Republicans behaving badly

[sugar magnolia]

https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news ... 732482007/

Just toss your political career, freedom, and job down the toilet.

[RTH10260]

And get a bleak retirement home in return too also...

[Dr. Ken]

Democrats seriously failed to do basic Opposition research on this seat that they should have won. Almost everything about George Santos' background was a complete fabrication including his degree, his charity, his work at citigroup and goldman sachs


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyre ... ticleShare

[RTH10260]

a Manchurian candidate?

[raison de arizona]

wtf happened in ny, somebody fell asleep at the wheel with all the flips there

[p0rtia]

wtf happened in ny, somebody fell asleep at the wheel with all the flips there

I've read a couple of articles and listened to a podcast about the utter fail of NY Dem machine*. The loss of those four seats is just stupid. Did. Not. Have. To. Happen.

And now this.

[Dr. Ken]

[AndyinPA]

Not exactly on topic.

[Dr. Ken]

Not exactly on topic.

The quote is also Victor Hugo and not Churchill

[Slim Cognito]

Life imitates an Eddie Murphy movie.

► Show Spoiler

(the Distinguished Gentleman)

[Ben-Prime]

Life imitates an Eddie Murphy movie.

► Show Spoiler

(the Distinguished Gentleman)

Did he run on pure name recognition?

[Phoenix520]

(This topic should be changed to ‘Republicans’. The rest is just assumed, n’est ce pas?)

[noblepa]

His reply seems to be "Its the left's fault. If they hadn't exposed my lies, no one would have known about them."

His statement does not refute any of the things that the failing New York Times wrote about him. Instead, his lawyer called the reports "defamatory". A lawyer should know that a statement is NOT defamatory if it is true. All he had to do, to cast doubt on the NYT story was to provide evidence that even one of the accusations was false, but he did not.

[Dr. Ken]

[AndyinPA]

I like it.

[Kendra]

28 Republicans voted against this

[AndyinPA]

I see most of the usual suspects are there.

[Kendra]

Sen. Roger Marshall says on Fox Business he didn't attend Zelenskyy's speech last night because ... it's, uh, disrespectful to the Border Patrol? What?

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Great opinion piece by Dartagnan.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... l-security

GOP betrays the country by endorsing a failed coup, yet wants to lecture Biden on national security?

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but historically those who’ve sanctioned and supported domestic rebellion against the United States government have not been allowed a public platform in government to continue spreading their policy views to a wider audience. Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason following the Civil War with Congress even going so far as to impanel a jury for his prosecution, and he remained under indictment until President Andrew Johnson issued a general amnesty in 1868. Afterwards he remained popular in the defeated South, contributing to the deliberate falsification of the war’s origins that eventually became enshrined by the heirs of the Confederacy as the “Lost Cause.” But his participation in the legitimate U.S. machinery of government was understood to be forfeit.

And those who don’t actively incite insurrection but otherwise betray their country aren’t afforded any deference in matters of national security either. Aldrich Ames, the former CIA case officer who chose to work for the Soviet Union, disclosing the names of both U.S. officers and Russian sources and thus directly causing their deaths at the hands of the KGB, is not, as far as I am aware, regularly consulted on foreign policy matters by the State Department. John Anthony Walker Jr., who sold inside information about our country’s nuclear submarine capabilities to the Soviets, was not thereafter permitted to critique our nation’s naval tactics at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Yet somehow the incoming Republican Congress—the majority of whom on Jan. 6, 2021, voted to illegally disenfranchise the majority of the American electorate; several of whom have voiced or lent their support to groups planning armed rebellion against our democratic government; and still more who have made common cause with those who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6—seem to believe it still has some legitimate standing to criticize the current administration on matters of national security. For example, the newly elected Republican House majority has vowed to conduct investigative hearings about the process by which President Joe Biden ended our two-decade involvement in Afghanistan. Some of the very same voices involved in supporting and spreading Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that resulted in the Jan. 6 insurrection seem to believe that their criticism of President Biden’s manner of withdrawal of troops from the Afghanistan theater merits serious consideration by the American public. All of those harboring this astonishing misconception are, unsurprisingly, members of the Republican Party.

But they are grievously mistaken. By willfully aiding and abetting an attempted coup aimed at usurping a legitimately elected U.S. president—and thus attempting to overthrow a legitimately elected U.S. government—current Republicans have quite simply forfeited any standing they once may have had to criticize that president on any matter affecting this nation’s security. Not only have they forfeited that right, but any attempt by them to assert it—in staged, circus-like “hearings” or otherwise—should be met with the complete scorn it deserves.

[bob]

Times-Union: Rensselaer County elections commissioner pleading guilty to federal criminal charges:

Jason T. Schofield was arrested in September by the FBI on a nine-page indictment charging him with fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots

Jason T. Schofield, Rensselaer County's Republican elections commissioner, is scheduled to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in January in connection with an ongoing investigation of voter fraud by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Schofield's scheduled guilty plea to felony charges on Jan. 11 would mark the second conviction in the federal investigation that's being spearheaded by the FBI and has focused on the harvesting of absentee ballots in elections over the past two years. A source close to the case said Schofield's plea agreement includes a pledge to cooperate in the wide-ranging investigation that has also examined the use of county resources and employees to gather absentee ballots.

* * *
Schofield was arrested in September outside his residence by the FBI on charges detailed in a nine-page indictment accusing him of fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots using the personal information of at least eight voters without their permission.

* * *

The federal grand jury probe being handled by the FBI and U.S. attorney's office led to the guilty plea of a former Troy city councilwoman, Kimberly Ashe-McPherson, a 61-year-old Republican who had been a councilwoman in North Troy for more than seven years. She pleaded guilty in June to fraudulently submitting absentee ballots in last year's primary and general elections as she sought re-election to the City Council. She subsequently resigned from public office.

Somebody tell D'Sounza the feebs caught a mule! (Two mules!)

[MN-Skeptic]

Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers’ homes

A failed Republican state legislative candidate who authorities say was angry over losing the election last November and made baseless claims that the election was “rigged” against him was arrested Monday in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico’s largest city.

Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina held a news conference Monday evening hours after SWAT officers arrested Solomon Pena at his home.

Medina described Pena as the “mastermind” of what appears to be a politically-motivated criminal conspiracy leading to four shootings at or near the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators between early December and early January.

Pena was defeated in November by incumbent state Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, the longtime Democrat representing House District 14 in the South Valley.

Police said Pena, an election denier, had approached county and state lawmakers after his loss claiming the contest had been rigged against him despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in New Mexico in 2020 or 2022. The shootings began shortly after those conversations.

New Mexico’s state Canvassing Board unanimously certified the results of the November election.

Because the article is short, I've included the whole thing.

[northland10]

Love the quality candidates:

https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solo ... homes.html

Pena’s candidacy came under scrutiny over the summer when his opponent, Rep. Miguel P. Garcia, D-Albuquerque, filed a court challenge to disqualify him because he had been convicted in 2008 of stealing large amounts of goods from several big box retail stores in a reported “smash and grab” scheme.

Pena served nearly seven years in prison.

In September, 2nd Judicial District Judge Joshua Allison ruled that a state law barring felons from holding office unless they are pardoned by the governor is unconstitutional so Pena remained on the ballot.

Less than two months later Pena lost the November election by more than 3,600 votes — garnering 2,033 votes to Garcia’s 5,679.

He may have been at Jan 6 as well.

In various years, the incumbent Garcia has run uncontested.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Hubby loves this quote from Pena regarding Pena's smash and grab history:

“You can’t hide from your own history,” Peña told the outlet in September. “I had nothing more than a desire to improve my lot in life.”

[realist]

Was following that story yesterday. Unbelievable.

Thanks, Trump.

[AndyinPA]

Was following that story yesterday. Unbelievable.

Thanks, Trump.

He's an election-denying trumper.