trumpian maggots in the House of Representatives, their stupid ploy of impeaching President Biden on spurious charges with NO evidence is such a waste of taxpayer dollars and time that could be better put to working for the American public as they were elected to do. I still wish we could sue them for all the wasted taxpayer money.
I'd love to throw Gaetz and Greene into a Florida swamp and let gators do what gators do, but those two are so saturated with the toxic waste of MAGA even gators would spit them out.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
“These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
Those are the words of our doddering President. It would be nice if we all were so doddering at his age; indeed, at any age.
Republicans are out of ideas, empathy, and ethics. It is incumbent upon us all to do what Chesley Sullenberger III urged; please watch this clip:
So we'll get a book of puffery on Mitt Romney. Sorry, I'm not buying it. My father had no use for Mitt's father when he was governor of Michigan (I grew up there) and I had no use, years later, for Mitt when he became governor of Massachusetts. Yes, he had the courage to stand up to Trump while all of his Republican colleagues in the Senate cowered in fear. That only makes clearer the depths to which the Republican party has sunk - to the point where doing the right thing elevates you to the top of their dung heap: the dung heap is still there.
Interesting that Romney’s book came out 9/12, the day after the 9/11/2012 anniversary of his launching his verbal bomb at Obama and Hillary Clinton about Benghazi. It’s important that he calls out his Republican colleagues, but it’s also important to remember his role in contributing to their behavior.
I woke up just a little while ago feeling so sad for the President. He must be so devastated about what is happening to his son. Yet somehow he keeps getting up everyday and doing what he believes is right for Americans. I can’t believe his resilience in the face of such terrible malice. I am not surprised that Senator Romney is not running again. He was our governor and although I did not vote for him, I always thought he was a good person and a competent leader. I fear that very soon, good, decent people will no longer run for office and we will lose our republic and end up like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans have been playing a very long game to take over America and tonight I feel they are winning.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
Yeah! Right on, Mr President! What you're quoting there is the American Creed, the justification for our very existence as a nation and the source of our strength.
September 14, 2023
President Biden is right. I lament again that the media reports every shameful, stupid, criminal, appalling thing the former president and his supporters do and say. Yet, for one of the best president's we've had-crickets, except when they comment about his age.
Once again, HCR, a masterful weaving together in one post of all these appalling developments I've been reading about for a couple of hours, now, over several newspapers.
That last line of President Biden's about the ideal of the nation made me cry, and I'm not a crier:
“We’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it. These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
It's worse than walking away from it. They're trying to blow it up. Today's stories make that even more clear than usual.
A large percentage of people who voted for Trump in 2016, and then again in 2020 simply seek to burn down democratic institutions of the United States in retribution for all they have heard reported by Fox 'News'. Cries of 'government out of my health care' by those depending upon Medicare or Medicaid. Those directed to worry about immigrants taking 'good American jobs' -that no other American would take -back breaking work, exploitation, and abuse in the agricultural farmlands or dangerous exploitative work in meatpacking plants. They are told that a solar farm in Nevada is why gasoline prices are so high (without questioning record profits at Exxon or Chevron -or the billions of taxpayer-funded oil company subsidies). They are told to laugh at the climate hoax while the world burns and floods. They are told that journalists are enemies of the people and they are still anxiously waiting for the Obama administration to 'take their guns'.
These voters, initially driven by Rupert Murdoch and Fox 'News' blame everything and everyone around them for their narrow lives. They have long ago given up on the 'American Dream' and now seek to destroy the few shreds that remain for everyone else -without regard for the impact upon themselves, their families, and their own communities. These voters send incompetent 'D-list' entertainers to Congress like Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, and Jordan (and why not? -they elevated Trump, and prior to that made a President out of a co-star to Bonzo the chimp.)
It is brutally ironic that so many Dreamers and others seek a path to citizenship and what was the American Dream, while so many who gained citizenship simply by being born at the right latitude and longitude seek to burn it all down.
I wonder if Mitt Romney would be willing to testify at Trump's January 6 trial? What Romney related to Mitch McConnell about extreme violence coming to the capital is explosive. It completely debunks the MAGA narrative of J6 being "a peaceful protest that spontaneously got out of control." That attack was as "spontaneous" as a Kardashian plotline.
[[Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has led calls to impeach Biden, told the reporters that she told Trump she wanted the impeachment inquiry to be “long and excruciatingly painful for Joe Biden.” Ultimately, she says, she wants a “long list of names” of those she claims are involved in crimes with the Bidens, and when Trump wins the presidency in 2024, she wants “to go after every single one of them and use the Department of Justice to prosecute them.”]]
These people are Leninists. They just want to burn it all down so that in the ensuing chaos, they can seize absolute power. They are both psychopaths and incredibly stupid. And yet people keep electing them. Racism is a helluva drug.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
“These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
HCR has been panning for gold.
Sounds to me like the ‘Pubbies are now supporters of gun control. Look at the charges against Hunter Biden. Two counts of lying on a firearms application and being a drug addict. One count of being a drug addict in possession of a firearm. Never mind he owned said firearm for all of 11 days, never put any ammo in it or fired it.
Sounds like gun control to me.
And then there’s the case of Kyle Rittenhouse. In possession of weapons while underage, carrying those weapons across state lines, murdering 2 people—one of whom was mentally ill, the other was threatening him with a skateboard.
But what do I know? I’m just a simple girl from the country.
This column is part of what appears to be shift toward recognizing and publicizing Joe Biden's extraordinary accomplishments and the Republicans' despicable approach to dealing with America's public policy toward what are, to me, inexplicable goals. Every reporter. Every columnist. Every leader of the media in the country has to choose between a false even-handedness and integrity as they report in the run up to the election. That choice will chart the direction of the country. If they choose integrity, they will follow Heather Cox Richardson's lead.
I am sorry that Mitt Romney is walking away, but I don't blame him. When the majority of party succumbed to trump's fascism in pursuit of power, the Republican Party of Lincoln died. I am also sorry that Hunter Biden turned to drugs and wealth to prop up his sagging ego, but Hunter is 53 years old, hardly a child. President Biden has neither legal, nor moral responsibility for his son's behavior. I hope when all this mess is behind us Hunter can receive the mental health treatment he so obviously needs.
As to the trumpian maggots in the House of Representatives, their stupid ploy of impeaching President Biden on spurious charges with NO evidence is such a waste of taxpayer dollars and time that could be better put to working for the American public as they were elected to do. I still wish we could sue them for all the wasted taxpayer money.
I'd love to throw Gaetz and Greene into a Florida swamp and let gators do what gators do, but those two are so saturated with the toxic waste of MAGA even gators would spit them out.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
“These other guys are trying to walk away from it.”
Those are the words of our doddering President. It would be nice if we all were so doddering at his age; indeed, at any age.
Republicans are out of ideas, empathy, and ethics. It is incumbent upon us all to do what Chesley Sullenberger III urged; please watch this clip:
https://youtu.be/9mzcW0zUSKg?si=q7BjdEbgby6yr-PA
So we'll get a book of puffery on Mitt Romney. Sorry, I'm not buying it. My father had no use for Mitt's father when he was governor of Michigan (I grew up there) and I had no use, years later, for Mitt when he became governor of Massachusetts. Yes, he had the courage to stand up to Trump while all of his Republican colleagues in the Senate cowered in fear. That only makes clearer the depths to which the Republican party has sunk - to the point where doing the right thing elevates you to the top of their dung heap: the dung heap is still there.
“McConnell never answered.”
Not a mumbling word. Just awful.
Interesting that Romney’s book came out 9/12, the day after the 9/11/2012 anniversary of his launching his verbal bomb at Obama and Hillary Clinton about Benghazi. It’s important that he calls out his Republican colleagues, but it’s also important to remember his role in contributing to their behavior.
I woke up just a little while ago feeling so sad for the President. He must be so devastated about what is happening to his son. Yet somehow he keeps getting up everyday and doing what he believes is right for Americans. I can’t believe his resilience in the face of such terrible malice. I am not surprised that Senator Romney is not running again. He was our governor and although I did not vote for him, I always thought he was a good person and a competent leader. I fear that very soon, good, decent people will no longer run for office and we will lose our republic and end up like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans have been playing a very long game to take over America and tonight I feel they are winning.
“We’re the only nation based on an idea—an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Look,” Biden said, “we’ve never fully lived up to it,’’ but “[w]e’ve never walked away from it.”
Yeah! Right on, Mr President! What you're quoting there is the American Creed, the justification for our very existence as a nation and the source of our strength.