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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Missouri's Senator Blunt Takes a Deserved, Fair, Earned Beating at Daily Kos Today

Yes, it's a brutal write up on Missouri's Senator Roy Blunt today over at the Daily Kos but really, with him making excuses for this Republican Party President Trump of theirs and his denying our vote, our votes, our election and Democracy.....  Well... What can I say but he earned it all? And it's fair. Very fair. And yes, deserved.

Just a bit from the article today but I really recommend all voting Missourians read the entire piece at Kos.

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is a coward. Sen. Blunt has a storied career of being absent from the job he reportedly has as a senator in the United States Congress. In a Senate run by arguably the least legislative senator ever, Mitch McConnell, Blunt stands out in his sheer cowardly laziness. This has made it considerably less surprising to watch Sen. Blunt, over the past couple of weeks, do the Republican anti-Democracy dance of first vaguely insinuating that there is voter fraud that rigged the national election, and then outright pushing the theory that the outcome of the election was in doubt. The best that can be said about Blunt is that he’s a good bellwether for telling you what talking points the Republican leadership has passed down to its underlings—or hasn’t. He’s a coward.

On Sunday, as the worm has turned and the almost forty cases Trump and his band of Keystone fascists have lost or had thrown out in court settles in, Blunt and friends went on the Sunday shows to tell America that they were still technically acting like democratically elected representatives. They also wanted to remind their base that our election system might need to be rigged more for the minority of Americans in the Republican Party. Especially if all of these Black and Asian and Latino people are going to come out and vote!

Host Dana Bash began by trying to see if Sen. Blunt might join the meager trickle of GOP officials recognizing that President-elect Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election against one term white supremacist executive Donald Trump. Blunt began by not acknowledging that, but reporting that “well, we are certainly moving forward as if that what is going to happen on January the 20th.” He then attempted to soften the Trump administration’s withholding of the transition funds by remarking that it “is a relatively new thing in American government that the elected president would have to have government money to make their transition is available.”

Sen. Roy Blunt basically reported what has only recently begun to happen. Sen. Roy Blunt said nothing. He then went on to argue that the semantics of calling Biden the victor or the “President-elect” are all just words...

As I said, it's brutal...but it's fair. And I say again, it's earned. And deserved.

Thanks, Senator Blunt! Thanks for standing up for us! And our vote! And votes! And election! And Democracy! Heck, for that matter, for decency and truth.

Not.


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