The GOP is clearly at a breaking point as the tide slowly begins to turn against Trump and the administration. This week Tom Tillis went after Kristi Noem hammer and tongs:
Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.
Yes, Tillis is retiring and yes, this is too little too late, but he did break ranks.
And today we learned that 5 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee voted with all of the committee’s Democrats to bring in Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath. And the Epstein files continue to be a festering wound on the administration, and soon enough there will be no way to contain it.
Trump’s approval rating continues to tank and then there’s the stupid war he started—a war with zero planning and zero anticipation of what is going to happen to the economy. And then the White House’s blasé approach to sending Americans off to die in a war that on the campaign trail Trump said he wouldn’t start. And I wrote about the awful news about the scores of children the Trump administration killed.
As impervious as the weirdos running this country seem, you have got to think that something’s got to give at some point. And then on Wednesday one of the weak points gave way when Tim Sheehy, who is evidently a US senator from Montana (who knew?) broke the arm of a protestor who was at the Capitol. And not just a protestor, but a Marine veteran, Brian McGinnis. I’m not going to post the video here because you can clearly see when his arm breaks.
There was no reason for Sheehy to jump up and get involved, although that’s what he said on his own social media feed. But he appears to be both a violent person and also a profoundly stupid person:
A former Montana park ranger has now publicly accused Tim Sheehy – a Republican running for a US Senate seat in the state – of lying about getting shot while at war in Afghanistan.
In an interview with the Washington Post published on Friday, 67-year-old Kim Peach went on the record about how Sheehy – a former US navy seal – actually shot himself on a family trip in 2015 at Glacier national park. Peach’s account explicitly contradicts Sheehy’s claim that he was shot in the arm during military combat, a story that the Republican candidate has shared throughout his US Senate campaign.
Peach said that Sheehy’s allegedly self-inflicted wound left him with a bullet lodged in his right arm at Glacier national park in Montana’s Rocky Mountains. He told the Post that he first met Sheehy at a hospital in the area of the park during the aftermath of the 2015 episode.
“I remember Sheehy obviously being embarrassed by the situation but at the same time thankful that it wasn’t worse,” Peach said to the Post. There, Sheehy also confirmed to Peach that he had mistakenly shot himself after his firearm discharged in his car.
Peach said he then inspected Sheehy’s gun and observed a bullet casing, confirming the firearm had discharged. That same day, Peach issued Sheehy a $525 fine for discharging a firearm in the national park, according to government records.
Peach also wrote about the case in a 2015 report about the gunshot, writing he was “grateful no other persons or property were damaged”, the Post reported.
Who knows what fresh hell the self-destruction of the GOP will bring in the next few days as the American public increasingly turns on this failing administration.
I’ll leave you with this:
On another message board, I observed how touchy MAGAs and Republicans were while they were getting everything they ever wanted out of the felon’s administration: Cutting the federal work force, leaving the country unable to carry out its duties; uppity citizens getting gunned down in the streets; the “worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants detained in their underwear into freezing cold weather, only to have it turn out that the detainee was in the country legally; billionaires and their little gremlins dismantling agencies and programs; and so on and so forth.
My, my! The responses were . . . spicy.