Tax The Rich

And anyone paying attention knows I’m no AOC fan, but Paul Gosar is a dick. 

A good WaPo piece from Jennifer Rubin from yesterday about countering GQP lies.

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The more fervently the GOP leadership rises to Trump’s defense and attacks truth-tellers such as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the more they reestablish his dominance as the driving force behind the party. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Cheney wisely cautioned, “I think the only way the Republican Party can go forward in strength is if we reject the lie, if we reject what happened on Jan. 6, if we reject the efforts that President Trump made, frankly, to steal the election.” For such sage counsel, her party has practically excommunicated her.

While the media marvel at Youngkin’s finesse in keeping Trump hidden from view, Republicans who continue to tie themselves not only to Trump personally but to his anti-democratic, vaccine-skeptical and virulent anti-immigrant messaging should consider how they will win over non-MAGA voters in 2022. Freshmen Republican House members posing as practical moderates who flipped seats from blue to red in 2020 might find the balancing act especially tricky.
If Democrats are smart, they will present midterm voters not only with a record of success but with a question: Do they reallywant to be governed by MAGA Republicans who routinely gaslight voters, undermine elections, wink at violence, demonize immigrants, operate in a fact-free universe and incite white grievance?

And one from a couple days ago.

There are many factors that may have played a role in the Virginia governor’s race — President Biden’s current political woes, a less-than-scintillating Democratic candidate, the Republican’s phony critical race theory ploy or some combination of these. Whatever the precise explanation, Democrats are playing defense — and not effectively — when it comes to Republican rhetoric on race and education.

This week, deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierreshowedhow to start fighting back against Republicans’ contradictory and deceptive stance.

Asked about critical race theory in the Virginia contest on Thursday, she began with a full-throated defense of accurate history in instruction: “So, look, America, as you heard the president say before, is a great country,” she said. “And great countries are honest, right? They have to be honest with themselves about the history, which is good and the bad. And our kids should be proud to be Americans after learning that history.”

Democrats, Jean-Pierre explained, have allowed themselves to be painted as teaching the “bad” stuff about America. She correctly framed the issue as teaching kids to be proud about overcoming our challenges. Eliminating the story of individual and collective struggles to form a more perfect union is not only disinformation, but also unpatriotic.

Jean-Pierre then made an argument Republicans used to invoke: “Fundamentally, we believe a school’s curriculum isn’t a federal decision. It’s rightly up to communities around the country — the parents, the school, the school board, the teachers and the administrators. And that means that politicians … should not be dictating what our kids are being taught.”

Jean-Pierre next pivoted to offense, with a much-deserved takedown of Republicans’ blatantly dishonest rhetoric. She declared that when it comes to nonexistent critical race theory instruction, “Republicans are lying. They’re not being honest. … And they’re cynically trying to use our kids as a political football.” If only every Democrat let Republicans have it with such vigor, we might have a fact-based discussion about education.

Most critically, Jean-Pierre made the case that Republicans are the last people to be lecturing on support for education:
They’re talking about our kids when it’s — when it’s election season, but they won’t vote for them when it matters. You know, Republicans did not vote for the American Rescue Plan. … In that plan, it had funding to make sure that schools were open, to make sure that our kids got back to school. And they didn’t vote for that, and that was a key component of the American Rescue Plan. We know how important it is to make sure that our kids have in-person learning for their mental well-being and also so that they can actually learn. And so that is something that the Republicans refuse — absolutely refuse to vote for.

 
It’s a truism that no matter how deceitful Republicans may be, Democrats cannot afford to ignore voters’ concerns. If voters hear CRT is a real issue or believe Democrats are dismissive of parents’ concern about their children’s education, it’s up to Democrats to push back — forcefully.

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Get it?  Push back. Point out their lies.

And in response to the same piece PrisonerTrump said:

Darwin strikes the stupid in the shallow end of the gene pool again.

Another great one I didn’t think of.