Unlike the Avant-garde return of burlesque with nostalgic shows paying homage to the art form, the Republican party is un-teasingly—un-funny. Watching the GOP reaction to the first of six to eight scheduled or tentative hearings surrounding the unprecedented attempt by a president of the United States to overthrow the government, I kept waiting for a squirting lapel flower or whoopie cushion. Conservative media’s alternative, like most of their policies, teased their naked anti-American partisanship promising an option but delivering a deflating and unsatisfying climax. GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz stooped so low that he posed Democratic Committee member Jamie Raskin was suffering mental stress, affecting his committee performance and overall political judgment after the death of his son.
“No one would ever want to lose a child, particularly to suicide, and as a human being, our hearts go out to him,”Gaetz said of Raskin. “I think that he takes that trauma and he associates it now with his work in the Congress in such an interwoven way that he’s unable to do the Congressional experience outside of the dungeon of that personal trauma.” The Florida Congressman concluded his hypothesizing, [Raskin] “look[s] at everything in these very dark and severe ways” and that it “clouds his judgment,” said Gaetz. “The country shouldn’t have to go through all that with him,” Gaetz maintained.
One might look at Gaetz’s statement as a petty retaliatory move for a scolding he received from Raskin months earlier. Unfortunately, Gaetz was accompanied by straight-woman Marjorie Taylor Greene when he spoke to his unfounded conclusion. Georgia representative Greene has spent most of her time in congress with buffoonish haranguing of colleagues posing with rifles and deciding which QAnon pin goes best with her open-toed sandals. I might sound like I am using snarky language for effect but sometimes, if the snark fits…
Louie Gohmert (R-TX), just a week ago, said, [Republicans]“can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re coming after you.”
Lauren Boebert (R-CO) “I look to my left, and there she is. Ilhan Omar [D-MN]. And I said, ‘Well, she doesn’t have a backpack; we should be fine.’“
Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted and deleted under pressure that the Robb Elementary shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien.”
The frightening part is that simple searches reveal many more quotes by many more members of the GOP. Looking backward and forward, it is not surprising the GOP follows; the clownish Trump, a game show host, adorned in orange makeup and blonde-colored swirled hair— nor is it surprising. If all the divisiveness and incitement were not so serious, the laughable attacks on our venerable democracy would be part of a 1930 burlesque show. Gallingly, the Democrats, are being forced to take part in a display of the obvious and absurd. The parade of Republican operatives dropping their integrity pants before the world is an embarrassing blow to Americanism. Republicans would rather stand in front of a spraying seltzer bottle, punch America in the groin and take a pie to the face rather than admit they are crammed into a phone booth, refusing to take a breath of truth.
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